The larger iPad is called the Air...Seems weird to call the larger iPhone the iPhone air, no?
sounds like there was no 5.5 inch iPhone in the first place![]()
sounds like there was no 5.5 inch iPhone in the first place![]()
You mean like the original iPhone?
I used to charge my iPhone 3G twice a week. My next iPhone I had to charge virtually every day with the same usage.
I am into fitness, don't get me wrong. I enjoy being thin myself. However when it comes to technology, I don't like electronic devices referred to as "thin" or "sexy". Some people and some devices look better and function better with a little bit of meat on them. If 2-3mm could double the battery life of a cellphone, then make it 4-6mm thicker.
Amen![]()
I really don't understand the complaints about the iPhone's battery.
If you have all your push notifications on, push e-mail, bluetooth and wifi always on, and mid-high to high screen brightness, then yeah, you're going to have battery issues. If you want to make the battery last longer, switch to fetch e-mail, turn off most app notifications, turn off bluetooth, wifi and location services when you aren't using them, and turn down the brightness. All of a sudden, your battery WILL last you 2-3 days of moderate use.
At the same time, how often are people going 2-3 days without being near a power source? I basically use one charger for my phone and two iPads at home, and yet all my devices stay charged -- I can usually start the day with 90+% battery on all three devices.
I'm sure there are some situations where people may go long periods of time without having a power source available, but 2-3+ days on a regular basis? Those situations have to be few and far between.
A product that hasn't been announced nor has it had a release date announced has been delayed? Interesting...
You must be new here... Apple's obsession with thin supersedes all other concerns, no matter how little sense it makes. It's more important to them than it is to nearly anyone actually buying the phone.
There's obviously a limit (which I think Samsung have reached) when a phone screen shouldn't get any bigger because it just can't fit in your pocket.
So Apple designed a phone w/o considering the reality of battery technology? This story doesn't seem credible.
For all those people who say the phone is already thin enough: pick up an iPod Touch and tell me you don't think the 5/5S felt like a brick afterwards.
Jony Ive designs something first and then asks engineering to figure out how to make it a reality. It goes back to the Steve Jobs era.
Amazing.....Samsung and HTC can create larger screen phones but not Apple. Maybe Apple should contract out to those companies to produce their next iPhones.![]()
Regardless of what size it is, raising the price seems like a horrible idea. As if they aren't expensive as it is...![]()
Regardless of Apple's obsession with thin, do you really believe that's what happened? And why are we only hearing about this with the rumored 5.5" device? Presumably Apple's obsession with thin would extend to the rumored 4.7" device as well, yes?
Maybe Apple can just license iOS and let Samsung do the hardware.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think battery life has actually decreased since the introduction of the original iPhone. In fact I think it's actually got marginally better with each iteration.
Difference is now of course we're all using them more and more so it appears to have shortened.
And if they made it thicker and heavier it would still sell by the tens of millions. No matter what they do it will sell in record numbers. More expensive, bigger, heavier, less battery, etc, it will sell.
"Fits in pocket" is by no means a universal requirement for a cell phone, let alone a smartphone/phablet. Besides, Samsung has a lot of tablets that can make calls, and I have actually used the old 7" Galaxy as a phone on occasion.
Just turn off the stuff you don't use. Only takes 2 minutes and there's no reason not to really. Here's a few things you can try:
1. Disable location and background app refresh for Facebook (FB in particular is a massive drain when that's turned on)
2. Disable background app refresh for apps you don't care about
3. Turn off parallax (Settings/General/Accessibility/Turn Reduce Motion ON)
4. Turn off everything you don't use Spotlight to search for (Settings/General/Spotlight Search/Untick everything you don't use it for)
5. Turn off Documents & Data under iCloud settings for unimportant apps (Settings/iCloud/Documents & Data/Untick all unimportant apps. If there are no important apps here at all turn off the master switch)
6. Delete all apps/games you don't use
7. Delete all music/podcasts you're not going to listen to
8. Keep your screen brightness as low as you can
And then do a hard reset (Hold down power button, switch off iPhone and turn back on again). That will boost your battery life and your phone's performance.
You're welcome![]()
I'll pass on the iPhone this year if Apple can't get their **** together. Anything less than a 5.5" is a non-player in my opinion.
If you really need a 7000 mAh battery for your usage, you'll never be happy with an iPhone. Now or ever.One of the reasons I have an S3 is because I could stick a massive 7000mah battery into it.
However, I use it HEAVY daily with no Wifi (grandfathered into VW's unlimited data), and from 7am-11pm, I may be around 60% battery left. I browse the net throughout the day, check fb, twitter, etc, and do a couple hours of XM app streaming.
I am very tempted by the S5 (I love having a replaceable battery), but I will try hard to hold out for when the next iphone comes out, but the battery issue is still the #1 priority for me. Thin is nice, but too thin = small battery = me pissed that I have to worry about battery.
This thing is turning into a mess. Why should the biggest iPhone be called the iPad air? It's not going to be any lighter or thinner than the 4.7" version
What I meant was, I think Samsung have reached the point where their flagship doesn't need to get any bigger. If you want a larger screen you can go for a different Samsung product.
There is a limited number of people willing to stuff their pockets with a cell phone. The big cell phone fad is already on the downward side of the slope.
No it is more a question of gullibility and misplaced priorities that drove you to it.
Until you realize that carrying a brick around with you has changed your life and not for the better.
And you must not know how to read. Take a look at the left. When does it say I joined MR? Hmm... July 2002. That's what, 9 years before you? Just saying before you are going to toss out sarcastic bombs you might want to make sure they make sense in the context you are tossing them out.
Then simply use a bigger battery, the iPhone 5S is already thin enough.