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Prototype 2,915 mAh Battery for 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Once Again Shown in Photos
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It is certainly not a perfect survey, but I think the stark nature of the results, which happens to coincide perfectly when I ask anyone who is holding an iPhone that I see throughout the day (1 for 1 this morning) that the general public wants more battery life far more than they want a dinner phone.
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No. You should be using the nominal potential of 3.82v, not the upper city of potential.
What's important is battery life and there are a lot of factors that determine that... Battery size is just one piece of that large puzzle and by itself is pretty meaningless.
Blame the 3G and LTE antennas and not the battery. The iPod touch has iPad-like battery life.
Doesn't need to be funny. He acted like he knew so much more than everyone else for months and now that leaks are coming out, he has to suck it up and take it. People are going to give him crap for it. Rightfully so.
Jesus fanboys are annoying - a bigger battery, all other things being equal will last longer. It's very simple science.
It's only people who sit on sites like this all day and wear Apple logo pyjamas who excuse everything Apple do as being better. If Samsung designed the proposed iPhone 6 they would be mocked for the thick bands and protruding camera, small battery, low RAM etc etc.
Everyone I know with a mobile phone would like better battery life, no-one I know has said they want a thinner phone. It doesn't matter what optimisation the A8 chip has - when you sit staring at the screen the battery will be eaten, the 5.5 will no doubt be fine but the small battery in the 4.7 will be struggling.
AMEN to this too, but you forgot that the I watch will act as battery extension for the 4.7 model
Anyway there still a part inside me hardly believing that the models leaked are for the new ipod touch(new resolution) and we gonna get a better battery like 2200Mah for the iphone version... As this said... This is my last hope for it... Because I cannot believe that this slim mode can continue forever... Better focus on crutial point where pretty much all kind of consumers (professionals, students, parents) want a better autonomy...
(New) Features are nice but if you need to disable all of them to last one day it is just nonsense... So pleases Apple, take the right decision...
The worst thing would be to wait next year for the iPhone 6B (battery)
This is going to do HUGE things for battery life.
You're probably thinking "Oh but the additional capacity is going to be wasted on running the bigger display."
Yeah, some of it will. But when the phone is in your pocket on standby and the display is off, the bigger battery will mean a MUCH longer standby time, even if apps that use battery are running in the background. Every minute you're not directly using your phone will use that much smaller a percentage of the battery.
Look how ridiculously long cellular iPads last when on standby. You'll be seeing something like this from the phones soon.
That's a very good point!
Doesn't matter how big the phone / screen is. It can ONLY make standby time whilst not in active use longer. Hmmm, the 5.5" becomes more appealing by the minute...
Yeah, the 5.5 will have much better battery, but apple being apple might say they are both the same on the spec sheet.
People in the ground with worms crawling through their brains are not capable of thought.
If the 5.5" has longer battery life than the 4.7" it will be the serious killer feature that might even make me reconsider my current preference for the 4.7".
This is going to do HUGE things for battery life.
You're probably thinking "Oh but the additional capacity is going to be wasted on running the bigger display."
Yeah, some of it will. But when the phone is in your pocket on standby and the display is off, the bigger battery will mean a MUCH longer standby time, even if apps that use battery are running in the background. Every minute you're not directly using your phone will use that much smaller a percentage of the battery.
Look how ridiculously long cellular iPads last when on standby. You'll be seeing something like this from the phones soon.
This is very true. If anyone wants to see evidence of this, just look at the battery life comparisons between the iPhone 5/5S and it's larger Android competitors. Typically you'll see tasks that require the screen to be on and processing graphics (games for example) to be very close between the devices with perhaps edge to the iPhone depending on what device is being compared to it. Things like internet browsing will usually have a slight edge to the larger phone (screen on, but not much video processing) and then things like talk time and hotspot functionality favor the larger phone by a pretty large margin.
The 5.5" does not exist, nor will it ever... EVER...
... I mean the 5.5" Nokia 3310, of course
(actually, that would be quite a nice phone to own
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We shall know next Tuesday.
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Nothing. He just would not give the green light for pointless/surplus SKUs.
If true - the 5.5 is slowly becoming the better choice (if size doesn't matter to you)
400+ DPI (based on Gruber)
12-17 hrs battery (rough estimate based on my Note 2)
All Models with Saphire
Yeah, which is a shame. We want the 90's back to go around carrying bricks....
Was the 4S released in the 90s?!?