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Leaving power connected doesn't make the phone hot, either.

Disagree. Had countless iPhones, both my own, family members and work issued ones, and when using them on charge, they run notably hotter.

All with official chargers & cables and from different power sources (home/work etc), before you throw that at me.
 
Also - I might be completely wrong on this - judging by the Verge video, does it draw from the case battery first, then the phone? Meaning the phone is effectively on charge until the case is drained?

That's my interpretation as well. Maybe the current won't be high enough to produce any significant increase in heat output? Or it could just be a case you carry around with you and slap on your iPhone when its battery life is low and you need a quick charge.
 
And apple subtly admits the iPhone 6 and 6s battery life is not what users want.
I really like Apples approach to the phone now that they have this option. For me, a thinner lighter phone with less talk and data time is OK. If my situation changes, then this option sounds really good. What I may like better is a removable battery offered in various sizes. Like my old flip phone, have two batteries changing when needed. Not gong to happen so this seems to be a good alternative.
 
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The antenna bands need to be unencumbered to maintain good signal. The options are:

- Traditional battery pack with metal on top of antenna, reducing signal strength

- Hunchback design with metal segregated from antenna areas

- Some sort of antenna passthrough

- live with the internal battery
 
Lol @ the fact that this is EXACTLY what the iPhone would look like with a fat battery (hot garbage), yet people will say how ugly this is & in the same breath that the phones should be fatter with more battery life!
You can't have it both ways, sweeties... fat and ugly with massive battery life OR sexy & thin with less battery life.
It really is a pretty simple concept.
 
Lol @ the fact that this is EXACTLY what the iPhone would look like with a fat battery (hot garbage), yet people will say how ugly this is & in the same breath that the phones should be fatter with more battery life!
You can't have it both ways, sweeties... fat and ugly with massive battery life OR sexy & thin with less battery life.
It really is a pretty simple concept.

No.

A phone with a bigger internal battery wouldn't have a weird hump. It would be uniformly thick, which would look absolutely fine.

It also wouldn't need to be longer. Added length is a necessity with battery cases but not with larger internal batteries.
 
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Lol @ the fact that this is EXACTLY what the iPhone would look like with a fat battery (hot garbage), yet people will say how ugly this is & in the same breath that the phones should be fatter with more battery life!
You can't have it both ways, sweeties... fat and ugly with massive battery life OR sexy & thin with less battery life.
It really is a pretty simple concept.
Fatter is a thing, with a big hump is another... they could have designed the battery thinner and spread it all the way on the case.
 
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So, the next iPhone can get even thinner since Apple sells you the lost battery power for a ridiculously $99 with this ugly piece of ****... To me, this is the final proof apple lost it completely. Just WTF.
 
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No.

A phone with a bigger internal battery wouldn't have a weird hump. It would be uniformly thick, which looks absolutely fine.

It also wouldn't need to be longer. Added length is a necessity with battery cases but not with larger internal batteries.

It also wouldn't need the extra bulk of walls on walls as it does here (back wall of iPhone up against front wall of this battery case and then ANOTHER back wall. Make an iPhone a mm or two thicker (which is still too thin IMO and fill the gap with a bigger battery). I still argue that iPhone 5 thin was about as thin as Apple should have gone. iPhone 5 thin for bigger-size screens would create enormous space for more battery. IMO, Apple should have gone that way. The ongoing strive to technological anorexia is not sexy.

And thin at the expense of having protruding parts and/or a need to also carry extra parts as accessories is faking "thinner & lighter". In other words, if you pretty much need to carry the extra accessory, the weight & thickness of the accessory should count in the total. Else, why not just go ahead an eject the battery altogether which would allow a next iPhone to get much thinner & lighter and then make the accessory of a battery case like this mandatory to actually be able to use the device? At some point the marketing spin of "thinner & lighter" just completely fails.

For the last 2-3 iDevice generations, it's rare to see anyone around here griping about the onerous thickness of any iDevices. If "too thick" is a mainstream problem, OK. But if it doesn't seem to be anyone's problem, why so much effort to fix a problem that doesn't seem to exist?
 
Disagree. Had countless iPhones, both my own, family members and work issued ones, and when using them on charge, they run notably hotter.

All with official chargers & cables and from different power sources (home/work etc), before you throw that at me.

Agree that the phone heats during charging but not once complete. My phone heats up a bit at times when not plugged in depending on how I'm using it. Lots of CPU use or screen on time does it. GPS too.
 
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