Next Gen Battery Tech?

[MBX]

Anyone see any news about "next gen batteries" that Apple may be working on or looking into?

The biggest feature for iPhone 6 is exactly that. Much more battery life.

Where do we stand, will there be any improvement?

 

[boshii]

Battery life improves with every new iPhone.

I would love to see an iPhone with "all day" battery life.

 

[the-prophet]

I'm impressed with what they've been able to do with the MacBook Air. If they could bring that over to the iPhone, I'd be happy.

 

[korndawg]

Battery life improves with every new iPhone.

I would love to see an iPhone with "all day" battery life.

No, no it doesn't. Not even close. Example 4 -----> 4S.

 

[boshii]

No, no it doesn't. Not even close. Example 4 -----> 4S.

iPhone 4

iPhone 4S

Looks better to me

 

[Interstella5555]

For whatever bizarre reason (I'm certainly not an electrical engineer) battery improvements haven't been made in a while, it's more how you can get the rest of the components+software to work together to utilize less energy for the workload.

 

[PDFierro]

iPhone 4

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iPhone 4S

Image

Looks better to me

Not in actual usage it wasn't. Battery issues on the 4S was a widespread problem.

 

[boshii]

Not in actual usage it wasn't. Battery issues on the 4S was a widespread problem.

People complain of battery issues with every iPhone.

According to Apple's numbers, the 4S had better battery life.

 

[Mrbobb]

Battery life improves with every new iPhone.

Exactly.

When it comes to battery tech, is not Apple, ask Tesla.

Apple hopefully will keep improving processors efficiency.


Last night I watched David Pogue's "Smaller" on PBS [gasp], they are talking about semiconductors made of 1-atom thick graphene, with generates NO HEAT, that means perfectly efficient electronics!

 

[korndawg]

Not in actual usage it wasn't. Battery issues on the 4S was a widespread problem.

Huge problem.