iPhone 8 With Longer Battery Life Said to Entice Those With Older iPhones to Upgrade

[Petereder]

Personally, I've reached a point where I actually try to reduce my smartphone use because it just takes away so much of my time. Therefore I don't need a bigger battery and I won't be upgrading to any new iPhone soon, especially not at 1000 bucks.

 

[Geeks]

I'll be upgrading. I'm on the yearly plan anyway, and it's best if I find issues before family members do. And, I'll be helping drive costs down for the rest of you waiting a cycle or two 🙂

 

[invisiblecube]

I'd love to upgrade. But I refuse to do so until they update their desktops.

 

[LordQ]

At this point where I only have 6 apps from the App Store (and actually use 3) I don't need a super powerful phone; the only thing that would make me upgrade is an amazing camera improvement and international expansion of services such as Apple Pay.

 

[BoltmanLives]

I liked when iPhones were $200.

Its ok you can now pay $41.58/mo and hit that $200 in 4.81 months, then only have 16.19 months to pay off the $869 Iphone7+ black (option to upgrade and continue the payments as a restart payments on a new iphone..for life)

 

[DrewDaHilp1]

I'll take a bigger battery over thinness.

 

[iapplelove]

Battery life is also effected with every new iOS release. I'm sure some software tweaks could improve battery life on older handsets.

But then that won't help the sale of new iPhones.

 

[tridley68]

Hope this is something that will happen my 7plus barely makes it till midnight everyday.

 

[pat500000]

I'm in need to get a next model. Had to skip out 7 plus.

 

[BoltmanLives]

At this point where I only have 6 apps from the App Store (and actually use 3) I don't need a super powerful phone; the only thing that would make me upgrade is an amazing camera improvement and international expansion of services such as Apple Pay.

"Amazing camera improvement" ..according to every keynote (and ads) it is, as for better services you know the answer to that one

 

[blackcrayon]

Gosh if only Apple announced their phones in January then they wouldn't be outdated. 🙁

I hear the competition is finally catching up to the A9 (and to the A8 for most of them). Outdated is relative.

 

[tillsbury]

Well I for one certainly hope that this set of rumours is true. If so, my 6 with its case that's slowly falling apart and held together with glue is going to be replaced 🙂 I wonder if it'll last until October...

 

[Mr. Mad Vibes]

Bigger battery! Didn't they learn from Samsung?

 

[9081094]

Bigger battery! Didn't they learn from Samsung?

Wouldn't be surprised if the battery is actually a rebadged Samsung with Apple logo on it. Half of the inner parts are Samsung anyway, lol.

 

[MyopicPaideia]

Actually not really sure how this is going to be huge. The reason the plus models have bigger batteries is because they drive bigger displays. Yes the Plus has longer battery life, but not revolutionary.

When you are putting a larger screen than the Plus on a chassis the size of the 4.7" phone, you NEED to find a way to put in a bigger battery just to maintain current battery life levels.

I wouldn't expect too much from this actually. Same goes for the RAM. Of course there will be 3G, the pixels that need to be driven are the same or greater than the current Plus model which was deemed to require that amount by Apple.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

No real need to upgrade.

 

[BoltmanLives]

Wouldn't be surprised if the battery is actually a rebadged Samsung with Apple logo on it. Half of the inner parts are Samsung anyway, lol.

Yup , on the hardware side most popular Iphone parts are from Samsung
On software side most popular software in AppStore is from Microsoft
On services side when possible, most popular is Google followed by Microsoft
On store side, Apple has stores
On Browser side ,most popular is Chrome

 

[FelixDerKater]

How about 10% more features users want vs thinner form factors?

 

[MrGuder]

Apple always does incremental increases on battery especially when it's a brand new model. They need room for future releases on same design.

 

[44267547]

Battery life is also effected with every new iOS release. I'm sure some software tweaks could improve battery life on older handsets.

But then that won't help the sale of new iPhones.

Not necessarily. iOS updates also slow down older devices, which ultimately result in those upgrading to a newer device, even if they battery was slightly improved. It can be frustrating for devices that underperform with updates that are meant to be improve the software efficiency.

 

[BvizioN]

Not at $1,000 it won't.

It seems like you have not been living in this plantet on the recent years. Price does not seem to stop from buying these who want to buy an Apple product.

 

[BeefCake 15]

I liked when iPhones were $200.

You should use future tense because it never happened...

 

[justperry]

I liked when iPhones were $200.

You never could buy an iPhone for $200, it's subsidised, you pay (the whole retail price) for it in your plan.

 

[tyr2]

At the moment I have a 'Smart Battery' case on my phone so I can get a decent days usage out of it without worrying, I use hotspot quite a lot. I'd much rather have a phone that had a decent battery in it in the first place. Hoping this might offer that.

 

[travelsheep]

If the entire iPhone 8 comes in L shape, I will buy one. I will be able to jerk my own knee with that hammer phone.