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Brazilian Certifications Suggest iPhone 12 Mini Features 2,227mAh Battery and iPhone 12 Has 2,815mAh Battery
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Or every phone in the line-up...
I've always found the 11 series too thick and heavy to carry around. I'm no power user by any means so battery has never been an issue for me.
Okay, whoa! A BRAZILIAN certifications?! That’s A LOT!!
My 11 is way too thick and way too heavy. I applaud Apple for finally making their phones thinner and lighter. I remember a time when no phone was >150g.
I thoroughly respect that you spent three years inactive on the forums, only to fire off as hilariously a bad joke as that. 😂
On topic, that mini battery is still far better than my 4 1/2 Year old SE battery at 84% health. OLED too.
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This. They always do this. I don’t get why people are surprised. They take battery life away every third gen. Then slowly increase it for the next three years to make you think you are getting something. When in reality you already had it previously. Wash, rinse repeat.
On the Apple Watch 6, Apple still states the same battery life but it's way better than any Apple watch that came before. Even though the taptic engine is stronger (not mentioned anywhere officially but it's the first thing reviewers notice). Ditching 3D touch hardware, having a more efficient chip and an OLED screen on the mini should help a lot, provided you like dark mode.
Meanwhile in reality...
The Sony is a 2700 mAh battery -- almost as much battery as the "regular" 6.1" iPhone. Not thick enough to weigh anyone down.
It's odd how people look at numbers and seem to make an inch out of two millimeters. Less than 10g is the same as "less than ten paperclips" in weight.
You seem to be making the point that a bigger phone can have a bigger battery.
I'm not sure you need to make that point.
Smaller batteries again... Apple doing the same mistakes over and over again. Smaller batteries are going to degrade faster. Seriously we are going to see again sub-3000 mAh batteries in a flagship ???
The 12 Mini battery size is ridiculously small... Samsung S10e, which is compact and light, has a 3100 mAh battery (and a mediocre battery life, but that’s mostly related to Android being less efficient).
The 12 Mini battery size is ridiculously small... Samsung S10e, which is compact and light, has a 3100 mAh battery (and a mediocre battery life, but that’s mostly related to Android being less efficient).
The S10e is considerably bigger than the 12 mini.
6S wasn’t great battery life wise, but not even remotely comparable with iPhone 5...
Really iphone iPhone 5 wasn’t able to take me past the early afternoon...
Yes it is bigger, and I didn’t mean to have a direct comparison but just to provide for an idea... a slightly thicker iPhone 12 Mini would have allowed for a bigger battery ( around 2700 mAh ?). And the same applies to the whole iPhone 12 lineup. One thing I love about iPhone 11 Pro is the big battery, that incidentally didn’t lose much capacity over one year.
now they are going for smaller batteries AGAIN
Yep a physically bigger device would allow a physically bigger battery.
Same here. But the mini with 2,227 mAh it has bigger screen and 5G. These two factors will consume a lot of battery in comparison...
The point is the phone is practically the same size as the iPhone Mini, yet has over 20% more battery capacity.
This idea the iPhone's mediocre battery capacity is somehow a necessary sacrifice due to the size of the device is just an Apple apologist's line. The Sony handset is just as pocketable as the iPhone Mini, the width and height being the important characteristics, and being essentially the same between the two. A 2mm difference in thickness is not enough to be seen as an "excessively thick" phone. In fact most people are not even going to be able to perceive a difference of 2mm in a dimension without actually holding it and focusing on it. A weight difference of 10g isn't going to perceived by anyone.
Anuba's post claiming an iPhone would have to be "thick and heavy" to have good battery life is malarkey. Maybe you guys need to up your standards for Apple's supposedly genius engineers.
Absolutely 2mm is not very much but the 12 mini is not 2mm thicker. It is what it is.
They are already the heaviest phones in the market compared to their sizes by a margin and you want to make them even heavier...
Even the lightning connected battery cases are ugly, thick and heavy for the 1300mAH. Change lightning to wireless and it will be even worse.
It’s likely that the 12 mini will be the iphone with the worst battery life in years, especially with actual 5g usage.
I wasn’t talking about battery case. I meant, a thin battery that you can slap on the magsafe. Probably 3-5mm thick like old school nokia’s replaceable battery.