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Sketchy Photo of Claimed 'iPhone 6s Plus' Box Surfaces Alongside Rumor of Smaller Battery

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I really wish they'd just make the device slightly thicker and fill that extra space with more battery capacity. I don't want the "same great battery life", I want an extra 2 hours on top of what I get now.

Or an extra 4 hours if you take into account the 2 hour drop I get in battery life on the most recent iOS 9 beta.
 
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I like the box if it's true. However, I find it a little weird that the front facing camera & light/proximity sensor are absent from the image of the phone. Isn't that kind of like falsely advertising the phone has no front camera?
 
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zin said:
I really wish they'd just make the device slightly thicker and fill that extra space with more battery capacity. I don't want the "same great battery life", I want an extra 2 hours on top of what I get now.

Or an extra 4 hours if you take into account the 2 hour drop I get in battery life on the most recent iOS 9 beta.
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I was in this camp until the plus came out. As much as I love it and couldn't give it up it is admittedly a little unwieldy. Making it thicker wouldn't help. I also really like my case and want to keep it another year lol.
 
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I believe it's fake, look at the top of the phone image... only speaker and no camera/sensors? sorry but everytime apple put a real phone image in the boxes they are 100% replica of the real phone...
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good catch. now i don't even believe in golden beta fishes anymore.

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if you take into account the 2 hour drop I get in battery life on the most recent iOS 9 beta.
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don't do that - it's beta ;)
 
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Kevsta26 said:
I like the box if it's true. However, I find it a little weird that the front facing camera & light/proximity sensor are absent from the image of the phone. Isn't that kind of like falsely advertising the phone has no front camera?
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Then"image" of the phone just looks like the current box to me where it's a raised silhouette of the phone itself. Then there's that fish flower thing they slapped on top.

Nope. I'm wrong. Better eye than me loll.
 
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lordofthereef said:
I was in this camp until the plus came out. As much as I love it and couldn't give it up it is admittedly a little unwieldy. Making it thicker wouldn't help. I also really like my case and want to keep it another year lol.
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Are you sure? I thought Apple introduced a new battery technology that stacked the cells to take advantage of volume in addition to area. Or perhaps that was only in the MacBook Air.
 
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zin said:
If they deliver on their website claim for "up to 1 hr" more battery life going to the GM from the latest beta, I will eat my hat.
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why? they're under deadline for Nike Fuelband or some crap - there's absolutely zero reason to cater to Joe Blow the Construction Worker's iPhone and his battery life Emailing Relatives in Boise Idaho. ever spent time with a development team?
 
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Kidder1994 said:
I believe it's fake, look at the top of the phone image... only speaker and no camera/sensors? sorry but everytime apple put a real phone image in the boxes they are 100% replica of the real phone...
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Probably Apple finally find a way to hide the front camera.


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http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...-facetime-camera-flash-inside-earpiece-grille
 
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The grainier the photo, the more 'undercover covert cred' they get.

Pretty sure I could make one of these up on Photoshop and then photograph it with an iPhone 3G and it'd come out relatively similar.
 
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teslo said:
cause every component occupying every square micro-meter has physical dimensions and attributes that can be adjusted in order to produce what Apple believes to be the best phone offered at the moment? everything requires tradeoffs, and that usually means e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e in the 'i personally ABHOR the tradeoffs [X] makes' camp seem to be the most vocal demographic in the known universe?



you mean like every day of your life including this very moment?
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I'd like you to follow up tomorrow and let the rest of us know about the substantial gains that were made from today.
 
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Not that it's my style - but it's a good time for Apple to sell a black and gold version, to match the watch and retina MacBook.
 
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Oblivious.Robot said:
YES! Smaller battery, but better efficiency even though the phone might slightly be bigger!
So I can get same or less battery life than the previous version.
They always get it right what I wanted the most. :)
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Well not necessarily. You could get the same, worse or better battery life depending on what they've actually done.
 
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jdillings said:
Because this is Apple. By putting a smaller battery in it, they already got you wanting to upgrade your new phone to next year's model. Planned obsolescence 101.
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Not necessarily true. I'm still on an iPhone 4 and the battery lasts all day. How many years ago did it come out? Oh yah... 5 years.. June 24, 2010. :)
 
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