Physics. Current battery tech means you need a decent size to be useful. A slim battery that gives you next to nothing extra battery is not useful.
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Photos of Apple's New MagSafe Battery Pack Provide First Look at Thickness
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Physics. Current battery tech means you need a decent size to be useful. A slim battery that gives you next to nothing extra battery is not useful.
Lol that reminds me of my thoughts when I saw my butt in a pair of badly cut jeans I tried on during a pre-pandemic shopping trip. 😜
I’ll wait for specific dimensions, but so far the thickness is pretty much what I was expecting (I don’t understand what thickness people were expecting for an external battery). It’s way better than other competitors. Regarding design, I agree that it’s not beautiful, but I think that external batteries are just never good to look at. Even the Apple battery case was looking odd.
I might buy one, but I‘ll wait some reviews.
I might buy one, but I‘ll wait some reviews.
It's a huge bump! What a ridiculous item to have to carry in your pocket. I can throw out ideas, but I don't know what will work and not work from a hardware perspective. But, it's also not what I get paid for
One model to fit all iPhone 12s. It already covers the whole back of the Mini almost up to the camera bump.
Hahaha. Who would buy this? All they had to do is provide a better battery in the phone in the first place OR just make another battery case like they have in the past. This is just another thing I have to carry around. It looks like carrying an iPhone and iPod with me where ever I go. This is nuts. It's a $99 pain.
Ouch, what an eyesore. To me, I would have removed the lighting connector HW, the LED and 50% of the thickness. Rely on the UI of the iPhone and geared the battery purely as a top up option for the minimalist AND as a emergency top ups.
Apple's new MagSafe Battery Pack will begin arriving to customers around the world this week, and one lucky person has already snagged one.
Steven Russell from Memphis, Tennessee said he managed to pick up the MagSafe Battery Pack from a local Apple Store over the weekend, and he has since shared photos on Reddit, providing a closer look at its design and thickness.
Russell shared some early impressions of the battery pack, noting that it is designed with hard but smooth plastic and has a very strong magnetic attraction to his iPhone 12 Pro, even with Apple's silicone MagSafe case on the device. He added that while the battery pack is quite thick, its rounded edges make it comfortable to hold.
Priced at $99 in the United States, the MagSafe Battery Pack attaches magnetically to the back of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, or iPhone 12 Pro Max, providing additional hours of battery life. Apple says the battery pack is able to wirelessly charge the iPhone at up to 5W on the go, or at up to 15W when the battery pack is connected to a 20W or higher power adapter with a Lightning to USB-C cable.
When you attach the MagSafe Battery Pack to an iPhone 12 running iOS 14.7 or later, it will automatically begin to charge the iPhone and a charging status will appear on the Lock screen. iOS 14.7 is currently in beta and should be released within the next few days.
The MagSafe Battery Pack can be ordered on Apple's online store in a white color only and currently has a late July delivery estimate.
Update: Russell has also confirmed that the MagSafe Battery Pack can wirelessly charge AirPods, which is to be expected, as the battery pack is functionally equivalent to the MagSafe Charger in this regard.
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I really wanted to apply that term to this too! And the fact that it’s looking just like a 2000s classic iPod.
Worse as it looks like one of those generic Thule boxes as opposed to the custom Audi one I insisted on buying (if we absolutely had to) that makes some effort in terms of design and aerodynamics despite the obvious design limitations.
Ergonomically too on anything other than the 12 mini, it’s going to be uncomfortable as well as ugly AF. They could have made a 12/Pro version that was thinner and ‘spread’ to the edges of the case.
I know many lament (or celebrate) the departure of Jony Ive and yes, granted he signed off on some monstrosities in his last few years, but in the good old days of actual product design at Apple, this would have never got out of the lab never mind into retail stores.
Parasite, barnacle, lump, whatever you want to call it, it’s also barely even functional (less than 1 charge, really?) and yet Apple still have the barefaced cheek to price it at 99 notes. As much as this is a product I really do want, they can shove it up their hole. And I don’t mean their Lightning port.
I’m still on iOS 13, waiting on 14.7 or 14.7.1 before I upgrade. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple releases a 14.8 before iOS 15 launches. I personally noticed the persistent battery life issues on my 6s and it was bad enough already. That’s why I’m making sure my next upgrade I am definitely choosing a Pro Max model.
If it's from Aliexpress it's probably 1000 mAh only.
I never trust Chinese specs, like how many mAH a single li-ion 18650 cell has, some of them have specs like 7000 mAh, physically not possible, or a 10.000 lumen single 18650 cell flashlight, yeah...right.
I can see why you might not like it but it's just a smooth, white, rounded block. There's nothing there to justify calling it "horrendous" and "fugly". That is just over the top exaggeration.
It’s not fugly, it’s insanely useful. Picking up the iPhone with this battery will be super easy. Apple made, it integrates perfectly with features no 3rd party can match. I hope they offer it in black, instant purchase from me if they do. It reminds me of Apple’s battery cases, but this is even more functional.
The best design years are being left behind, Former 2 Mac Pros were designed better, new iMac design...meh, best design Apple display was the all aluminium one, without the black bezels, OS UI design was a thousand times better in the OS X days....and so on and on.
My 6.1" iPhone 12 has 2815mAh.
The AliExpress' battery lasts several hours while using my iPhone, it has more than 3000mAh for sure.
Would have been nice if apple could have made a separate version for larger iPhones that didn’t need to be as thick.