Do you realize that your napkin calculation assumes that the screen power use would represent exactly 100% of the entire power consumption of the device?
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Do you realize that your napkin calculation assumes that the screen power use would represent exactly 100% of the entire power consumption of the device?
Sounds awesome! Sadly, despite all the "black magic" you're talking about, the iPhone still has sub par battery life compared to all these "OEMs Android" devices, and Lumia phones. Honest iPhone users know it's true and they know Apple must do something about this problem (Apple boards are full of people complaining about the poor battery life of their iPhone)
And you're talking to someone who is happy with his MacBook Pro, and has had many iPhones in the past (3G, 4, 4S, 5), before switching to the Note 3. I'm not an hater... I'm just someone who tried iPhones and Android phones, and noticed his Note 3 had crazy battery life compared to his "old" iPhone 5
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All other components beyond the screen would use the same or less power than their current counterparts, theoretically.
I had to turn 4G off, otherwise I would literally see the battery dropping every minute, amazing...
God bless the down vote button!
God bless the down vote button!
sounds like your phone is broken -- i get 24 hours+ on a charge, and i use my phone throughout the day for surfing, facebook, a few calls, a few other apps, and plenty of texting. i consider that actually using it.
1810 mAh battery is disappointing if its true. So basically it will have the same battery life as the 5S. The only reason it has been bumped up a bit is to power the bigger screen.
20% more battery life for a 20% bigger screen.
And you're implying that the only thing in the device that uses battery is the screen meaning there is no actual battery life improvement?
I'm sure Apple will be utterly devastated to lose you as a customer. Really, you might just cause poor ol' Tim Cook's heart to give out from depression.
I'm saying a bigger screen needs a bigger battery to maintain the same levels of battery usage times. The increase in mAh might only be for the increase in screen size. A 1810 mAh battery in the 4.7" iPhone 6 might give us the same battery life as our current iPhones (5 to 7 hours depending how you use it)
The screen is the one that draws mostly all the power. Combine this with playing a 3D game and well there goes your battery. So basically all the extra mAh that the battery has will go to the screen and everything else will be the same as the 5S in terms of battery life.
@Prof. beat me to it lol
Im pretty sure theyll do just fine
Was I ranting about anything? I think not. Its just that I am a heavy user and I need my phone to last all day despite my heavy usage. my 5 does not.
Well this battery is not really a confirmed fact, and we don't yet know if the new processor will have some sort of new tricks enabling it to manage power better than the current generation.
But the Apple obsession with thinness above all else is concerning.
So I won't be ordering without seeing some reviews of the new device; battery life has to be better than now for me.
Up until now I've always ordered the new iPhone models (with one exception) as soon as they were available to order online.
But the Apple obsession with thinness above all else is concerning.
So I won't be ordering without seeing some reviews of the new device; battery life has to be better than now for me.
Up until now I've always ordered the new iPhone models (with one exception) as soon as they were available to order online.
This is a bit overly simplified.
There is more to light transmission than just the index of refraction. This link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_and_translucency, isn't too bad in explaining some of the material characteristics that impact opacity.
In any event it is possible to treat, alloy if you will, Sapphire to increase light transmission. Considering all the factors involved it would probably be best to see what Apple actually ships.
It might be better to look at sites that have a little more strength when it comes to understanding optics and materials. Until we know what Apple is actually shipping it is at best guess work to say the screen will transmit less light then one based on Gorila Glass. We need to know things like how thick is the window, is it treated in any way, is it a lamination and etc.
There is more to light transmission than just the index of refraction. This link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_and_translucency, isn't too bad in explaining some of the material characteristics that impact opacity.
In any event it is possible to treat, alloy if you will, Sapphire to increase light transmission. Considering all the factors involved it would probably be best to see what Apple actually ships.
There is more to it then just looking at the refractive index number. The refractive index is related to material desnity but there are electro optical behaviors that impact transmission also.
It might be better to look at sites that have a little more strength when it comes to understanding optics and materials. Until we know what Apple is actually shipping it is at best guess work to say the screen will transmit less light then one based on Gorila Glass. We need to know things like how thick is the window, is it treated in any way, is it a lamination and etc.
the screen is ehat needs those tricks.
most usage is with the screen on (phone calls and music are about the only things I can think of that negate that statement). Currently the screen is by far the most power hungry component.
To be honest, the fact apple are still chasing thinness is better than them putting design second to specs.
After all, one of the key aspects that sets Apple apart is that it isn't designers putting components in a pretty box - the designs come first, and are linked to how a product works. This hasn't changed in the Tim Cook era, and no one seems to care.
After all, one of the key aspects that sets Apple apart is that it isn't designers putting components in a pretty box - the designs come first, and are linked to how a product works. This hasn't changed in the Tim Cook era, and no one seems to care.
This should be obvious, there are too many "don't knows" to make a judgement on screen power usage. We don't know the technology used in the screen, we don't know the pixel size we know nothing about the backlight technique nor the LEDs actually used in the back light. Just consider how much better LEDs get every year and you have one big factor right there.
As for the leak being fake - nothing you relate to above has any impact on the leak.
True the screen uses lots of power which also makes it one point where modest tweaks in performance can have a big pay off. However this doesn't mean that the rest of the system isn't important, especially considering that most iPhones run with the screen off not on.
As for the leak being fake - nothing you relate to above has any impact on the leak.
Just when I though society stopped comparing megapixels and gigahertz, and focused on results rather than specs.
Historically, battery capacity has given us a great estimate as to what battery life will look like on iOS products. More-so than any other spec. Battery life is also the more tangible spec for most consumers because they can look at their watch and see how fast their phone died.
A lot of people charge their phones at night while they're asleep. That's not too big of a deal.
If you don't want to charge every night... you'd need a phone that lasts two full days. Meaning you only need to charge it every other night.
You'd have to go to bed with at least 60% battery left in order to make it through the next day. Otherwise... you'll be charging mid-day.
But wait... what's wrong with charging every night? Don't you want to wake up with 100% battery?
Actually no, your schedule has nothing to do with this problem. Some people will use their devices more intensely than others, that is NOT Apples fault and as such has nothing to do with the conversation.
It makes about as much sense as the guy that buys a 1 ton truck when he would be better off hauling 3 tons at a time, complaining about his one tine truck not having the right capacity.
Anandtech has never been a credible source so right there you go off the tracks.
You dismiss the fact that reasonable intelligent use of a device can impact its battery life. This is very important in any discussion about battery life. Simple things like the difference between a person that keeps the screen powered up during a phone call can result in drastically different run times than one that doesn't.
Right, but it would be incorrect under this assumption to assume that overall device power consumption would increase by the same increase in screen size. You still have to multiply that increase in size by whatever percentage of power consumption the screen represents.
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I noticed also a guy who posted a comment about leaving the iPhone for an android device also had a -1 score. Do some admins still have down vote capability?