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iPhone 6 May See Only Modest Battery Capacity Boost as Apple Pursues Ultra-Slim Designs
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I thought it would be obvious, but obviously it isn't obvious so obviously I'm going to have to explain it more fully.
I don't understand why people don't like thin phones, I don't understand why they say they will drop them if they are thinner, and I don't understand why people that want thicker heavier phones with more battery life don't just put their phones in thicker heavier battery cases.
I'm clutching at straws here, but I thought perhaps the people who don't like, and can't properly hold onto, a thinner iPhone might themselves be extremely fat.
The reason being:
a) if they have a hand composed of 'fat little piggies' ( by which I mean fingers ) then perhaps this disables their clutching abilities, and thus the phone will fall to the floor. This could also explain why they don't purchase a case for the thinner iPhone, because they don't have the manual dexterity to get the phone into the case in the first place.
b) maybe human sapiens tend to like things that are proportional to their own bodies. So thin people like thin phones, people with tiny tiny feet like phones with a tiny tiny home button. People with evil looking red eyes that bleed in the night, like evil looking iPhones with red LEDs that bleed in the night.
etc..
Because that's far from true. When I put my 5S into my mophie air case, it becomes substantially thicker than the thickest iPhone ever. It looks like a pathetic android phone.
You clearly haven't thought this through very deeply. If the iPhone has gotten even an hour more surfing and phone time in every increment, forget it, even a half hour, we are now on the eighth increment, so how many hours did the original iPhone last? I have had every one, so I know. Every iPhone has lasted, in my use pattern which has not changed significantly, almost exactly the same amount of time. It is dead by five or 6 PM if I don't charge it at all during the day. If every model had been getting longer battery life than the one before it, we would have 12 to 16 hour battery life already, and I would actually be pleased with the battery life.
Me I'm satisfied with the battery life. I charge my phone while I'm at work and use it when I'm on the go.
Like you're supposed to do with mobile devices.
I must've missed the day when they told us all what we were supposed to do with mobile devices.
If you sit at a desk all day bathing in Wi-Fi or not moving from 3G tower to 3G Tower, you frankly have no idea what users do experience. So I'm glad you're satisfied with your battery life, but your opinion is not applicable to most of the 400 comments on this thread, which are apparently from people who are doing it wrong.
Yes, and your flight will be leaving, whilst you are undergoing the additional screening they warned.
Oh, you mean like EVERY BATTERY EVER?
Absolute rubbish. I have 142 apps on my phone and my battery runs great. I have never had to restore my phone to factory settings. You've probly got one app that runs in the background with a memory leak and so all iPhones have crappy batteries? You've gotta be kidding me!
I had linked elsewhere in this thread to AnandTech's most recent smartphone review and meant to do the same here. But that doesn't mean there is anything to hide. The iPhone still does great in battery performance testing. And the S5 came out just two months ago with nearly twice the battery size of the 5s with only modest gains while the iPhone 6 is right around the corner. So what's your point?
What I have noticed is how crappy my battery life became under ios7 on the iPhone 5. I can't picture it being different on the new iPhone. Ios7 is a huge battery drainer, imessaging for instance became a huge battery drainer.
I have a MacBook Air purchased in December 2010 that still gets great battery life.
I have an iPad 2 purchased the very first day they were released that still gets great battery life.
But my 18-month iPhone 5 can barely go half a day of moderate use without crapping out.
That's with the brightness turned down, and background app refresh turned off globally.
It wasn't like this when it was new.
oH NoeZ!!!
With the new law and iPhone 6 presumably having a small battery, I gotta say Samsung timed their commercial perfectly.
It isn't a law. It's a TSA directive, applying only from certain overseas airports.
What the hell are you on about? I'm going to take a guess you're like 12 years old?
Considering every iPhone in recent years had yielded very modest to no battery life gains, and plenty of those iterations had more efficient processors, I don't think much salt is needed. The screen is going to be using the most energy by far, and not only is it larger with a bigger backlight, it's going to be higher resolution as well, inherently requiring more power for itself, and more processor time to drive those pixels. You'd need a revolutionary breakthrough in efficiency to overcome those tradeoffs if you're expecting any significant gains in run-time over the 5S if the capacity rumors are indeed accurate.
There is nothing we need to know other then what I have said already, multiple times, FACT is a bigger battery equals better battery life, and Apple are going to miss a trick if they put a pathetically sized one in a 5.5" iPhone because Ive is obsessed with 0.2mm.
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So you've stated that a bigger battery will last longer, then tried to argue how it won't? What a confusing post
And I never stated how much longer a bigger battery will last.
Sorry that I was confusing: the statment I made "so it will last 24 hours at least right? Wrong!" implied that IT WILL NOT last longer, hence the "wrong!" at the end of the statement.
Sorry that you missed it.
Perhaps you also missed my other statements (that followed directly below) that talked about capacity and draw.
I'll try to reiterate my point again:
No one can determine the "battery life" in hours with ONLY knowing the capacity. you NEED to know BOTH the capacity and the amp DRAW; which no one knows for the next Iphone, so therefore no one can compare it to other phones.
Maybe the next Iphone has a 2500mAh battery and only has an average amp draw of 75mA (not likely) then that "pathetic" 2500mAh battery would last about 33 Hours!.
IN FACT; to me, it seems that a phone that can go longer on less charge would be a better choice, as it would take less time to charge and cost less to charge as well
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however, the fact that the battery size has only increased modestly (about 12% over last 6 years), and the run-time has remained the same (or slight increase) the 5s is something like 50 TIMES more powerful that the first gen Iphone, speaks wonders for the improvement sin efficiency.
Though suggests that apple is targeting the same/simmilar run time with it's next phones
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but looking at some battery life tests between the Galaxy s5 and the Iphone 5s, it appears that the Galaxy (in the specific tests performed) consumes between 1.70 - 1.87 Times the amps on average compared to the Iphone 5s (per gsmarena.com comparison)
so this equates to the Iphone 5s, with its battery on 55% of the size of an GS5 can actually handle about 20 minutes (3%) MORE web browsing and only about 30 Minutes less video (4%)
so these devices are essentially equivalent even though, again, the iphone only has 55% of the battery
so this equates to the Iphone 5s, with its battery on 55% of the size of an GS5 can actually handle about 20 minutes (3%) MORE web browsing and only about 30 Minutes less video (4%)
so these devices are essentially equivalent even though, again, the iphone only has 55% of the battery
Now look at other metrics like talk time/hot spot tethering and you'll see that the iPhone gets blown away. Essentially anything that doesn't require the screen to be on consistently. Things are a little closer when screens are on, but the iPhone doesn't look good comparatively until the screen is on AND there are graphics being processed which does not bode well for a larger iPhone and marginal battery improvement.
Apple should really get their priorities straight.
They have. They will make the iPhone as thin and light as possible with reasonable battery life instead of a bit thicker with great battery life. To Apple, the form factor is more important than battery life. And the consumer will complain but buy the phone in record numbers anyway.
Nope. Just echoing your pathological use of the word "obsessive". How old are you? 11?
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I like it! Hopefully the iPad will be similarly svelte.