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iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max All Feature Thicker and Heavier Single-Cell Batteries
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Macrumors: We want longer battery life!
Apple: Makes phone with longer battery life
Macrumors: Waahhh its way too heavy now
Apple: Makes phone with longer battery life
Macrumors: Waahhh its way too heavy now
Im no engineer, but looking at the back panel, there appears to be nothing under that black shielding, where you would expect to see coils. Apple would NEVER just slap hardware into the phone to take up that precious space. Hold your hopes for next year.
It's amazing that the batter is larger than the rest of the components put together. It says a lot about the state of technology.
don't know if you are joking but if you recall the Samsung trial, the discovery documents show that iPhones are on a 3 year R&D cycle - that Iphone 11 was finalized 2 years ago and Ives was still there - I don't think he cares either way.
I guess this is the trade off for no 3D Touch. I’m glad to have more battery life but do miss 3D Touch. Haptic touch just isn’t the same.
that's awesome. cause honestly, improved face id is one of the few attractive things about the new phone.
The iPhone 11 Pro is 11 g heavier than the Xs. With 7 g of that coming from the battery, the rest, 4 g, might come from the third camera, the square glass camera bump, the slightly thicker (taller?) steel frame (to account for the 0.4 mm increase in thickness) and a slightly larger lens (due to its faster f-stop) for the 52 mm equiv. camera.
The iPhone 11 Pro Max is 18 g heavier than the Xs Max, 15 g of which coming from the battery, leaving a 3 g delta coming from other sources. This 3 vs 4 g difference is likely due to rounding in the reported figures. The extra camera, larger 'tele' camera and glass camera bump should weight exactly the same in both iPhone 11 Pro models. The increase in weight coming from the steel frame is thus probably negligible (and could even be non-existent if the shape of it has been slightly altered).
I have a two year old iPhone X that has been heavily used (7+ hours a day) and fully charged more than 800 times with 91% battery health. That's a dramatic improvement for me compared to prior iPhones.
Maybe to Jonny Ive, it is. That’s probably why he called it quit.
He couldn’t handle the extra thickness.
Surely the larger 12mp sensor increases the viewing angle. i'll be impressed if it works when on a desk as at work i always have to pick it up to unlock it. which is a small cool improvement
No no, the hardware is entirely new
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It is not the normal front camera that affects the viewing angle. The IR camera and IR emitter are entirely changed. It indeed does work on a desk. I tested the early prototype of this last year
Apple on background already told Mashable that feature was not plan or build into this year's phone
"A person familiar with the matter told me it’s not something the company included and the inevitable teardowns of the phones won’t reveal any special coil for it. This highly positioned person at Apple also reminded me not to take all rumors as truth."
https://mashable.com/feature/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-review/
It doesn’t matter, bilateral charging is a silly gimmick that no one will use, ever
FYI....You’re Wrong
Think about it, if somebody can top off their Apple Watch or AirPods by using the bilateral charging with the phone, you’re telling others that wouldn’t use it? That’s a brilliant little feature that may not necessarily be a ‘game changer’, but would suffice for those travel or simply don’t have access to a Charger when they want the extra battery life for other devices. It has its potential for those who clearly will take advantage of this feature.
I use it often actually. It's a fantastic feature to charge headphones or other devices when it's just yourself out and about
For my iPhone X, coconutBattery shows a cycle count of 504 and 88% of the design capacity and the Settings > Battery > Battery Health section still says Peak Performance Capability. My iPhone 6 was down to 61% at 516 cycles, though it nosedived from there with 34% at 536 cycles (it should be noted that the battery age at that time was three years, whereas my iPhone X is obviously still below the two year mark).
I'm feeling optimistic that I'll get significantly more than 500 cycles out of my iPhone X battery. Though whether it lasts me a full three years (with let's say at least 60% design capacity), I'm not so sure.
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3D Touch was useless technology. Why do you think no competitors adopted it? They waited and saw that it ended up not being very useful. Apple never made a way to see which areas of the UI or apps featured any 3D Touch, and did an overall poor experience of spreading info about the feature. But the worst thing is that basically it’s a longpress. A longpress serves just about the entire same purpose, just eliminating the need for the 3D Touch gimmick in the first place...