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iPhone 7 Could Feature 1,960 mAh Battery, a 14% Improvement Over iPhone 6s

So what gimmick are the introducing that will result in the 7 having the same battery life as the 6......
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EricTheHalfBee said:
Wrong. Bose Wireless headphones get 15 hours on a 240mA battery. That covers the Bluetooth wireless signal AND the amplifier to drive the headphones. The iPhone 6S battery is 7 times larger in capacity and it will only have to power the Bluetooth signal (not the headphone drivers themselves).

As I explained in the other thread about Lightning headphones, the rest of your iPhone (screen, processor, electronics) consumes FAR more power than either BT or even direct connected headphones ever would.
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Typical response. I actually use my phone for work. My typical 2 days involves around 4-4.5 hours each day of usage time on my phone, primarily in Safari (connecting to corporate servers to access & download documents), e-mail, iMessage and phone calls. Take off charge at 6:00am on Monday and down to 10% by 11:00pm Tuesday for a total of 8-9 hours usage and the rest in standby.

Sounds to me like some of you:

A) Have defective iPhones with bad batteries.
B) Don't know how to manage battery use and have Apps like Facebook constantly sucking your battery dry in the background checking for updates or accessing your GPS.




Define a "lot" of people? Do you mean whiners on Internet forums who claim to represent the majority of users with their odd use-cases? Those same people who say they won't buy the next iPhone unless it has a bigger battery, has 32GB for the base storage or any other number of "fake" dealbreaker reasons they can come up with to announce to the world they're not going to buy/are not satisfied with their iPhone?

Which game drains your battery that fast? And on which iPhone model?


I see a lot of people here claiming poor battery life. So why don't you all post up screenshots of your battery usage stats from your iPhones and show us how poor your battery life is (and let us see what Apps are consuming all that power).
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Moving users from a 3.5mm headphone jack to using BT = more battery life used by the phone , the headphones are not the issue.

My issue with BT is poorer sound quality over wired , using exactly the same headphone. Not to mention having to charge the battery in two devices. An evening ritual of charging a phone, watch and headphones is a step backwards in my opinion, especially from my MacBook with one usb-c port when I'm on a business trip....
 
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Andres Cantu said:
A bit sad that the iPhone's battery has only gone up 315mAh in 8 years.
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mAh is completely meaningless.

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Both the iPhone SE and 5S have practically the same battery capacity, yet the newer SE has 68% more battery life.

That's in only 3 years!!!

Yet, people keep talking about capacities.

Capacity is only ONE variable of the equation of many!

For example, a Tesla has more range at 30mph, than at 60mph.
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MH01 said:
So what gimmick are the introducing that will result in the 7 having the same battery life as the 6……
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This is not Samsung, Apple has always improved battery life

Moving users from a 3.5mm headphone jack to using BT = more battery life used by the phone , the headphones are not the issue.
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No, the headphones consume more power than the Bluetooth transceiver.
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geoff5093 said:
Android phones have had 3000+ batteries in phones not much larger than the iPhone 6s. I know the iPhone is much more efficient, but imagine how great it would be if you could double your battery life.
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The problem is that they are much thicker.
 
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What's the point of this? You remove the headphone jack and bluetooth and WiFi will sap the living crap out of that pathetic battery.
 
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Meanwhile the note 7 is expected to have 4000 while bigger the point is its no surprise battery life should get better with each new phone

The plus version battery life is good. Time for the regular model to catch up
 
Keane16 said:
Probably true. They always try to put bigger batteries in (regardless of tired internet chatter).

iPhone - 1,400 mAh
iPhone 3G - 1,150 mAh
iPhone 3GS - 1,219 mAh
iPhone 4 - 1,420 mAh
iPhone 4S - 1,432 mAh
iPhone 5 - 1,440 mAh
iPhone 5C - 1,507 mAh
iPhone 5S - 1,570 mAh
iPhone 6 - 1,810 mAh
iPhone 6 Plus - 2,915 mAh
iPhone 6s - 1,715 mAh
iPhone 6s Plus - 2,750 mAh

The anomalies have been when the phones actually got thicker OG to 3G. And 6 to 6S the batteries decreased as the space was used for other components.
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The increase has been linear at best (in the regular line, not the plus line). And that increase almost completely ends up being used for the accompanying additional screen pixel increase, as well as additional animations, etc.

The actual battery life remains less than a workday of moderate use.
 
Willf1987 said:
What's the point of this? You remove the headphone jack and bluetooth and WiFi will sap the living crap out of that pathetic battery.
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Use Lightning headphones. They won't sap the battery any more than legacy headphones.

Removing the headphone jack doesn't make Bluetooth any more or less efficient.

If wifi is your issue, turn it off. If you need wifi, leave it turned on. It's unfortunate that the next iPhone will not allow you to receive your wifi through the headphone jack (curse you, Tim, for that). People who are used to getting their wifi through the headphone jack are not going to be happy, let me tell you.
 
If you want to save power and improve battery life, remove the display not the headphone jack. And this would also solve all audio/video sync issues and make the whole device lighter and skinnier. Come on Apple...think different!!!
 
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If the 6S can have a 6% smaller battery with the same battery life plus all the extra power from the A9 chip then a phone with an even more efficient processor with a 14% bigger battery will most likely give around 20% more battery life over the existing 6S.

Unless Apple ups the resolution of the display, of course..
 
geoff5093 said:
Android phones have had 3000+ batteries in phones not much larger than the iPhone 6s. I know the iPhone is much more efficient, but imagine how great it would be if you could double your battery life.
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seriously. they would easily beat any other phone. they are wasting a big advantage.
 
That's a good news. I'm pretty satisfied with my iPhone's battery life but I wouldn't say no to a 20% increase. A slightly bigger battery is the step in the right direction, let's hope it is true!
 
Zirel said:
mAh is completely meaningless.

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Both the iPhone SE and 5S have practically the same battery capacity, yet the newer SE has 68% more battery life.

That's in only 3 years!!!

Yet, people keep talking about capacities.

Capacity is only ONE variable of the equation of many!

For example, a Tesla has more range at 30mph, than at 60mph.
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This is not Samsung, Apple has always improved battery life



No, the headphones consume more power than the Bluetooth transceiver.
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The problem is that they are much thicker.
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Now I suggest you look at the review of the Galaxy s7. Work on facts mate.
 
Just make it slightly thicker to fit a lager battery and remove the camera bump. Add a more power efficent A10 chip and maybe a less power consuming AMOLED-panel. I don't want to buy a larger iPhone Plus just for the battery life.
 
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My S7 had amazing battery life at the beginning. Not even 1 Month later it still gets me easily through the day, but not alot of battery left when i go to bed. Not sure why. Did not change my usage pattern.
 
EricTheHalfBee said:
I see a lot of people here claiming poor battery life. So why don't you all post up screenshots of your battery usage stats from your iPhones and show us how poor your battery life is (and let us see what Apps are consuming all that power).
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No need, there are plently of treats about this in different iOS sub forums on here. I owned almost every iPhone since the 3G days and i have never ever gotten more than 7 hours of usage on any iPhone.

Push disabled, most location based services disabled (none set to "always"), hand off disabled, bluetooth disabled, background refresh disabled, reset all settings every 2 month or so and a clean install wothout a backup every half year or so.

Charged mine 2 times yesterday, so i always carry 3 powerbanks around
 
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unagimiyagi said:
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.
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It's certainly a better system than what iOS has.

Let's see... I want to up the ringtone volume, but I have to open multi-task to close out YouTube first since it'll only let me control the volume of the video I'm watching.

Hm, I want my alarm to be at a volume that will wake me up? Guess I'll have to figure out which programs I need to close first before I can jack the volume up to a reasonable level. Not sure why iOS doesn't just let you control alarm volume from the clock app, and after all of these years, Apple still hasn't figured out that simple, user-friendly feature.

At least with Android I can see all of my "media" "alarm" and "ringtone" volumes in one place, and adjust accordingly without having to jump through hoops first.
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unagimiyagi said:
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.
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Hilarious. Android is more advanced than iOS will ever be.

iOS can't even get third party keyboards or volume control correct, and here you are sticking up for iOS.

If you're going to make an argument, at least don't appear biased.
 
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