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Report Claims 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Will Feature 2,100 mAh Battery
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Apple will keep lower spec from competitor for their future improvement on iPhone 6s. Longer battery life, just like 5S and 4S
Huh? I don't even remember Apple talking about battery life at the 5S event.
Yeah I'm sure the 6S or whatever it's called will have improved battery life over the 6. It's called progress, not artificially limiting a product so you can make the next generation look better.
Don't forget one thing: It's not a phone, it's a small computer... if Apple (or any other manufacturer) would build a simple dumbphone (like in the old days) it probably would last weeks with current battery tech.
I'm lucky if I can make it through the day with my phone.
Background services on, BT on, wifi on, I can NOT load any video or games because the battery will just plummet. I do close apps when they're not running and I leave it on the lowest brightness setting. A week would be great for a modern phone, but I'll happily take "easily handles 1 day of intensive use". Budgeting power seems so old fashioned!
Funny how those who are closing apps always complain about battery life. You could think, that they close apps because of the short battery life, but it could be the other way around as well.
My iPhone hardly lasted a whole day of real use either.
This is the norm. That's why Samsung makes fun of this in commercials.
As far as "setting the phone optimally", that's nonsense it is just supposed to work.
My G2 lasts all day and then some with HEAVY all day use. Easily twice as much as my iPhone. I don't set up the phone this way. I don't do anything. I don't close any apps, I don't do anything. The only thing I turn off is location. That's it.
I turned everything off on my iPhone and still it died.
What's the point of having a smart phone if you have to turn off all the features?
The iPad is such a champ regarding battery life. Probably due to the size of the battery, but if apple could acheive similar on the iPhone , IMO that would be revolutionary.
Has apple said the iPhone 6 will be thinner than 5/5s? I've honestly never heard anyone complain about thickness IRL.
Has apple said the iPhone 6 will be thinner than 5/5s? I've honestly never heard anyone complain about thickness IRL.
That's because, in my experience with the Mini, is because WiFi disconnects when you turn off the screen. What kills the battery are the services that are connected to the internet.
If you turn off data on your iPhone it'll last forever. Of course, that just makes it a dumb phone.
Awwww, did I hit a nerve?
Don't tell me, Steve Jobs wouldn't approve
Hm, not really. But sometimes you just need to comment on things that are irritating.
This is good news so long as the new phone doesn't have a power draw directly proportional to the increase in battery capacity, but I'd be surprised if that were the case.
I've never found the iPhone 5's battery to be particularly bad, the only times it failed to get me through the day was related to running early betas of iOS7 last summer, and a rapidly aging battery. Now with a new battery and the iOS8 beta, I can happily get through 1.5-2 days without it dying on me.
My only real concern about an increased battery capacity is the charging time. After using a Nexus 5 for a few months at the beginning of the year, one of the things I noticed was how much longer it took to charge compared to my iPhone (which I have since switched back to). Even if you can't get through the day on a single charge, at least you can plug it in and charge it from dead to 50% in about half an hour.
I've never found the iPhone 5's battery to be particularly bad, the only times it failed to get me through the day was related to running early betas of iOS7 last summer, and a rapidly aging battery. Now with a new battery and the iOS8 beta, I can happily get through 1.5-2 days without it dying on me.
My only real concern about an increased battery capacity is the charging time. After using a Nexus 5 for a few months at the beginning of the year, one of the things I noticed was how much longer it took to charge compared to my iPhone (which I have since switched back to). Even if you can't get through the day on a single charge, at least you can plug it in and charge it from dead to 50% in about half an hour.
For watching videos or browsing the internet the iPhone battery is competitive, only because of the screen size. If you compare a basic task of talk time, iPhone battery life sucks! this is a major issue for a lot of people that use the iPhone for business and constantly are on the conference calls, etc. Add to that some emails and few other activities and the iPhone will die before noon if you do not keep it charged!
take a look at the and you will see what I am talking about
http://blog.gsmarena.com/nokia-lumia-icon-battery-test/
btw, make sure to click EXPAND next to the comparison table for full results on the url above
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Light I get, but I've never understood this obsession Apple has with "thinner". What exactly does that extra 1mm do for anyone? Even at the "thickness" of the 3GS, the phone was still thin. What, you can't fit it in your pocket unless it's paper thin?
All this obsession does is cost the consumer battery capacity for the sake of being able to say "it's the thinnest iPhone ever!" Big deal. Make that sucker 1mm thicker, slap a 3000 mAh battery in it and call it a day.
The biggest issue most smartphone users have is battery life...period. For the life of me, while Apple gets so many other things right, I can't understand why they're completely obsessed with making the iPhone thinner. Of course, at some point they run up against the laws of physics and the phone can't get any thinner. Even Apple can't engineer their way out of that one.
Android phones do not last for two days of heavy usage. At the school, the only people carrying around their chargers with them all day long are Android users.
As with every other iPhone iteration, the "all-new" battery will just hold it's own - average users will JUST make the day on a charge. In order to go longer would require the user the toggle OFF all the great "new" features coming to iOS 8 - so much for the user experience if all you're doing is toggling off to save battery power.
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Put me down as one who isn't into thin over performance.
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Put me down as one who isn't into thin over performance.
Why? Don't just say that. Give us definitive reasons why a phone any thinner than the current 5S is "very important" to YOU. What can't you do with the current iPhone that you'll be able to do with a thinner iPhone 6?
I'm not being smart...I sincerely want to know. This is one of those comments that I just don't understand.
We're going to have to see evidence of that - biased anecdotal info ain't worth spit.