Controlled Testing Supports Apple's Claim of Nearly Equal iPhone 6s Battery Life With TSMC and Samsung Chips

Think about this is real world terms.

Between different app usage, LTE signal strength, brightness, volume, etc... No one is going to notice any difference in the real world.

Person A with a Samsung chip might end the day with 23% battery remaining, a TSMC phone might end the day on 21% because his carriers LTE signal was weak for a couple of hours during the day and had to change towers a couple of times.

There will be bugger all difference to iPhone users in the real world as there are about 50 things that will affect battery life throughout a typical day.

This is not an issue!
 
GeneralChang said:
NEWS FLASH! Apple knows the capabilities of a device they built better than a dude who had his hands on it for three hours!

That's like, my whole world on its head there, guys. Just, nothing makes sense anymore.
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But then again, you remember the iphone 4 death grip? LOL sigh... Apple failed hard on that one.
 
The force will be with you guys always. ;)

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I wanna know how so many people think they know how other's battery life is?
How can you call people that are complaining about battery issues "crazy"? As if you know wether they are having issues are not.
 
Great to hear that the issue isn't as bad as we had all feared for most of us.

But it's important to understand why people are unhappy about getting a Samsung chip if they run heavy tasks often. Then to them, the difference is still 28%.
 
http://www.01net.com/actualites/chi...-une-nette-difference-d-autonomie-921706.html
French tech site "01Net" tests Samsung/TSMC with their own mixed usages test, with an average CPU load of 50% :
7H15min battery life for TSMC 6s
6H20min battery life for Samsung 6s
They admit that what Apple says about real world usage applies to the basic user, but that intensive / expert users (and I think most of us here fall into that box) will suffer from the life battery shortcomings of the Samsung 6s phones.


To be honest we have to balance the battery difference with the performance difference, as the Samsung seems to be a little more powerful than the TSMC.


I'm still waiting before jumping in. When I buy a smartphone, especially with a 1K€ price tag, it's for several years (4 minimum), I want it to be strong and future proof. I won't shell that much money knowing that I gamble on one hour of battery life / or slightly more CPU power, depending on what chip I'll get. That's acceptable for other cheaper crappy brands, but not Apple.

Until recently I saw Apple as an hassle-free brand : you were getting something extremely QC'ed, that just worked and was very usable. When I see the recent missteps, my trust is eroding : aluminium frame quality last year, Samsung/TSMC battery life/cpu power this year, ios 9 animations stuttering on iphone 6 (only one year old device sold ~ 1K€ last year, can't you release a smooth OS update, Apple, as advertised ? And yes I checked and witnessed the ios 9 choppiness with my own eyes on iphone 6 in several stores, I admit it's not in every animation, but very noticeable, and inacceptable for such a price range).

I'm fed up with my iphone 4, becoming really too slow and small, and needing to be charged >= 2 times a day.
I don't wan't to switch to Android.
I want a new shiny and powerful iPhone.

but I want one that's worth its price, with not such a big variance in power/battery life.
 
yep-sure said:
Think about this is real world terms.

Between different app usage, LTE signal strength, brightness, volume, etc... No one is going to notice any difference in the real world.

Person A with a Samsung chip might end the day with 23% battery remaining, a TSMC phone might end the day on 21% because his carriers LTE signal was weak for a couple of hours during the day and had to change towers a couple of times.

There will be bugger all difference to iPhone users in the real world as there are about 50 things that will affect battery life throughout a typical day.

This is not an issue!
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Nevertheless, there are so many phones out there that holding all other factors constant, your phone is still worse than someone else's at a given point in time. Therefore you are still not getting your money's worth compared to someone else...
 
smoking monkey said:
No need for that. Had he said her, would you have gone off and called the bloke a sexist pig? I highly doubt it. I find your attitude dangerous and alarming or are you just trolling?
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Even I could tell s/he was just joking. God people on these forums take things so seriously sometimes. It's annoying to read your responses. Go away.
 
pbasmadj said:
I have the Samsung, and am on the Apple upgrade program, so my care for such details has gone down a lot. Won't have this phone in 12 months, don't care as much, less invested. It is a beautiful thing. Even if I were planning to own the phone long term, this specific detail isn't too big of a deal and I am sure has been blown out of proportion by people with not very much statistical or engineering test experience. I will say that the 6s is absolutely, absolutely, my favorite phone that I have ever had. Not even in the same realm as the 6. It is truly a a masterpiece.
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Masterpiece of chipgate
 
baller1308 said:
That Geekbench score though....

Now when you resell the phone people are going to ask which chip it has, lol.
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Yeah mine's Samsung so I'm trying to hunt down the same phone under reservation and exchange again. If I can't do so by the end of 14 days, I'm just gonna return it back.
 
acedout said:
Define 'real world'. Many users here are power users and hammering their phones with games and high cpu usage apps.
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'Real world' means you'll not turn off networking, dim your screen to lowest level, and surge you CPU usage to 100%.

The so called 'controlled environment' is a specially designed scenario that disabled most components for pure CPU performance test. You'll NOT be able to play games under that circumstance.

While you're playing games, CPUs is not the most significant power consumer, networking and screen are. And even you're hot in game you CPU usage would never be 100%; typical usage is 20% to 30%. Put all these together, the difference of CPU is irrelevant.

So no, you'll NOT notice the difference of battery life time, if you're a hardcore gamer.
 
JackANSI said:
How about someone who thinks this isn't a big deal (that has the TSMC chip inside theirs) trade me for my Samsung one? (only ran the samsung/TSMC app and reset, factory Apple plastic is still on it)

No takers? Thought so!
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Yeahhh...well I for one, I don't want to send my phone to some random poster on the internet. Will I really get one back in return?
 
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