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'iPhone 17 Air' Rumored to Feature 'High-Density' Battery
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What’s more interesting, with regard to the foldable Kuo says: “Touch ID returns as a side button, as Face ID may be absent due to thickness and internal space constraints.”
Makes sense, an XX-Wing phone.
I don't recall the details, but most high end Android phones this year have a new formulation in the battery department. It seems to be adding about 30% of the capacity in the same size.
I'm curious if this report is just that tech making its way into the iPhone next year
I would not expect Apple to honor that anniversary with a special design. Not current day Apple.
The obvious question then is surely, if you can fit a high battery capacity into a smaller volume than before, why wouldn't this technology be rolled out to the whole iPhone range (especially the Pro models)? Could it be that it is still fairly unproven so the iPhone Air owners will be guinea pigs?
Apple can't figure out battery life on their thicker phones so I highly doubt they are all of a sudden going to have it figured out for even thinner phones with less room for battery.
Oppo is already using this in their latest phones. That’s how they managed to make the Find N5 as thin as it is while still sporting a 5,600 battery
If they don’t, then it’s either due to manufacturing capacities, or to not make the Air look bad for it’s relatively shorter battery life.
Now take this HD battery and shove it into a 17 Pro Max. Thx.
This exactly. Why can’t this new tech come to the regular pro phones? Maybe that will happen next year with the iPhone 18 lineup?
I did not expect my next iPhone purchase to be this confusing. 🫤
Exactly, I think almost every Chinese manufacturer uses these new batteries nowadays.
I really want Apple to finally move on and also start using them.
I can only imagine how amazing iPhone 16 Pro would be with a battery like in the Vivo X200 Pro mini.
Both phones have 6.3" screen but Vivo's battery is 5700mah, that's a huge battery for such a "small" phone.
What is that even, a high density battery, this is a genuine question, I now it means literally a battery with a higher capacity, but how, there’s only that much one can do with lithium ion cells, how much more, 5%_10%, don’t think it will be much higher than a few percent, there’s lithium, you can’t really do much more with it with current technology.
Seems like the answer was mentioned before by others, silicon carbide batteries.
Seems like the answer was mentioned before by others, silicon carbide batteries.
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Android phones are moving to Silicon-Carbon batteries, which give about 30%-50% extra battery in the same volume. I'm assuming this is Apple adopting that.
If the iPhone 17 Air uses the C1 radio modem plus only one rear camera sensor, then Apple could put in a fairly large "thin" battery of around round 4,100 to 4,200 mAh. This plus the efficiency of the A19 SoC and the C1 radio modem chip means the same battery life as the iPhone 16 Plus per charge.
Please tell me it’ll be in this years Apple Watch Ultra as well with similar changes that were made to last years Apple Watch. It seems like there’s been minimal “rumors” for the watch this year
Ultraportable. But poor people can still buy the standard bulkier version for less.