Apple will positively not listen.
Unapologetically is the word you are looking for.
Apple will positively not listen.
I wish battery technology had seen a fraction of the improvement that cellular speeds had in the past 10 years.
It's the Achilles Heel of modern tech.
The fight for a better battery is lost with the craving to be thin as a stack of three DVDs.
The fight to be as thin as possible is lost when almost every consumer (not just Apple) pads it up with a case, mainly to prevent slippery gadgets!
I thought cutting battery size was an odd thing to do.
Now with a phone out that is water resistant, perhaps Jony needs to go swimming more?
I think that it would still be too thick for JonyYou mean transparent, maybe....
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I think you need to speak to the laws of physics, not Apple, on this one. The constant bumping up against those laws is why battery tech hasn't improved for decades.
At every step of the journey from the data center to your phone there is a bottleneck
In a world where people upgrade their phone every 2-3 years, a 450Mbps LTE chip doesn't make for much of a selling point. No carrier is going to get anywhere close that during the lifetime of the device. What I am interested in, however, is the part about the 14-nanometer process and what that means for increased battery life.
It would be cool to see Intel fabbing A-series chips someday so that Apple can reduce reliance on Samsung. I've been a fan of Intel since I was a kid and my grandpa would open up his 486 (and old 386) and show me how it works.
You're confusing and misunderstanding a bunch of things there. LTE is 4G. It's always been 4G, from the very start. What AT&T is calling "4G" and what they lobbied for is HSPA+, which is an extension of UMTS (i.e. 3G).Just like to point out that LTE is really 3G+, and LTE Advanced is real 4G. Despite the fact that companies are calling LTE 4G, it isn't. They lobbied the 4G working group, several years ago to allow them to call LTE 4G, and they were told yes.
Rather have improved battery life than better LTE chip.
Some people, like me, like to have thin and light phones. My phone is something that I carry around with me the whole day. The thicker and heavier it gets, the more inconvenient it is. I am not planning any trips through the desert for the foreseeable future, so I am usually able to charge my phone once a day, which is definitely good enough.Never understood why the iPhone needs to be so thin.
Yes, yes, that's all fine, but at one point, why do you still want to make it thinner?Some people, like me, like to have thin and light phones. My phone is something that I carry around with me the whole day. The thicker and heavier it gets, the more inconvenient it is. I am not planning any trips through the desert for the foreseeable future, so I am usually able to charge my phone once a day, which is definitely good enough.
Now some people are away from civilization for a longer period of time, so they understandably need more battery life. They can buy battery cases for their phone or bring portable batteries. As they are apparently willing to sacrifice size and weight for battery life, that should not be an issue.
So I really don't see what the problem is.
If Apple increases the battery size, then everyone will have a thicker and heavier phone. Now with the smaller battery size, the people who want a thin and light phone can have it, while the people who want a thick and heavy phone can have that as well. It's called "choice".
But Apple would offer a battery case with a cool hump, just for extra $$$Rest assured that even if we have an absolute amazing battery tech ready, with double power capacity in same size, we can be certain that Sir Jony will slice the iPhone for his anorexic behavioural pattern to achieve thinness and give us same or less battery life as the last iPhone.![]()
Does this mean it will work just a reliably as the wifi chip in macs =/
No Mac is using wireless NIC's from Intel. It's all Broadcom for the past five or so years, and some Atheros / Qualcomm-Atheros combined with Broadcom the years before.
Knowing MR people, it's going to be another "OMG I got stuck with a crappy Samsung A9 chip on my iPhone 6s!! Arrrgh! Everyone said that the Taiwanese chip was like 0.0005% better!! I got ripped!!"Good Grief! Two chip vendors for your LTE Modem! Two chip vendors for your processor!....Does anyone else but myself see something wrong with having too many cooks in the kitchen with this? Imaging the quality control that has to happen here.....Hoping nothing goes wrong if they go this route...
Good Grief! Two chip vendors for your LTE Modem! Two chip vendors for your processor!....Does anyone else but myself see something wrong with having too many cooks in the kitchen with this? Imaging the quality control that has to happen here.....Hoping nothing goes wrong if they go this route...
Pajjuri said that Intel has secured a "significant portion" of the LTE chips, likely in the range of 30 to 40 percent of production. Qualcomm will likely be tasked with the remaining orders.
good to know. They suck haha.