Either you are a super duper power user or you have a defective phone if that's the case.
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iPhone 8 Said to Pack Battery Capacity of Current 5.5-Inch Model Into 4.7-Inch Form Factor
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Either you are a super duper power user or you have a defective phone if that's the case.
It isn't true? So you know what I will do in the future? Amazing, considering you know literally nothing about me.
What makes you think Apple isn't investing / investigating new battery technology? Since so much of their business is battery operated devices, I'd find it extremely unlikely that they aren't. It doesn't mean it's ready for mass adoption yet (and there isn't anyplace they should be more conservative than with batteries).
Besides, any improvements they make now with space would translate into whatever new battery tech arrives.
They are predicting that there will be no bezels at the top or bottom, and not physical buttons.
Nah your payment will go from ~$45 per month for your device to `$55 per month..that's two Chai lattes.
Apple users are used to paying monthly for Cars, Houses and iPhones just another bill.
I guarantee they're focusing on it, along with lots of other companies. A battery breakthrough would be huge for any company that figures it out. From tiny devices to electric cars.
The problem is that at the moment, most all the micro-optimizations have been engineered into current rechargeable batteries. We need fundamental breakthroughs in chemistry and physics to get to the next level and those don't just happen overnight.
I am sure for some it doesn't matter, for the rest of us it does matter. Some people might be okay with an ever increasing price, good for them, many of us have what is called a "budget" and even pushing $1 a month over that budget isn't acceptable.
People won't "stop buying it." Carriers will just invent s better mouse trap and make people think it costs $199. Meanwhile those customers will pay the full price over time and not realize it.
I am sure for some it doesn't matter, for the rest of us it does matter. Some people might be okay with an ever increasing price, good for them, many of us have what is called a "budget" and even pushing $1 a month over that budget isn't acceptable.
I have faith in your post that some can do math and not just eat up what apl says. Most I spent on a phone was $298 personally for better metrics than the iPhone.
Subsides proved many do not know math, same with these new "phone a year" (rent a phone for life) plans
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It's because Apple is a large company will invest a larger amount of their resources to discover a better battery, that's not gonna happen. I'm sure there are some researchers that do that job to improve battery technology. Some companies maybe smaller than Apple but they invest 100% of their resources in discovering to improve the battery technology. As much as I love Apple, I don't want them to keep such discovery to themselves. I like a battery to be improve in a way that will be open to all kinds of technology available.
"Apple has always stood for innovation. To protect our inventions, we have patented many of the new technologies in these groundbreaking and category-defining products. In the rare cases when we take legal action over a patent dispute, it’s only as a last resort.
We think companies should dream up their own products rather than willfully copying ours, and in August a jury in California reached the same conclusion."
-Steve Jobs
I like my iPhone but the price is already at the limit for me. I'll be keeping it at least another year or two and then I'll see what the landscape looks like.
There have already been a significant number of breakthroughs in battery technologies in recent years. Here are some from the past few MONTHS:
August: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/18/battery-breakthrough-could-double-your-phones-life/
November: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ugh-will-let-phones-charge-seconds-last-week/ (admittedly this won't be ready for a while)
January: http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcoch...ut-lithium-ions-explosive-risks/#37d3456c5ae3
3 days ago: http://www.treehugger.com/clean-tec...-be-low-cost-home-solar-storage-solution.html
Today: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4219518/New-battery-store-charge-TEN-years.html
There must be some bezel at the top for speaker and frontcamera. The tech for integrating cameras and speakers in-screen could be evolved already, but not to the point where you can equip 150 million or more iphones with it.
There will be 2 iPhones this year not 3, the 4.7 will become 5 inch and the 5.5 will become 5.8 inch with the oled screens and same dimensions as the current iPhones, this new way of fitting bigger capacity batteries, if true, is a big welcome along with more efficient oled screen, 10nm chip tech, graphics chip, Bluetooth etc, should be a big improvement to both phones
I'm not implying anything, I'm just starting that hopefully I'll be able to make it past 2PM on a single charge. I've personally never met anyone with a 4.7in iPhone whether 6, 6S, or 7 who uses their phones, that made it through an entire day from 8AM to 11PM on a single charge. Mine is typically on ~20% by 2PM. Yes, I believe iPhones should be thicker with a larger battery and I believe most people would be happy with that.
Since you know how Apple works, you also know they won't include half baked technologies, just to be the first in anything.
When the time comes and the cost to benefit ratio is right for them, they'll include whatever makes THEIR product work the way they want it to work.
Until then, I consider statements to just knock Apple without knowing any facts just negative. I will agree that neither one of us know whether they put a priority on developing battery alternatives.