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Anyone else irked by the rumor or smaller batteries in the iPhone 6s/ 6s Plus?
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24 hours usage....from your phone!
I've got a plus and the best I'll get out of that is 7-8 usage
I wake up in the morning and it's like 40 - 60 percent.24 hours usage....from your phone!
I've got a plus and the best I'll get out of that is 7-8 usage
I don't play games really and I don't do a lot streaming. Its mostly for texting, calls and emails. I'm on wifi most of the time as well (if that matters).
No, it is. The biggest percentage is safari. I surf the internet and watch YouTube basically exclusively on my iPad. I only use my iMac for editing/ production things and games.
I was pretty sad when I heard the rumor. Then I noticed 3200 mAh batteries on Amazon were $11, included a flashlight, and easily fit in my pocket. Less sad now.
Will I be irked if the rumours turn out to be true and they put in a smaller battery? Irked? I'll be bl**dy furious!
I was all set to get a 6s because I thought this might be the point where Apple threw everything that it could at improving battery life and could possibly produce a 6s with the battery life of an existing 6 Plus. If they're actually reducing the battery size by about 5% rather than finding space to increase it by 5-10% (which by the look of some of the leaks they might have been able to do especially if they'd increased the case thickness to hide the rear camera bump) then I don't see them getting battery life figures on the 6s up to the level of the existing 6 Plus.
I'm currently on iPhone 5 and I would like a bigger screen and TouchID. If a rumour on 9to5mac is true that Apple is keeping the iPhone 6 in the line-up as a mid-price offering then, if all that Apple have done on the 6s is keep the same battery life as the 6 rather than significantly improve on it, I'll almost certainly go for a 6 rather than a 6s to save a bit of money ($100?) . If Apple don't keep them in the stores then I could always get a new 6 off eBay for probably a bigger saving. That's how I got my existing 5 a couple of years ago and it's still going strong although the battery is showing its age now.
ForceTouch and better cameras aren't worth an extra $100 to me but another 3 hours on video playback time would be without question, in fact I'd pay quite a bit more than an extra $100 for that. (I read ebooks a lot on my phone which obviously has the screen on all the time so the video playback figure is the one I tend to use as the closest approximation to what I care about most.)
I'm going to vote with my wallet on this one I think. Part of me wants to wait for the iPhone 7 if the smaller 6s battery rumours are true but I really do want a bigger screen and TouchID now so I think I need to buy something in the next few weeks.
The iPhone launches always seem to have a slide in the presentation with the claimed battery life times (standby, talk time, music playback, video playback, WiFi & 3G surfing, etc) and I'm pretty much going to make my buying decision based on that slide as follows...
If the iPhone 6s launch doesn't quote at least +1 hour on video playback (i.e. up from a claimed 11 hours to 12) then I think I'll definitely save money and get a 6 because the 6s would give me no improvement that I care about vs the 6. The speed boost I would see going from a 5 to a 6 would already be huge so I don't need the extra CPU power of a 6s and I don't feel constrained by 1GB of memory.
If the 6s launch quotes +2 hours on video playback (i.e. up from a claimed 11 hours to 13 hours) then I will definitely get a 6s regardless of the underlying battery size although if teardowns did subsequently reveal that it had been reduced I would then be irked rather than furious; irked because I would be left thinking that if only they'd kept the same battery size my money would probably have bought me +3 hours of video playback instead of +2.
If the 6s launch quotes +1 hour improvement on claimed video playback time that would make me think about the price difference between a 6 and a 6s and I might go either way.
So much for a small portable phone that lasts all day.... form over function again from apple!
Or you could buy a Mophie juice pack, double the thickness and weight, or just a crazy thought, apple could just sort the issue and stop the phone bending at the same time.
I'm curious to see how iOS 9's optimizations will help the 6S (Plus). It should be for the better but it's no excuse for yet another smaller battery. The same isn't always better, especially for battery life. We customers expect at least a full day or 2 of moderate usage on a single charge yet we still have to see a mainstream phone that can deliver that.
Over two years that works out to under 14 cents a day. They would have to screw up the 6s a lot for 14 cents a day to matter to me.
Should this be the case, yeah, I'd be pretty irked. My 6, which is now a temporarily overpriced iPod Touch, does not get very good battery life.
I predict that the S version of the 6 and 6+ will have about the same battery life as the current version which is more than enough for most of the people using it. My 6+ has the best battery of any iPhone I have ever had and I am not going to be "irked"
I agree!!
Plus with animated wallpapers, if it has the same battery life you could just not use them and prob get a good bit extra
Size doesn't matter, it's about efficiency. What if 6S uses half the power of the 6? Then your battery life just increased ~90%. Are you still going to cry about battery size?!?
Once again, you're chasing the wrong metric. You're concerned with battery size, when you should be concerned with battery LIFE (which is actually a proxy for POWER).
Once again, you're chasing the wrong metric. You're concerned with battery size, when you should be concerned with battery LIFE (which is actually a proxy for POWER).
The small increased size of the s back casing isn't to hide the camera "bump". That's not even changing. The increase in the case was to strengthen it from bending (along with 7000 series aluminum) and also help fit Force Touch.
The A9 chip is more efficient than the A8, so really battery life will be pretty much identical to current 6 and 6+ for the 6s and 6s+ even with the slightly smaller battery.
The iPad Air 2 reduced the battery from the iPad Air. It was smaller (I believe), and thus, has less battery life than its predecessor. Not by much, but it's still an issue and something that is pretty terrible to do to your customers when battery life is arguably one of, if not the single most important aspect of a portable media device.
If they did it with the iPad, it's possible that it will happen with the 6s.
Battery life is defined as how long the thing lasts until you have to plug it in. It's related to chipset and screen efficiency plus the raw capacity of the battery. Software optimizations help, but there is nothing out there that cures all woes like having a larger capacity battery. Play a game, turn up the brightness, etc and no amount of software optimizations will help as much as having a large battery will help you. If this were a math equation the battery capacity would be the dominant term. If this were a basketball, the saying that you can't teach height is the same as saying having a large capacity battery helps more than anything else.
If the 6s doesn't improve on battery life, and let's face it none of the prior iphones have meaningfully improved....then let's see if they add in quickcharging capability. Usually heading out the door, or in the airport, etc, you might have 15 minutes. If you could get 4 hours of usage this would help greatly in almost all situations. You could use your phone on the train and then charge when getting to the office, fire off the last bit of emails, make a few calls, etc.
If the 6s doesn't improve on battery life, and let's face it none of the prior iphones have meaningfully improved....then let's see if they add in quickcharging capability. Usually heading out the door, or in the airport, etc, you might have 15 minutes. If you could get 4 hours of usage this would help greatly in almost all situations. You could use your phone on the train and then charge when getting to the office, fire off the last bit of emails, make a few calls, etc.
It's so annoying how so many people on here think they know better and jump to conclusions before a device has even been announced. If your knowledge and expertise is so good then why are you not at Apple HQ involved in the development of the next iPhone.
We're all consumers on here, if you like the look of phone(s) they unveil next month then get, if you don't then don't get it, just quit whinging about battery sizes, GB of RAM and protruding cameras, it's so boring now.
We're all consumers on here, if you like the look of phone(s) they unveil next month then get, if you don't then don't get it, just quit whinging about battery sizes, GB of RAM and protruding cameras, it's so boring now.