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Apple Launches Official $99 Battery Enhancing Case for iPhone 6s
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You do realize that 400 mah extra would be 23% of the current battery size. So on your current 6s do you only get 1 hour from every 23%? So your 6s only last 4 hours then right?
Again, stop making random guesses. Math never fails.
You say you have 60% left by the end of the day on your 6s (which is extremely hard to believe). However if you had the extra 23% then you would have 83% for the next day. More than enough to last you a 2nd day and still have more for the 3rd day. So no you will not need to charge it up at the end of the night. Hence it won't be useless. In addition you said you get 12 hrs usage from 40% battery. Therefore 23% extra would give you at least 6 hours more.
Come on I have shown you the numbers. You have to agree it makes sense. Just try and be objective.
u just know iFixIt will tear down this sucker.
I've started dropping my phone.. (not intentionally), but its in a case...
just image how bad it would be without one. I like the back of the phone too, but i also like to protect it.
I've started dropping my phone.. (not intentionally), but its in a case...
just image how bad it would be without one. I like the back of the phone too, but i also like to protect it.
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I look at MBP, iMac and iPhone and I see beautifully designed devices.
Lol, GSMArena a reputable website ? Is a nest of fandroids ....
Wrong. Haters sign up on Apple centric forums just to desperately downplay Cupertino's company.
I don't see any Apple user signing up on Android Central to speak about ugly Android devices (most of them).
Apple desperate ?
Wow you are revealing your true nature here ...
Apple is literally printing money. Id like to be desperate as they are...
Family feeling counts for something.
I also posted review from the verge (who people say is biased to Apple) and they said z5c last 2 days. Verge is biased towards Android too?
No I said if I had DOUBLE the battery id have 50-60% at the end of the day, but whats the use in that, if I dont charge it up over night it'll be 30-40% by the morning and then wont make it through the next day without a recharge. This is objective speaking, a larger battery would be useless for the majority of average users. It adds weight, expensive and size. What id rather Apple spent their time on is working out BETTER battery technologies and PROPER wireless charging (eg charging that works when you enter a room, not when you put it on a pad you might as well plug into)
That MATHS (silly 'math' Americanism) adds up on paper, but in real world you're not going to get exactly that - but lets suggest for one minute you really would get 400mah for 1mm extra phone and it even worked exactly like you suggest, its still not going to make any difference to most peoples usage of the phone. It still wouldn't last all day if they played games on it all the time, and for the rest of us, we'd just have 20% more battery left over when we needed to charge it at night anyway.
This is why the richest tech company in the world comes to these decisions and sells millions rather than people on message boards to tell them how they could do better.
why anyone would get this instead of a mophie is beyond me
I can think of quite a few ideas myself.
http://www.birchtree.me/blog/iphone-charging-case
Is it just me, or are people in general too quick to judge, and even quicker to step in and condemn Apple products, as though there was some prize for who can blast Apple the fastest and loudest?
I can understand such acrimony and ignorance coming from other sites like Cnet and Engadget but here?
the article was extremely vague, it said absolutely nothing. Unless you're carrying a purse or murse all day its pretty inconvenient because of that bulky shape.
mophie cases are nice because:
1. they been around since the beginning, which means they have the most experience and specialize in this. Thats why the have the "sync & charge" feature down. Apple accessories don't have a great reputation anyways so to expects faults is common. I don't expect them to invest so much time and research into a battery case.
if so then they would of invested in fixing their frail cables.
2. the article mentioned "cheap", the last mophie case, the iPhone 4S (which i used as an international phone for another 4 years after the contract) which i used for 6 years and which i still have now is in good condition and i used it a lot.
When i travel, staying over out of town for the weekends, road/camping/cabin trips. I used it extensively and it didnt wear much. The smooth coating wore off and thats it. Cheap? I'd beg to differ.
Mophie is the brand you pay extra for instead of the cheap chinese generic batteries designed from china. They're whole company is about extra battery/power for mobile devices.
Thats all they do, and they have almost a decade worth of experience and data that they use to make their current models better.
I'd stick with Mophie
That Mophie case definitely looks a lot bulkier than the Apple Battery case. The mophie case looks like something I would bring along on an extended camping trip where I know I will have no ready access to power, but not something I would like for normal everyday use.
The primary reason why I never considered using a Mophie case on my 4s or 5s was primarily because I felt it looked like crap.
The Apple battery case seems to be the reverse here. The battery life it offers is less, and that's fine because it should still prove sufficient for someone to last their iPhone through a normal day. You are likely looking at someone whose iPhone 6 is probably at 20% by 4 pm, and the case should let them extend that till at night, just nice for a recharge. Between the two, the Apple case would probably fit into my pants pocket a lot easier than a Mophie case, and I would have less qualms about walking around with the former in my pocket all day.
I think it is safe to conclude that the people Apple is trying to attract here are not die-hard Mophie fans, and focusing strictly on specs like "extra battery life" tells only one very lopsided part of the story.
"a larger battery would be useless for the majority of average users." ....nice you randomly assume it would be useless for average users. Well I will ASSUME that average users would prefer their phone last all day incase they go out at night after work. Average users would much prefer a longer lasting battery.
"its still not going to make any difference to most peoples usage of the phone. It still wouldn't last all day if they played games on it all the time, and for the rest of us, we'd just have 20% more battery left over when we needed to charge it at night anyway."
AGAIN with your random assumptions. What about users who does a little gaming here and there, some GPS and the usual social media, calls, text. It will atleast last them throughout the day instead of half the day (12 hours).
yeah the only thing you're missing is the 6s does NOT last all day for many people. Hence 400 mah would make it last all day for some instead of dying at 5-6pm.
and they did
And complain that its not very repairable
aaaaand they did this too... you both are psychic!!!!
haha, oh iFixIt, who honestly would pay to repair an iPhone case?
I actually was sort of curious... since this case is compatible with both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S per Apple's product page, I assume then the iPhone 6 lock screen will show the case and device battery level side-by-side just like the iPhone 6S does in the marketing images?
Also, they really should have provided a headphone jack pass-thru much like the lightning port. There must be no relatively simple way for Apple to have the iPhone distinguish a hypothetical pass-thru headphone plug on the case from the headphone plug on your earbuds, so the iPhone would stop playing audio over the external speaker when the case's pass-thru jack was plugged into the iPhone's headphone plug? They could have put a speaker in the case instead of passing the audio straight thru a hole at the bottom of the case though... idk.
Also, they really should have provided a headphone jack pass-thru much like the lightning port. There must be no relatively simple way for Apple to have the iPhone distinguish a hypothetical pass-thru headphone plug on the case from the headphone plug on your earbuds, so the iPhone would stop playing audio over the external speaker when the case's pass-thru jack was plugged into the iPhone's headphone plug? They could have put a speaker in the case instead of passing the audio straight thru a hole at the bottom of the case though... idk.
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Any iPhone case destroys the elegance, now some much worse than others, but still... the iPhone is sexiest when it's naked.
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I'm sure it works, and the integration may be nice, but its not my cup of tea, but then if you're ok with the looks of it, then what does it matter - enjoy
