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iPhone 6 May See Only Modest Battery Capacity Boost as Apple Pursues Ultra-Slim Designs

Why the hell does everyone act so surprised and disappointed about this exact same story that's happened with every iPhone body change for the last 7 years?

At what point are we all going to figure this out and remember it?
 
I find this absolutely infuriating and I know I'm not the only one. How can this company continue to ignore what its customers ask for? Bigger screens and MUCH better battery life.

There is no real difference in the average person's hand between a device that's 7mm thick and one that's 12mm thick.
 
noob17 said:
Don't worry guys... this isn't the whole story...

yes capacity maybe modestly improved... but the software tweaks they will implement in the ios 8 gold master will dramatically improve battery life.
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/s tag missing?
 
"The iPhone is thin enough as it is!"

As soon as you pick up an iPhone 6 when it's released you'll change your minds, just like you have done every other year since 2007.
 
New charging technologies...

...may mean this is less of an issue. The iWatch will not be popular if it requires constant manual topping up, but if Apple have developed or improved upon charging technology, such as kinetic, solar, (long range) wireless etc, and introduce this into the new iPhones too, then it may be that the iPhone 6 will keep itself topped up constantly, or at the very least, when in motion.

Perhaps Apple have developed a tiny kinetic charging system? Now that would be a game changer, or should I say, a game charger! ;)
 
How Apple sees the iPhone.
 

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bushido said:
really? i charge mine at least twice a day, i got up at 10 am this morning, it is now 3:40 pm and i just had to plug it in to charge (at around 6%)
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Look at your apps closely. Mine was draining battery life like crazy for a brief time. I isolated a few apps that constantly ran GPS for no useful reason and turned off the GPS.

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services

I'm not downplaying the need for increased battery capacity in the new iPhone but your iPhone is obviously using a lot more power than you want than the average iPhone. Something is wrong or not setup right with your iPhone.
 
Samsung is already exploiting this battery issue in their latest tv commercials calling Apple iphone users "wall huggers".

Personally, I will wait to see what Apple actually does with the iphone 6 before I pass judgement.

I seriously doubt battery life won't be improved over the 5s somehow.

Combined with all the other rumored improvements, I have little doubt that the iphone 6 will be awesome and force samsung and others to play catch up.

Competition is good. I like this rivalry with samsung.
 
I really hope they don't make it thinner. I can't imagine many users who would actually want this given how thin the phone already is (which makes it difficult to hold and more droppable). I would FAR rather they made the phone shorter, by reducing the large space used by the home button and earphone/camera area. Other manufacturers have been able to do this.

Who is asking for this ultra-thin phone I wonder? Not me.
 
Thinner equals perception of higher-tech .....

Look at all the hype with the Moto Razr phones (either the original ones or the current models). MUCH of that had to do with the thin, sleek form-factor.

If you're willing to carry around a big, heavy "brick" of a phone, you can have all the battery life you need. But people generally don't want that (and it really makes more sense to just sell it in the form of a big battery case, for those who DO want it).

I'm not saying Apple shouldn't keep long battery life as an important goal .... but just saying I consider it a step forward if the iPhone 6 is slimmer than my 5s and still has the same or slightly better battery life.


Menopause said:
Now this makes me sad, Apple. Current iOS devices are thin enough. Better battery >>> Any thinner.
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I think we are missing several parts of this story.

First, note that the battery got 20% larger.

Second, one must consider what drains the battery: processor, radios/chipsets, screen backside illumination. We already known that Apple are changing the backside illumination which is bound to make it less power hungry. Apple introduced technologies such as co-processors in the iPhone 5S. I'm sure on no circumstances will battery life reduce. There's good reason to still hope for increased battery life with the 20% larger battery and improved/more efficient technologies.
 
MacDawg said:
My battery already lasts me all day... easily
And I charge every night so I start the day with a fresh charge

I am not opposed to better battery life, obviously, but battery life isn't an issue for me at all
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And where/how do you use your phone?

On a normal basis my iPhone 5 is on wifi 75% of the day and LTE the other 25%. Most days it's at around 20% by the end of the night (sometimes I'll run it out).

However, I recently took a trip to see family where I was not on wifi, and mostly 3G. On one particularly bad day where I had poor signal seeing family for two hours my phone was at 50% before I made it back to the car to charge it.

I would definitely prefer a larger battery over a slimmer profile. If Apple wants to keep getting slimmer then they should put some of their R&D into revolutionizing batteries.

On the plus side, iOS8 letting us see exactly which apps are doing what will help me eliminate some battery/data hogs.
 
Honestly the new Samsung commercial showing all the iPhone users tethered to the wall should sting Apple big time. This thin fetish needs to stop. I think it would be almost unanimous that Apple should just keep the thickness the same for once and put in a larger battery.
 
yokied said:
There is no real difference in the average person's hand between a device that's 7mm thick and one that's 12mm thick.
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The iPod Touch is only 1.5 mm thinner than the iPhone 5 and yet my iPhone gets super jealous whenever I start lovingly caressing an iPod. Both of us know I can tell the difference and it's intoxicating.

That emotional feeling is very real and it sells far more iPhones in stores than tech specs on web sites do.

I understand you're personally disappointed, but that's a very cold, hard truth that's hard to get around.
 
MacRumors:
Of course, these rumored battery capacities for the iPhone provide only part of the equation, with Apple's tight software-hardware integration also contributing to overall battery life. It is also possible that real-world battery life may be better than these speculated hardware specs imply due to underlying performance improvements added to iOS 8.
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But you'll run the story anyway because it's good for a couple hundred posts of outrage even though no one has the new phone to test out real world battery life. :rolleyes:
 
Let's wait to see the whole package come September. As the article stated, there's a few parts of the equation:
-physical battery capacity (apparently a 20% increase)
-display efficiency
-processor power draw
-optimizations, battery shaming, etc. in iOS 8.0
 
Jsameds said:
"The iPhone is thin enough as it is!"

As soon as you pick up an iPhone 6 when it's released you'll change your minds, just like you have done every other year since 2007.
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Well, my iPod feels too thin, and i'm always worried it's going to slip because it's hard to grab correctly.
I'd rather have something I can handle correctly and not to worry about it than something I'm always worried about.
 
Cali Fornia said:
One must not forget that the A8 will most likely be more energy-efficient and the display will also most likely not use up all the additional battery capacity.
Especially 2500mAh sounds quite promising actually.
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Exactly. Battery life is a function of battery capacity, component efficiency, and software optimization. Just plopping in bigger and bigger batteries without improving the other two just makes a heavier device-- the exact opposite of what you want in a mobile device.

All those complaining about Apple's supposed obsession with thinness conveniently ignore that bigger devices have a tendency to weigh more-- and Apple is right to try to keep the weight of the large screen devices down.
 
Maybe I’m the only one who considers thicker iPhones and iPads in the name of larger batteries to be upgrades. Stop making these things so thin that it impacts the amount of time I can use them. Not only that but it’s going to be a pain in the butt to replace batteries which I’ve had to do on a 13 month old lightly used iPhone. I could easily see Apple doing away with screws in the name of more glue in the quest for thinness. Using heat blowers and pry tools suck especially if the glass is already thin. Just look at the Surface 3 tear down where the glass broke by just trying to open the case.
 
Want cool? Get iphone

Want extra battery? Get crapndroid

Want cool with extra battery? Get iphone + external charger.

Tip: Can charge iphone while in the air in that cramped airplane.
 
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