Apparent Photo of 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Battery Reveals 2,915 mAh Capacity

[Azzin]

Actually, after the 1st year of availability, Apple really took the focus off of iPod Touch being a music player and started pushing it's gaming capabilities. As a gaming device and a bridge to the iPad, 5.5" iPod Touch makes the MOST sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCFy8WrbUo

The iPod is still (and always will be IMO) synonymous with music.

The mobile gaming market may well be crying out for a 5.5" device, but I don't think that Apple would turn the iPod into that device.

Also, I don't personally think that there is a desire for a phablet sized gaming device.

The thing about phones being able to play games at nice resolutions, is that we have our phones with us already, so if it can do games well as well, that's a bonus, as IMO people who play games on their phones do so because they can, not because they necessarily want a gaming device.

If people wanted a mobile gaming device, there's enough PSPs and 3DS's out there to choose from.

But people choose not to, because they'd rather game on the smartphone they already have with them and not have to carry round another seperate device.

That's why the 5.5" iPhone makes sense-it will carry out all of your iPhone duties, alongside great video capabilities and gaming.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

My friend has a droid phone that has 2 days of battery. If this is the actual battery for the 'iPhone 6L" how long would the phone last?

No one but Apple would know. Does the bigger phones burn through battery power more quickly? Does iOS and A8 optimizations sip battery power more efficiently or much more efficiently? Lots of variables influence the answer to the question.

Guess: If this rumor is true, I'm going to guess that the relatively big hop from the previously rumored 2100mAh and 18XXmAh for the 4.7" means Apple is going to take a tangible step to address the "wall hugger" punch (not because of the "wall hugger" commercials as this was probably decided some time ago). If so, good for them and "about time".

Based on who you trust/believe, iPhones appear to have battery life in the middle of the pack per objective evaluations… which can be viewed as quite good considering that some of those ranking above iPhone have upwards of 2X the actual battery inside. If this rumor is true and if the bigger iPhone doesn't have huge energy demands beyond extrapolated expectations, I'd expect this battery paired with iOS and A8 optimizations to maybe let Apple lay (objective) claim to longest battery life of any smart phone on the market.

That would be great. In thread after thread, the apologists keep trying to spin the choices for smaller batteries with iOS and A8 optimizations. While there is some merit to such optimizing, pair those optimizations with a bigger battery and it's all the better. Personally, I'm much enthused about this rumor and hope it proves out in the coming days or weeks.

 

[Milese3]

My friend has a droid phone that has 2 days of battery. If this is the actual battery for the 'iPhone 6L" how long would the phone last?

It all depends on the power efficiency of the processor and display. If Apple go for a display with a resolution of above 1080p, the battery life might not be as impressive.

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The iPod is still (and always will be IMO) synonymous with music.

The mobile gaming market may well be crying out for a 5.5" device, but I don't think that Apple would turn the iPod into that device.

Also, I don't personally think that there is a desire for a phablet sized gaming device.

The thing about phones being able to play games at nice resolutions, is that we have our phones with us already, so if it can do games well as well, that's a bonus, as IMO people who play games on their phones do so because they can, not because they necessarily want a gaming device.

If people wanted a mobile gaming device, there's enough PSPs and 3DS's out there to choose from.

But people choose not to, because they'd rather game on the smartphone they already have with them and not have to carry round another seperate device.

That's why the 5.5" iPhone makes sense-it will carry out all of your iPhone duties, alongside great video capabilities and gaming.

I completely agree. There's already a market for phablets and it's affecting the competition, thus it would make sense for Apple to move into that market, in order to keep sales sturdy.

There is not a market for 5.5" gaming and so it would be a huge gamble, which might not be too profitable.

 

[slagathor001]

It all depends on the power efficiency of the processor and display. If Apple go for a display with a resolution of above 1080p, the battery life might not be as impressive.

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I completely agree. There's already a market for phablets and it's affecting the competition, thus it would make sense for Apple to move into that market, in order to keep sales sturdy.

There is not a market for 5.5" gaming and so it would be a huge gamble, which might not be too profitable.

When I'm at school I need to bring my charger with me or else my phone will end up in the 10-20% area by my last class and usually will die by the time I get home (I'm in community college...)

If droids are lasting 2 days I see no reason why the iPhone can't!

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

If droids are lasting 2 days I see no reason why the iPhone can't!

They can. They just need Apple to decide to take on this particular issue, which is most effectively addressed by iOS and A8 optimization PLUS a bigger, droid-like battery (which doesn't mean iPhone has to fatten up or get brick heavy as evidenced by those same droid phones).

Personally, I don't care so much about how many days they can last as much as can they last through those special scenarios where getting a charge at the usual time is not available.

People spin "buy a battery case" and "carry an extra charger" but the point is to get the stock iPhone's battery life up so that we don't have to pay for and lug along an extra thing. If the Android manufacturers can do it, we know that Apple can do it too. They just need to want to do it.

I'm hopeful this rumor is real and this particular issue might get addressed in a dramatic way.

 

[kalex]

Remember the ads saying Window 8's ability to run Office meant it was superior to an iPad?

you really are comparing apples to oranges here.

Windows 8 (Operating System) being compared to Ipad (Device)

 

[IJ Reilly]

A purported photo of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6's battery

May or may not be a photo. It could be a bowl of oatmeal.

 

[ValO]

I dont think two aspect ratios would be "great for developers"

They still have to go multi res.
They need to keep supporting the iphone 4(s) res of 960x640.

To support the iphone 5.5 that has double the res. is easy, by 1 string of code.

 

[yaxomoxay]

When I'm at school I need to bring my charger with me or else my phone will end up in the 10-20% area by my last class and usually will die by the time I get home (I'm in community college...)

If droids are lasting 2 days I see no reason why the iPhone can't!

Pay more attention to your classwork and less to the phone and your battery will magically lasts a few more hours

lol

 

[castlerock]

It states 11.28 Whr on the battery. It is 2.915 * 3.82 =~ 11.2

Correct. The article mentioned 4.35 V because they didn't read the Chinese on the battery correctly; it clearly states that's the input voltage.

(No I don't read Chinese, but I can put it together that a higher voltage is required to charge the battery than what the battery nominally puts out when fully charged.)

 

[Intelligent]

I know that it's "apparently" the iPhone 6 battery. But is 2915 mah good?.

 

[mdelvecchio]

They must have been reading my posts about the only thing that would make me buy a new iphone on day one... True all day battery life.

how do you define all-day? my phone already gets 24-hours of what I consider moderate use, I charge once a day. it's already rated at 10 hours active use, so what is all day? 24-hours of active use? not likely.

 

[geo1378]

Pay more attention to your classwork and less to the phone and your battery will magically lasts a few more hours

lol

that is true, when in class or work peoples phones should be in airplane mode since most of us cannot take a call or text at work or school. my iPhone 5s gets through a full day on 90% of the days. i went to new york for a couple days though and it did go down to 40% or so a bit over half way through the day using google maps to navigate on foot and yelp and other things. a better battery is always welcome.

 

[geo1378]

I can't wait to find out if the 5.5 inch exists and i really hope it is not delayed by more than a week or two at most after the 4.7. this waiting game and not knowing what is coming sucks. its exciting when the time comes but right now it sucks. i want my damn iPhone 6.

 

[winston1236]

But how do I get the gold battery?

 

[chocolaterabbit]

Based of the size of the battery to the ladies hand it honestly looks like a 4.7 inch phone battery rather than a 5.5 inch. I tried to keep it at a similar distance and same hand position, you can clearly see i didn't edit the size of either photo since i took a pic of the two previews next to each other. If it is an iPhone 6 battery it is prob a 4.7 inch phone battery. Also if anything i held the phone farther rather than closer so that again only proves my point.

Don't forget that the battery is actually smaller than the phone. The iPhone 5 you're holding has a battery that is much smaller in size than the one in the photo.

 

[benamin]

Don't forget that the battery is actually smaller than the phone. The iPhone 5 you're holding has a battery that is much smaller in size than the one in the photo.

That's for sure, go to IFIXIT and watch a 5s battery replacement video. It's about half the size of the phone. I'm not even sure this battery could fit in a 5.5" phone, but I'm hoping.

 

[zipa]

i dont understand people like him. You dont see me bitching about Samsung on a Samsung related Website.

It is nice to hear that you don't have any issues with your Samsung devices, but where should one discuss Apple products if not on an Apple forum?

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I always find it mental people are looking for such high pixel densities on phones when physics tells you that you can't possibly perceive any difference

Physics and empirical experiments tell you that basically everyone can see the difference up to 500 dpi and most people with normal visual acuity can tell the difference with 500 and 1000 dpi as well.

So yeah, if we could stop with the Apple "retina" marketing nonsense, that would be great. OK?

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I agree.

2560x1440 is a marketing gimmick with no real purpose in a phone, plus it chews up through the battery life.

There is no "upper limit" for resolution. More == better, albeit after 500 dpi or so the improvements start to become less and less important. Still, higher resolution means that more information can be presented. Text can be made smaller, yet remain readable, curves become smoother, gradients flow nicer. Everything is nicer to look at with improved resolution.

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They still have to go multi res.
They need to keep supporting the iphone 4(s) res of 960x640.

To support the iphone 5.5 that has double the res. is easy, by 1 string of code.

If you take your app from a 4" screen to a 5.5" screen by just doing nothing at all, you deserve to be slapped in the face with a big, ripe trout. People do not buy big screen phones just so they can have the same apps, only four times bigger.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I know that it's "apparently" the iPhone 6 battery. But is 2915 mah good?.

There's no solid answer because "good" would be influenced by how power hungry the iPhone would be.

On a relative basis, some of the longer-battery-life Android phones have batteries around this same mAh level. So if we take our usual Apple hardware & software superiority stance and Apple builds in a battery with a mAh spec that is fairly toe-to-toe with similar-sized Androids, we could jump to a conclusion that Apple has decided to thrash the "wall hugger" implication, which would only be a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Relative to iPhones like 5s, it's a much higher capacity battery, close to what people can get by putting an iPhone inside a good battery case. So if iOS and A8 optimizations can make a bigger screen phone sip power at about the same level of the 5s, battery life should be significantly (noticeably) improved.

Until this rumor, the fear was that the battery in the other thread might be the iPhone 6 battery. That one is not much bigger than the 5s battery, so the perception was the old "thinnest iPhone ever" with "about the same battery life". Now there's tangible hope that Apple might be directly addressing battery life beyond the usual efforts to be more power miserly with iOS and A-chip optimizations.

 

[bushido]

It is nice to hear that you don't have any issues with your Samsung devices, but where should one discuss Apple products if not on an Apple forum?

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huh? i dont have a samsung thats why im not gonna go on a samsung board and be like "galaxy sucks" in every other threat like he does. that was my point

 

[Armen]

I do not think we will see a 5.5" iPhone 6 because:

- More than 50% of smartphones sold in Q1 were under 5" in screen size.

- The 5.5" Phablet crowd only makes up 10% of the marketshare.

- If Apple is not willing to release a cheap iphone to capture the Asian market why would it bother with efforts to try and secure only a 10% share of the phablet crowd?

Contrary to popular belief people are not trampling each other to get huge phones. They really are not as popular as people seem to think.

Given the numbers below Apple will put itself in a strong position with a 4.7" iPhone.

 

[jimbo1mcm]

Was it Phil Schiller who said, " people want what we don't have"? There is a huge Asian market that likes LARGE phones. Apple will make a 5.5.

 

[Armen]

Was it Phil Schiller who said, " people want what we don't have"? There is a huge Asian market that likes LARGE phones. Apple will make a 5.5.

10% is a huge market?

 

[subjonas]

it willbe called the iPad Nano.

I don’t think it can be called ‘iPad Nano’ because that would imply that it runs iPad apps. iPad Mini is the smallest screen size that can run iPad apps before the touch targets start to become too small. Rather than requiring a tailored version of their iPad apps, it’s much more likely that Apple would have the device run iPhone apps scaled up. (Not to mention, the new device will supposedly have the iPhone’s aspect ratio; not the iPad’s.) It’s possible they could call it the ‘iPad Nano’ but have it run iPhone apps, but that doesn’t seem likely either. Maybe ‘iPod Macro’?

Has anyone seen this yet???

http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/15/apple-iphone-6-pics-photos-leak-leaked/?adid=hero1

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Goodness gracious look at that huge 80 foot gap between the glass surface and the actual screen!

Actually, after the 1st year of availability, Apple really took the focus off of iPod Touch being a music player and started pushing it's gaming capabilities. As a gaming device and a bridge to the iPad, 5.5" iPod Touch makes the MOST sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCFy8WrbUo

That is what I’m hoping for. I had an iPad Mini for a little while and found it a tad too big for a small tablet—and I like having a small smartphone as my always-with-me device, so a 5.5” iPod Touch would be great for my needs. Between 6” and 7” would be even better but I’ll take what I can get. I hope it’s a large iPod Touch since it would be cheaper and slimmer/lighter than a large iPhone, but I’m not putting my hopes too high—it seems like a lot of people would want it to have phone functionality as well, and it would be easy enough for Apple to comply and throw it in.

If you take your app from a 4" screen to a 5.5" screen by just doing nothing at all, you deserve to be slapped in the face with a big, ripe trout. People do not buy big screen phones just so they can have the same apps, only four times bigger.

Wasn’t VaIO saying they should double the pixel resolution of the iPhone 4’s 3.5” screen?

 

[zipa]

huh? i dont have a samsung thats why im not gonna go on a samsung board and be like "galaxy sucks" in every other threat like he does. that was my point

Well he has an iPhone, so where should he discuss its shortcomings if not on an Apple forum?