I was simply asking you to clarify because as you can clearly see from just this thread there are plenty of technologically illiterate members here just waiting to pounce on statements they willfully misunderstand. I didn't want you to give them that opening to suck you into a semantic back and forth. Thought I was doing you a favor.
That’s funny, I see the opposite happening over here. But you have to consider that the iPhone 7 here (not the 7 plus) is even more expensive as a Samsung Galaxy S8. And when you compare those two, the decision is easily made.
Factually, from series 0/1 to series 2/3 it’s gone from 10.5mm to 11.4mm in thickness (was 8% thinner before).
Yeah, let's hope somewhere there's a team working on some breakthrough battery tech that will make staring often at your battery percentage during the day a thing of the past.
Figure out that problem and make a billion dollars! Seriously, companies are spending that yearly to bend, stretch, and squeeze the current tech as much as they can.
It was like a worrystone. I would catch myself just fidgeting with it because it was sized and curved just right. The curved backs back then felt more “touchy” than the very flat ones we have now.
It works well on my 7 unless I'm in a vehicle or shaky environment and I find myself pressing it and thinking nothing happened. Almost like it feels when it's off. And I have it on the highest setting.
Every so often it occurs to me that if I could take my iPhone back in time to the 12 year old Star Trek-loving version of me, and show it to young self, and explain what it can do, and then that as an iPhone 6 it's a 3 year old mass-produced model that's not up to current standards... twelve-year-old me would absolutely insist that such a device couldn't possibly be from the year 2017, but rather from 2517. Because it's so unbelievably far beyond the future that Star Trek painted for me (which got me into both electronic projects and programming). Back then, nobody had a computer at home, and computer storage was measured in kilobytes, and most computers were closer in size to refrigerators. The Apple II came out around then, with a mighty one megahertz 8-bit CPU. Now I've got a thin little rectangle with a photorealistic screen that's also the keyboard, gigabytes of storage, a 1.4 gigahertz 64-bit CPU, voice recognition, and it taps into an ever-present worldwide network that can nearly instantly answer any question, provide any piece of information, play any song or movie, and connect me with millions of other people (and we mostly use the technology for watching cat videos). To twelve year old me, the iPhone clearly won't be possible for at least another 500 years.
Battery technology has been improving every year. It could have been better but R&D is not lacking in this area. You forgot to mention that they crammed all the power hungry chips in there as well. If you put the new battery technology on that old iPhone. You can easily double the life of those devices.
