I don't think it's actually a problem, just an observation that Apple seems to have achieved their target battery life some time ago.
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iPhone 15 Could Feature Stacked Battery Technology [Updated]
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I don't think it's actually a problem, just an observation that Apple seems to have achieved their target battery life some time ago.
My guess would be that the manufacturing capacity for batteries of this size hasn’t scaled yet to support tens of millions of devices a year yet.
Generally the challenge in manufacturing is miniaturization of techniques and processes. Which is why it would make sense that larger battery sizes have made it to market first.
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Imagine if iPhone 15 Pro Max comes with removable AA batteries.
Batteries are sold separately*
Batteries are sold separately*
there has been a huge jump from IOS 15 to 16 for me, was having a dead phone at 7pm, now at bed at 11pm I still have 25% left..
The EU and their sycophants probably don’t remember the OG Game Boy using 4 AA batteries and it lasted only like 8 hours.
“bUt I cAn ReMoVe mY bAtTeRiEs!”
That's not how it works. Don't jump on this disinformation train. It can be easily water resistant with easily user-replaceable battery.
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I like, big, batteries and I cannot lie.
Maybe you are using Instagram, Snapchat, and FaceBook nonstop. YouTube videos aren't helping as well.
Little different - they just stacked different sized sheets so they could terrace the battery into the bottom case.
They don't exist yet, at least not practically. They've been "2 years away" for 10+ years.
Always welcome. Maybe now I’ll only get as low as 65% at the end of the day instead of 50%.
If it improves performance, weight, charging time or all three I'm all for it - as long as all-day usage is still achievable.
Basically I'm all for it if it can be implemented without compromises.
Basically I'm all for it if it can be implemented without compromises.
Nah I use the phone how it's intended and the battery is garbage. A simple Google Search also reveals the same. You can simp for apple all you want but the iPhone battery has been going backward since the 12 series (the 11 was the last phone with a really good battery life).
My father had a Motorola flip phone in the mid nineties that actually had an "emergency battery" that was a battery that would hold 6 AA batteries.
Apple's battery management is so clever that at 10 months, my iPhone is still at 100% max battery without me having to take any extraordinary steps. That's why they may never go down that route.
Oof big mood…I was rather excited to get my Pandemic iPhone 12 pro and pull the trigger that year…all I can think of since is how the battery was WORSE than my iPhone 8 out of the gate….ugh….and now my battery at 80% efficiency from age is hardly usable.Is this going to be one of the years where iPhones have good batteries? I'm so hyped
(I still have flashbacks to when 2019's iPhone 11 had great battery life and then 2020's iPhone 12... didn't.)
Basically limping across the finish line this year for a new phone REGARDLESS as a result, but yeah feeling that iPhone 15 battery love is really jazzing me up (hopeful apple doesn't have another year like the 12 ever again; wont buy a new phone a mere year later and I HATED finding such a simple bottleneck)
Maybe, maybe not. Apple does have good and bad form on this.Is this going to be one of the years where iPhones have good batteries? I'm so hyped
(I still have flashbacks to when 2019's iPhone 11 had great battery life and then 2020's iPhone 12... didn't.)
When Apple added the haptic engine in whatever year that was that took up quite a lot of room in the chassis so that year the battery size and capacity also got smaller compared to the previous year. I'm a Pro Max user and while I definitely want the higher optical zoom that the rumoured periscope lens will give me I'm also a bit worried that this might be another "haptic engine moment". Perhaps though with this stacked battery technology allowing capacity per unit volume (e.g. cubic centimetre) to be increased vs the current 14 Pro Max battery technology then if this rumour is true that might at least offset any battery volume "stolen" by the periscope lens and maybe even manage to allow Apple to continue year-on-year gains in battery life. I certainly hope so.
And come to think of it, with that rumour that the periscope lens will only be for the Pro Max (maybe called Ultra) this year that might be the only model that does have some extra internal space challenges re battery size this year so, if this stacked technology is more expensive, perhaps it will only be used in the 15 Pro Max this year.