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What's this obsession with battery life? I have a charging cable in every room at home, one in my car, and one at work. There are USB ports/electrical outlets *everywhere* in our society. I'm not sure I've gone below 50% battery life in a very long time.

I'd like to hear how people are having problems with the iPhone's battery life. Unless you're constantly using the GPS or watching Netflix videos, I just don't understand how you can be having such big battery problems.
 
I sometimes ponder the question of how many hours per day do the battery whiners spend on their phone, reading about, or moaning about, battery life?

It's really hilarious. Very obviously, the majority, who are not you (the reader who is now raging), do not have iphone battery life problems. If they did, Apple wouldn't sell any phones. But of course it cannot be that everyone else has a life and doesn't stare into their phone from sunrise to sunset. It MUST be that they are stupid sheep.

Tech bloggers and those who worship them could use a reminder that the world does not revolve around them or their unhealthy usage patterns.
 
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Newer iPhone models always have improved battery life.

People just need to stop living in an Android world where more mAh = more battery life.

Cars have improved autonomy now, and they didn't need bigger gas tanks.

More mAh equals more battery life no matter how efficient the rest is. Ideally, everything is as efficient as possible and the battery is as big as possible.
 
What's this obsession with battery life? I have a charging cable in every room at home, one in my car, and one at work. There are USB ports/electrical outlets *everywhere* in our society. I'm not sure I've gone below 50% battery life in a very long time.

I'd like to hear how people are having problems with the iPhone's battery life. Unless you're constantly using the GPS or watching Netflix videos, I just don't understand how you can be having such big battery problems.

I don't have particularly significant battery issues, particularly after switching to a 6S+. But I'd advocate for a healthy reserve over any further slimming down in the pursuit of some arbitrary thinness mandate. Constantly plugging in is a terrible user experience.
 
6S Plus lasts for me 2 days and i still usually have some juice left.

Same, my 6s Plus lasts roughly two days with an Apple Watch connected to it, bluetooth to my vehicles for calling and LTE personal hotspot off and on.

Makes me wonder why people are only getting a day out of a phone, my 6 plus, 5s and 5 were no different, excellent battery life.
 
As big as possible? So a 200mm thick phone? Genuine question.

"over any further slimming down"

I think the current devices achieve a great balance. We're approaching the limit of some core pieces of functionality - camera, headphone jack, etc. We've reached the point in device profile where the functionality is (or should be) more important than grams or millimeters.
 
Legit question, when is the last time any of you whipped an iphone out of your pocket and thought "my what a beautiful thing you are, if only you were thinner!"..

Actually no, I've never thought that or the opposite. Since the iPhone 5 I've never even found issue with the battery with my use. Of course I'm speaking of life outside of the Internet forums, that place called real life where much much more relevent concerns happen.

Anyway it's going to be interesting to see where technology will be in the next five years.
 
I hate OLED so much. The best thing about the iPhone is the lack of it.
So you also hate Apple Watch?

Seriously guys, calm down with the tribalism --- you'll inevitably be proved a fool when Apple adopts some tech that came from "the enemy" because, amazing as it might be to believe, it turns out that Apple is not the only company in the world with smart people.
To give a basic example --- are you going to refuse to run any code compiled using LLVM? You realize plenty of the lead LLVM folks work at Google, right?
 
So it was ok to design thin phones up until what point versus battery life?

8mm? 7.9mm? Surely if thin is too thin then everyone would prefer 100mm?

In my opinion 99% of people who want a thicker phone are talking ****. They just want someone else to figure out how to defy physics for them, so that they can find something else to whine about on the Internet.
 
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More mAh equals more battery life no matter how efficient the rest is. Ideally, everything is as efficient as possible and the battery is as big as possible.

Yes, but you can't directly compare Apple devices with Android devices.

Apple has their products well trimmed, from the OS down to the SOC to be as efficient as possible. That's why they can have everything: thinness, power, battery life.

Look. If you are going to attach battery tests, to try to prove the iPhone 6s has a better battery than the 6, the last thing you want to do is than turn around claim they are the best, when your own attachment says otherwise.

Two things. iPhone 6S does not have better battery life than the 6, and iPhone 6 does not have best battery in class.

It's not often someone produces evidence to contradict themselves . Look at the attachment you posted.

Post #70: is the attachment you added.

Goodbye.

(for people not following this, I just proved him that the 6S has improved battery life compared to the 6, despite the smaller battery)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review/8
 
Maybe you should checkout Apple Care? Besides that I know a couple of people claiming that an iphone was the first phone they had that lived longer than the 2 year contract it came with.

So then the price for an iphone 6s is 130.00 more. There IS no apple care where I live but it should not be a required thing. I had an iphone 5, it went out in 10 months and the replacement went out right after the next two months and the coverage had ended. Screw that. We had 3 sgs2's that lasted 4 years.

Prices here are higher than the us but lets take a look. A 16gb 6 plus is pretty worthless to me since it has no sdxc slot. So a 64gb is 750.00 in the us with something like 75.00 tax. Add apple care to that at another 130.00 and you are up over 950.00. Right, even if I wasn't in the third world I wouldn't pay that for a phone. I paid less than half for a slightly larger phone with more storage (32 gb and up to 128 gb storage) that I like more than I ever liked my iphone(s).

Funny how people just fling around getting apple care within it adds another 130.00 to the price of a phone.

So to me "get apple care with it" just makes it more undesirable to me and paying almost 1000.00 for a phone that I only use as a phone because the os is so boring is just plain ridiculous. It even costs more here with no option for apple care.

I still have a mac, but no more ios. I can even use it outside in the sun, the phone anyway. Standby for the "price is irrelevant if it has an apple on the outside" comments. Not everyone lives in the first world and for many of us the "no file system, use the cloud" doesn't work well either with unreliable/slow internet and unreliable electricity.

I think people should use what works for them though and for now mac works for me but ios does not.
 
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Yes, but you can't directly compare Apple devices with Android devices.

Apple has their products well trimmed, from the OS down to the SOC to be as efficient as possible. That's why they can have everything: thinness, power, battery life.



Goodbye.

(for people not following this, I just proved him that the 6S has improved battery life compared to the 6, despite the smaller battery)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review/8

Ha ha ha.

You did no such thing. Battery life has not changed.

http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-6s/specs/

http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-6/specs/

The battery specs are identical!

The iPhone 6S is more efficient , though battery life for the user remains the same.

To get a real test you would need to compare multiple devices , multiple times and get an average. The anandtech review supports apples tech specs. What you see in that review are tolerances that exists between devices.

Mate, call apple and tell them you have evidence that the 6S has longer battery life, no doubt they will agree and update thier tech specs.... Ha ha ha. Apple are very smart, smart enough to get the tech specs right on thier own products, and not wishful thinking of fans.

Do you even own a iPhone 6s? Or are you trying to convience yourself of the batter battery life? As a reason to upgrade?
 
HAHAHAHAHAHA. This is just comedy gold!!!

Unless you are posting this from an alternate universe, because in that case I owe you an apology.

Awesome , you captured one of the best replies on MR for a long time, he deleted it.
 
Most likely because OLED used to suck.(pixelated pen-tile, bad color gamut and balance, burn-in, and color fade) But the technology has improved considerably in the last 5-7 years, and these problems have been mostly solved now.

Durability and cost (in large screens) has not been solved.
Not sure Apple wants to switch to a dark mode either...
 
He has a point for his usage and view of the world. For my use 6 hours is not a lot of time. Completely freshly charged 6s gets me about 7.5 hours of screen-on time. Take phone off the charger and catch train to airport - 1 hour ebook reading. Kicking around airside waiting to board - 1 hour ebook reading and maybe a few calls & texts. Waiting on plane for boarding to complete, pushback, taxi and takeoff- 1 hour ebook reading. There is now about 4.5 hours of life left, of which I want to preserve an hour so that I have some battery left on arrival, so my phone is essentially dead 3.5 hours into an 11.5 hour flight. Also, since this is travelling I prefer to use luggage space and weight for useful stuff like clothes, toiletries etc rather than battery extenders to compensate for the phone itself not having enough battery life.

I wouldn't say that this is exclusively Apple's problem, smart phone manufacturers in general should in my opinion aspire to better battery life than most of them provide at the moment, but I also wouldn't dismiss it as a non-issue just because some people only use a phone as a phone and/or don't have lifestyles that mean they are away from a charger for significant lengths of time. Some people do buy into the all-in-one concept. I really do want my phone to be my phone, my camera, my iPod, my ebook reader, my satnav, my games console, my video player and more besides. It already has the capabilies to perform all of those functions to my satisfaction except for battery life.

I routinely carry DSLR and laptops in my carry on and your saying on the weight of a batter extender which takes less space than toothpaste (and probably weighs less too!!). Man. I went to Japan for a whole month with a carry-on that had a laptop in it... Had to do laundry a few times of course...

The arguments are kinda of absurd really. There are also a lot of planes and airports with USB ports. In business and first its a given.

Never have run out of battery.
 
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