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Apple should increase iPhone's battery life.

I have never read battery specs on my iPhone and really couldn't care less what they are

What I look for is how the size/weight of the phone fits in my lifestyle
And how the OS functions in my workflow
And how long the battery lasts in my real life usage, not in some review or comparison
My iPhone easily lasts a full day without charging and I charge every night

Under my requirements, the iPhone performs exceptionally well
Which I is why I continue to buy them
And why my work Galaxy S3 stays turned off and forwarded to my iPhone
 
oVerboost said:
Yes, but one is a high quality battery, the others are generally cheap and don't perform to specification!

I'd love better battery life, as would millions, but I'm certainly not going to switch my allegiances towards a "lesser" phone just for an extra hour of battery life that I wouldn't need because I wouldn't be enjoying using my iPhone to require it lol.
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Don't go with a lesser phone go with a greater phone.

Galaxy s 4, galaxy note 3, maxx, nexus 5,moto x, many options for greater phones with better battery
 
Max(IT) said:
It is as long as he doesn't consider "screen on time" but usage time with same usage pattern.
If I keep an iPhone for one week, configure it according to my needs, I can find out what usage time on average, I can reach.
Next week I do the same with another phone, configure it according to the same needs (mostly with same apps, or similar), I can find out usage time with the new phone.
You can't compare these values minute per minute, but you can see if there is a major difference (like 3 hours as he said).
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I'm sorry, but the two can't be compared with any accuracy.

But there's no point in arguing about this...

Cheers
 
bjb.butler said:
I'm sorry, but the two can't be compared with any accuracy.

But there's no point in arguing about this...

Cheers
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They can, because we are not speaking about a fridge and a wash machine, we are speaking about two smartphones, and THE SAME USER, with the same usage pattern.
The two os could use different processes, slightly different applications, but the tasks they are going to perform are the same, so there's nothing wrong in saying something like "usage time on my Samsung XYZ is about 4 hours and on my iPhone XY is 6 hours".

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thehustleman said:
Don't go with a lesser phone go with a greater phone.

Galaxy s 4, galaxy note 3, maxx, nexus 5,moto x, many options for greater phones with better battery
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None of the listed above are "greater phones", and some don't even have better battery ....
 
Max(IT) said:
They can, because we are not speaking about a fridge and a wash machine, we are speaking about two smartphones, and THE SAME USER, with the same usage pattern.
The two os could use different processes, slightly different applications, but the tasks they are going to perform are the same, so there's nothing wrong in saying something like "usage time on my Samsung XYZ is about 4 hours and on my iPhone XY is 6 hours".

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None of the listed above are "greater phones", and some don't even have better battery ....
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All of em are.
 
although better battery is always a plus, obviously if apple could do it they would. But i'm sure there is no way to engineer a phone the way it is right now and have a bigger battery. Something has to give...i.e. thicker phone to house bigger battery.

10 hours is more than enough for a good majority of people.
 
thehustleman said:
All of em are.
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Yes .... in your dream
Just a bounch of android phones, one of them even can't fit in my pocket, with pumped up specs to let a poorly optimized os to runs smoothly.
Nothing comparable at an iPhone 5s.
 
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bjb.butler said:
No, it's not valid at all.

But he didn't say that... He said that one phone died after X amount of "usage" and another phone died after Y amount of screen on.. The two aren't comparable, at all :cool:
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I said screen-on usage because my Galaxy doesn't have a plan or sim card so I never make calls on it nor have music on it, thus for me to use it the screen needs to be on.

I knew what I'm talking about, and like I said my iPhone gets better battery life than my S3 which has a larger battery, only sits in airplane mode with Wifi on, never takes pictures/video and doesn't need to worry about bad cellular reception. iPhone has everything working against it (cellular reception, smaller battery, me being a selfie freak) and still wins. Whether you think they relate is upto you, I'm just putting it out there.
 
I had a 3+ year old iphone 4 that was barely making it until evening when I upgraded to the 5s, which gets me to nearly 2 days usage. I reformatted the iphone 4 and gave it to my wife, and we talk about 2 hours per day and text a lot. She didn't install any apps so she basically gets no notifications except for text messages and email and she easily gets 3-4 days on an old battery. It's all those notifications that are using up battery.
 
Max(IT) said:
Yes .... in your dream
Just a bounch of android phones, one of them even can't fit in my pocket, with pumped up specs to let a poorly optimized os to runs smoothly.
Nothing comparable at an iPhone 5s.
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If any of those phones can't fit in your pocket either you're a woman or you're a man wearing women's pants or skinny jeans because all of those phones fit very comfortably in the pocket and are way better than any phone apple currently offers.

Meanwhile the 5s' biggest achievement is a fingerprint scanner - welcome to 2011
 
thehustleman said:
If any of those phones can't fit in your pocket either you're a woman or you're a man wearing women's pants or skinny jeans because all of those phones fit very comfortably in the pocket and are way better than any phone apple currently offers.
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I'm a man, with two sons to prove it, and I'm not going to take any of those ugly phones with me.
Not a single one of the phones you listed are better than iPhone 5s. One of them isn't a smartphone at all with its ridicolus 5.7" large display ....
Meanwhile the 5s' biggest achievement is a fingerprint scanner - welcome to 2011
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Yep ... Except no one made a fingerprint scanner that actually works that way.
I can understand that from the point of view of someone who can't see the difference between a sleek smartphone and a phablet is very difficult to understand something like 64-bits architecture and top performance using a chipset with half the core and almost half the frequency of your beloved android monsters .... :rolleyes:
 
thehustleman said:
If any of those phones can't fit in your pocket either you're a woman or you're a man wearing women's pants or skinny jeans because all of those phones fit very comfortably in the pocket and are way better than any phone apple currently offers.

Meanwhile the 5s' biggest achievement is a fingerprint scanner - welcome to 2011
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Funnily enough, the only pair of jeans I own that could fit a Note 3 comfortably happens to be the only pair of skinny jeans I own...
 
Max(IT) said:
I'm a man, with two sons to prove it, and I'm not going to take any of those ugly phones with me.
Not a single one of the phones you listed are better than iPhone 5s. One of them isn't a smartphone at all with its ridicolus 5.7" large display ....


Yep ... Except no one made a fingerprint scanner that actually works that way.
I can understand that from the point of view of someone who can't see the difference between a sleek smartphone and a phablet is very difficult to understand something like 64-bits architecture and top performance using a chipset with half the core and almost half the frequency of your beloved android monsters .... :rolleyes:
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IPhones USED TO BE the best, now android does so much more, it ain't even funny.

Apple is playing catchup to android.

You can never be better than a phone you haven't even caught up to.

But lol@ a man picking phones based on how they look.

And a phablet IS a smartphone, just with a big screen.


If any of those phones don't fit in your pocket, please start buying your pants from the men's department. Problem solved
 
thehustleman said:
IPhones USED TO BE the best, now android does so much more, it ain't even funny.

Apple is playing catchup to android.

You can never be better than a phone you haven't even caught up to.

But lol@ a man picking phones based on how they look.

And a phablet IS a smartphone, just with a big screen.


If any of those phones don't fit in your pocket, please start buying your pants from the men's department. Problem solved
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Actually android is the main reason why none of them is better than iPhone 5s ...

A phablet is a tablet that can make, in a ridicolus way, phone calls ...
 
Max(IT) said:
Actually android is the main reason why none of them is better than iPhone 5s ...

A phablet is a tablet that can make, in a ridicolus way, phone calls ...
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Not quite.


Android is the reason they'll always be better than iPhone.

I left iPhone for a reason
 
What application requires a larger battery? Why would we need a larger battery? How much battery life should a device in a certain size actually have? I think at this point in cellular development, we have adequate base battery life in devices. If you need extra juice, you just bring a battery with you because there are a ton of those on the market that are fairly inexpensive. The iPhones have better than average battery life compared with the rest of the devices on the market. Android devices tend to draw more power depending on what is open but they do make larger devices with larger batteries in them. There is more choice on Android devices. Overall Android devices still consume more amps per second than iOS devices on par. If you really need more battery life, just purchase an external battery, it's a pretty easy solution.
 
moldy lunchbox said:
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I knew what I'm talking about, and like I said my iPhone gets better battery life than my S3 which has a larger battery,
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Well that's nice for you. I had an S3 and upgraded to the iPhone 5, and my battery life was about the same on both with equal usage... On weekdays I take my phone off the charger at 7am.... by 9pm both would be almost dead (5%~15%) :rolleyes:

I don't know what's wrong with your S3, seing as it's only on wifi with no cell signal, but your battery life claims go against every review I've read, and all my friends that have an S3. Doesn't matter tho,

cheers
 
bjb.butler said:
Well that's nice for you. I had an S3 and upgraded to the iPhone 5, and my battery life was about the same on both with equal usage... On weekdays I take my phone off the charger at 7am.... by 9pm both would be almost dead (5%~15%) :rolleyes:

I don't know what's wrong with your S3, seing as it's only on wifi with no cell signal, but your battery life claims go against every review I've read, and all my friends that have an S3. Doesn't matter tho,

cheers
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My s3 on airplane mode and just wifi lasts 3 days, a week without wifi.

Something is defective
 
I just switched from an s3 about two weeks ago. At max I would get about 5hrs of usage out the thing before I was running for a charger. My 5s allows me to go all day without needing to recharge it. I get about 11-13hrs of usage out of it before the battery is at 1%.

I personally don't think they need to increase battery life, its far better than most android based phones IMO.
 
Jacob SMITH said:
Do you think apple should increase their battery life.....?
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In exchange for what? Product design is always about compromises and you don't get something for nothing. What are you willing to sacrifice in exchange for more battery?

What they've come up with works for me. On days with much heavier usage I might need an additional charge. As with any matter of usage, YMMV.
 
thehustleman said:
But lol@ a man picking phones based on how they look.
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What car do you drive? What shoes do you wear? Some people choose form over function, others the opposite, but to laugh at others valuing form means one of two things: either you're the kind of person people look at and giggle, or you're being a hypocrite.

If any of those phones don't fit in your pocket, please start buying your pants from the men's department. Problem solved
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Another take on this is for you to start buying clothes that actually fit, instead of the baggy clothes that are so common amongst Americans...
 
I can see the arguments for both sides (size vs battery life). They didn't need to make the iPhone 5 thinner when they made it taller. I said at the time that they should have extended the battery life because we used to the weight of the 4/4S but looking back now, I'm glad they made it thinner.

That said, it would be good for users to be able to make the most of all the iPhone features without having to switch things off to preserve battery life. Things like bluetooth, wifi, alerts, push notifications for all relevant apps, background app refreshing etc. If I have everything on, my battery may not last the normal working day with commute and certainly wouldn't last through to the end of an extended day (such as after work drinks and the journey home).
 
hafr said:
What car do you drive? What shoes do you wear? Some people choose form over function, others the opposite, but to laugh at others valuing form means one of two things: either you're the kind of person people look at and giggle, or you're being a hypocrite.


Another take on this is for you to start buying clothes that actually fit, instead of the baggy clothes that are so common amongst Americans...
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A smartphone is a computer that makes calls essentially. Why would I buy one for how it looks? It's one thing that should be bought for function.

And I DO buy clothes that fit, and the note 2 fits comfortably in the pocket. try again.
 
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