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iPhone 15 Lineup Rumored to Feature Significantly Larger Batteries [Updated]
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Base 256GB is the best news aside from USB-C this year.
Finally Tight ass Tim.
Finally Tight ass Tim.
I have a 13 Pro and I'm still undecided about upgrading. I certainly don't want a 6.7" screen. iPhones are already too big for many pockets. I like the idea of a titanium frame and a 3nm processor. But already the weight savings might not be that great. Again, we'll have to see when the phones are officually announced. But I can see myself waiting for a base iPhone 16.
More battery is good. Don't know how anyone can complain about that. If you think iPhone is too heavy then that's your problem.
Lots of good changes and I'm tempted to upgrade to the 15 Pro Max but my 12 Pro Max still works great.
Lots of good changes and I'm tempted to upgrade to the 15 Pro Max but my 12 Pro Max still works great.
I use the 12mini.
Last week I was visiting a larger city.
Using Airpods and Maps every now and then my phone would give me about 4-5h of usage.
That is just bad.
Imagine I was using an Apple Watch as well.
At this point iPhones are very far from having a great battery life.
My opinion.
Happy to hear your thoughts!
I dont care about additional ounces if it means better battery life.
But it looks like new chips might be really power hungry.
But it looks like new chips might be really power hungry.
Agreed. No way I'd ever go with a Max phone again, and I'd prefer smaller to bigger with any phone right now. If I go big and heavy again, I'd want it to be something like the Samsung Fold, where I'd at least get significantly more screen real estate for the weight difference. It doesn't help fit into smaller pockets though.
And wanting a bigger battery is your problem.
It's always trade-offs, like someone said earlier in the thread. We all have different ideas on what we want and need.
Great news if true. A bigger battery is always welcome for days of heavy use. Also, after about 6 months, my batteries tend to have degraded significantly, so a larger battery to start with helps there too
Wait for the price bump to $1099 for the base Pro
Good news all round. So many great phones have been killed by their terrible battery life.
If software (more than) eats up the gain in battery life due to the better battery, yes.
Pro models Also have more efficient chips, and LTPO displays.
Both of those features are not present in the standard iPhones, and both of those features are major efficiency boosters.
Also, the difference in capacity, especially coming from the bigger models is very small. We’re talking 60mAh, an insignificant amount.
None of that answers the question and is just deflecting. Apple cheaped out and could have included the bigger batteries.
I already get two days with my 13 Pro, so these will have some crazy battery life!
Still don't plan on upgrading, though.
Still don't plan on upgrading, though.
More battery life to compensate the current battery drain on 16.5.1? I'm in!
Very unlikely this is about cheaping out. It’s about design requirements and available space.
It isn’t expensive at all to make a battery a few percent bigger - in fact, if apple could meet design requirements and standardize the part across the models, they would probably prefer to do that
I think a price increase will happen if Apple upgrades the storage. I think that will be how a 256GB stays the same price as the 256GB 14 Pro Max. It just will be a higher cost to entry. I don’t know what the numbers are, but I have to assume that the majority of Pro iPhone users want more storage.
Sure he did.
That’s why when Apple finally caved to customer demands in 2014 for a bigger phone, it totally and completely tanked.
Oh wait, the 6 and 6+ actually became the fastest selling and most successful iPhones ever.
As a fellow Mini enjoyer, it’s not what the vast majority actually want.
Sucks, but it’s true, and let’s not pretend Steve wouldn't have done the same thing.
At the end of the day, the goal of the company was not to make Steve Jobs happy, it was to make the shareholders happy, as it still is today.
And the shareholders are happy when the most phones are being sold, and it just so happens that the majority of people want the biggest beefiest phone they can afford.
Meh I wanted a lighter phone. Who cares about battery all new phones can handle a day of use anyway.
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Excellent! Bigger batteries are always welcome. I don’t really care much for a lighter iPhone. The weight doesn’t bother me at all.
I'm rocking an Apple MagSafe Battery Pack with my 14 Pro since it barely made it through the day without it. A larger built in battery is definitely a good idea. 5G and the Always On Display are absolute hogs.
I am with you there.
My iPhone 13 is mostly fine (stays really cool).
The moment I go to my news website or to collider, and the pop-up videos and pop-up ads start bombarding the screen, my phone seems to triple or quadruple in hotness in a matter of seconds.
The heat is in the bottom half of the phone, and it gets hottest it seems in the bottom left side along the metal side case / rail. Not fun.
The pop-up blocker in Safari settings is either a joke, or it is overwhelmed by the throughput of pop-ups. That function should be in the top 5 most updated scripts / functions within Safari's code - with new pop-up blocking software updates each week or each month to stay current with all the new code people are writing daily to subvert blockers.
So I blame the pop-ups for causing my phone to go nuclear in my hand. But in truth, when the pop-ups start and the heat comes on strong, I don't know if the actual heat is due to an overwhelmed chip, not enough memory, taxed battery or a combo of all three.
A better battery is great. A bigger battery is great.
But I would prefer to have a solution that stops the heat or dissipates the heat before it impacts my ability to hold the phone. IE: additional physical heating/cooling management built in; or bigger memory; or a chip (CPU and graphics) that can overclock; or AI in the software to manage both the heat and the security breaking pop-ups; or a battery that does not get hot from being taxed by pop-ups that drain the battery as it works to supply juice to other phone functions; or all of the above.
Also a mini user and if I know I’m out and tight on battery I have the MagSafe battery. I only use it in a pinch, but I much prefer that option over a larger phone.