Two such exciting things in this story if true.
1 - Apple seemingly putting a high priority on getting bigger batteries into the next iPhone. This could be a very good time for Apple to play the battery-life card if reports are true that the latest release of Android takes 10% off the battery life of Samsung Galaxy s7/s7-Edge (http://www.talkandroid.com/309651-b...ge-is-reportedly-10-down-after-nougat-update/). If Apple could coordinate this bigger battery with really doubling-down of extracting every last bit of power efficiency from iOS 11 and really focusing on the low-load/idle efficiency of the A11 & other components they might be able to do something very significant vs the competition this year.
2 - The fact that the high-end OLED model might be closer to the size of the current 4.7" model and not the 5.5" Plus model. The plus model is just too big for me.
When all the rumours were pointing to a possible OLED full-face screen only being for a plus-sized phone I was thinking "I'll definitely be sitting this one out and staying with my 6s for another year or maybe even going across to Android if a compelling mid-sized long battery life Android phone comes out in 2017" but if the above rumours do turn into reality then I will almost certainly upgrade my iPhone this year. It would be good timing from Apple because really I have been getting closer and closer to drifting over to the Android world in the last couple of years.
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Everyone is different but for me that's exactly what I do. I use my iPhone 6s as my ebook reader so I do spend a lot of time looking at a switched-on screen for hours on end. For me about the first thing I look at on a new iPhone's spec is how much battery life they claim for playing video since that is the closest proxy for ebook reading in the battery life specs that Apple release for each model.
I love using my phone for reading. I only use it for fiction where one word comes after another, no need to flip around like in a text book, so I don't find a small screen interferes with my reading experience in any way. I've been reading ebooks on my phone since my iPhone 4 (actually before that on Palm Pilots) and I love the way that having my books on my phone means that I have my whole library with me absolutely all the time if I miss a train or a queue for something is longer than expected.
ebooks are the sole reason why I am somewhat obsessed with battery life on my phone.
1 - Apple seemingly putting a high priority on getting bigger batteries into the next iPhone. This could be a very good time for Apple to play the battery-life card if reports are true that the latest release of Android takes 10% off the battery life of Samsung Galaxy s7/s7-Edge (http://www.talkandroid.com/309651-b...ge-is-reportedly-10-down-after-nougat-update/). If Apple could coordinate this bigger battery with really doubling-down of extracting every last bit of power efficiency from iOS 11 and really focusing on the low-load/idle efficiency of the A11 & other components they might be able to do something very significant vs the competition this year.
2 - The fact that the high-end OLED model might be closer to the size of the current 4.7" model and not the 5.5" Plus model. The plus model is just too big for me.
When all the rumours were pointing to a possible OLED full-face screen only being for a plus-sized phone I was thinking "I'll definitely be sitting this one out and staying with my 6s for another year or maybe even going across to Android if a compelling mid-sized long battery life Android phone comes out in 2017" but if the above rumours do turn into reality then I will almost certainly upgrade my iPhone this year. It would be good timing from Apple because really I have been getting closer and closer to drifting over to the Android world in the last couple of years.
[doublepost=1487072107][/doublepost]
Everyone is different but for me that's exactly what I do. I use my iPhone 6s as my ebook reader so I do spend a lot of time looking at a switched-on screen for hours on end. For me about the first thing I look at on a new iPhone's spec is how much battery life they claim for playing video since that is the closest proxy for ebook reading in the battery life specs that Apple release for each model.
I love using my phone for reading. I only use it for fiction where one word comes after another, no need to flip around like in a text book, so I don't find a small screen interferes with my reading experience in any way. I've been reading ebooks on my phone since my iPhone 4 (actually before that on Palm Pilots) and I love the way that having my books on my phone means that I have my whole library with me absolutely all the time if I miss a train or a queue for something is longer than expected.
ebooks are the sole reason why I am somewhat obsessed with battery life on my phone.
