can they just round up the mAh to whole number, instead of 1960 just 2,000 and call it a day...it irks me 
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iPhone 7 Could Feature 1,960 mAh Battery, a 14% Improvement Over iPhone 6s
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can they just round up the mAh to whole number, instead of 1960 just 2,000 and call it a day...it irks me
Hey, it's a battery not a hard drive. There's no rounding up in batteries.
They should get a big enough battery to be able to say it's double the battery life... Then even I might be tempted with this underwhelming looking phone
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Why not?Hey, it's a battery not a hard drive. There's no rounding up in batteries.
The Benchmark are 8% more battery life on their biggest phone compared to the 6s+, what you'd expect for a 8% bigger battery. So, what's your point?
Usage of phones is much more intense these days and that's why people complain about battery.
Battery life of devices have mostly gone up with time.
I hadn't used my phone very much the last few days (6P). It made it over three days without a charge and still had plenty of juice before I topped it off.
Battery life can be improved most through the software side. Doze is amazing.
No, really GREAT would be if you could double our real life.
s for the picture, I would believe it if it was blurry and the battery held by somebody with long fingernails.
This shot is definitely a fake! Lots of spelling errors in the Chinese and I don't even know or read Chinese.
To be spent on supporting the wireless headphones.
Apple giveth and Apple taketh away
Hey, it's a battery not a hard drive. There's no rounding up in batteries.
LOL I know but if only they could sprinkle some extra for us OCD folk
There is no point in doing that.can they just round up the mAh to whole number, instead of 1960 just 2,000 and call it a day...it irks me
1. If you gonna round it up, why not up it more to, let's say, 2050. Then someone will say "hey let's up it more to 2100". And the argument won't end.
2. It's not like the number 2000 is a special optimized number that will vastly improve everything on your phone. It's just one random number.
3. It isn't for convenience of advertising either. Because Apple never states the battery spec.
Yep still waiting, you mean you don't want 2013 tech for $3,000?
My signature says it all.
The reason Android phones have 3000 mah batteries that last only say, 20% longer than an iPhone is because of the inherent nature of Android. Android lets you peak beneath the hood, and lo and behold there are literally hundreds of services and little pieces of code waking up the phone for a few miliseconds to minutes at a time, all day long, every day. This is the reason why standby time is terrible and the reason people go, "well that's weird. The iPhone almost has as good as battery life as a phone with 75% more capacity." It's also interesting that Google itself is the biggest culprit with your phone checking in locations, uploading analytics, etc. Once you see that, you realize that indeed YOU are the product.
Apple has made the right choice here regarding a mobile OS. Even with doze, Android still has worse standby life than ios and it's the fault of Google and all the customization of the companies.
People who claim their android phones have great standby and long battery life: true, possibly, but not without literally days of tweaking and time sunk into reading about how to do this....when the primary goal is to bring the phone up to what the iPhone is out of the box.
But the Android phone is cheaper in general, and that is an insurmountable advantage for most of the world who are price sensitive.
The other thing that annoys me about Android is the 4 separate volumes. No one knows the difference between notification and system volume. And countless times when I've got headphones in, a notification comes in and scares the pants off of me because for some reason it's on high. Or same thing with media starting full blast. A notification coming in temporarily lowers the volume on ios so that it doesn't scare you. This sounds silly but is a small detail that I noticed immediately and quite frankly, makes the iPhone much more enjoyable. The basics, people. The basics. When I turn on Google maps routing in a quiet car, android: full blast volume and I hit the volume down button.....except it only silences the ringtone. There's mental overhead in going to the full sound bar and lowering the media volume, by the time of which people have woken up. This has never happened on ios before, ever.
The basics, people. Once you have the basics, then move onto the other stuff. Android has yet to grasp the basics, believe it or not.
AI they have an insurmountable lead, but if they never get the basics right, then what's the point?
Apple has made the right choice here regarding a mobile OS. Even with doze, Android still has worse standby life than ios and it's the fault of Google and all the customization of the companies.
People who claim their android phones have great standby and long battery life: true, possibly, but not without literally days of tweaking and time sunk into reading about how to do this....when the primary goal is to bring the phone up to what the iPhone is out of the box.
But the Android phone is cheaper in general, and that is an insurmountable advantage for most of the world who are price sensitive.
The other thing that annoys me about Android is the 4 separate volumes. No one knows the difference between notification and system volume. And countless times when I've got headphones in, a notification comes in and scares the pants off of me because for some reason it's on high. Or same thing with media starting full blast. A notification coming in temporarily lowers the volume on ios so that it doesn't scare you. This sounds silly but is a small detail that I noticed immediately and quite frankly, makes the iPhone much more enjoyable. The basics, people. The basics. When I turn on Google maps routing in a quiet car, android: full blast volume and I hit the volume down button.....except it only silences the ringtone. There's mental overhead in going to the full sound bar and lowering the media volume, by the time of which people have woken up. This has never happened on ios before, ever.
The basics, people. Once you have the basics, then move onto the other stuff. Android has yet to grasp the basics, believe it or not.
AI they have an insurmountable lead, but if they never get the basics right, then what's the point?
Yeah, sort of like how it's sad that iPhone performance has gone up between 50 and 100 times in 8 years. Without the battery needing to increase by the same amount to drive that performance.
You're forgetting that a big part of what allows that performance increase is the processor efficiency dictated by the fabrication process.
I like that the battery is getting bigger, but the time it's taking Apple to do so is too long in my opinion.
Created it myself, data on screen sizes and battery capacities from Wikipedia + some simple math.
Exactly!
You my friend are smoking something strong, my 6P can last a week sometimes between charges. I just took it on a 7 day cruise - I never once charged the damn thing.
The Android software allows you to tweak battery performance as you wish - and it's pretty damn good.
I think they should offer some special order items, just to see how interested people are in them.
I'd pay extra for these features. None would take much design changes from the main released models. It's just some extra "stuff" tacked in the back.
- 3000mAh model with bigger flash seems like it'd be pretty easy to do.
- A thicker model with an actual zoom lens (or two different lenses: one tele and one wide)
- An eInk back that can be used by apps like iBooks or Kindle reader (or just your alerts on the lock screen).
I'd pay extra for these features. None would take much design changes from the main released models. It's just some extra "stuff" tacked in the back.
Cool, now when I buy a battery case it'll last even longer since Apple doesn't give a damn about battery life. Thickness though, so important. Such a joke.
Every iPhone I've ever had I've had to charge multiple times a day. It's absurd. Luckily I work a desk job so I can do that, but if I didn't, I wouldn't even have one.
Every iPhone I've ever had I've had to charge multiple times a day. It's absurd. Luckily I work a desk job so I can do that, but if I didn't, I wouldn't even have one.
Batteries are ancient tech. They should really remove the battery to make room for something useful like a headphone jack plus making the phone smaller.
It's no big deal for people to only be able to use their phones when plugged into a wall out. And for the rare niche case where people need to use their phone on the go there's external batteries and battery cases.
It's no big deal for people to only be able to use their phones when plugged into a wall out. And for the rare niche case where people need to use their phone on the go there's external batteries and battery cases.
And you're forgetting that iPhone battery life in real world usage has gone up consistently over the years. Why a bigger battery if they can improve battery life through other means?
Why a thinner phone when they battery life is so short and the phones are already too thin to hold comfortably?