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

[Art0fLife]

Something is wrong with your phone if you lose 10% in 30 minutes while doing little. That really is high!

Definitely. My 6 Plus (that I got on launch day and has never had a new battery) still gets me a bare minimum of 48 hours before really needing to charge on normal use. If I really use it hard, I mean, the days I have to obsessively stay on top of something like 2 days ago, it's still at about 40% when I go to bed at night. And playing around with iOS 9 on my iPad Mini 3, I can easily see my 6 Plus getting more than that as my iPad has made leaps and bounds with it in terms of battery life.

I'm holding off on panic over reduced battery capacity in the S models. I'd like to have the same or better, but more efficient hardware and a more efficient iOS could easily make up for that and then some. Smaller capacity doesn't necessarily mean less life and bigger doesn't mean more life in and of itself. I'd rather have the bigger battery AND the efficiency changes, but if Force Touch is as good as it appears to be it's probably worth it to me. If the 6S + (or whatever it'll be called) can at least meet my current 48 hours+ per charge I'm really not assed about the smaller battery.

 

[Gasu E.]

You know Apple is truly obsessed with thinness when they make the box even thinner!

Rumor also has it the new phones will actually be slightly thicker and heavier.

 

[navaira]

Exactly, they're making up for the gross bulkness by making the boxes thinner. Otherwise Jony wouldn't be able to sleep for a year.

 

[MH01]

Has anyone from Apple ever gotten up on stage and given you a worse battery life number? My guess is Phil will quote the same battery life as current iPhones.

Has anyone from the public ever gotten the battery life quoted on stage? I'm confindent there is a lot of wiggle room in that number to cover the change in battery size

 

[unimpressed]

Who needs a longer battery life when the iPhone looks so cool? Form over Function! If you feel that the battery life is too short, you are not using the iPhone right -- according to Apple's Chief Designer Jony Ive. The shorter the battery life the better - so that we can make the iphone paper thin!

 

[dampfnudel]

Probably Apple finally find a way to hide the front camera.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...-facetime-camera-flash-inside-earpiece-grille

That patent also includes a flash so the picture could be legit. Actually, with the addition of the flash for the front camera on the 6s, it makes sense that Apple would implement this cleaner design now.

 

[IBoB1973]

smaller battery is fine since i have 0 battery problems i want a base of 32gigs time to dump the 16

 

[Col4bin]

Has anyone from Apple ever gotten up on stage and given you a worse battery life number? My guess is Phil will quote the same battery life as current iPhones.

True. But if this rumor turns out to be correct, it would be the first time we've seen Apple actually decrease a performance metric (battery mAh output) in a flagship device that to date, has always improved in all around YOY functionality, not gone backwards. Especially at the high-end price range. With that said, I too suspect it to be the same battery performance as the 6/+.

 

[BigMacAttack1]

Colonel Forbin-is that you?!

 

[DamoTheBrave]

And each and every iteration of iPhone so far has brought just that.

The iPhone 5 brought significantly worse battery life than the 4s or 4 in my experiences. They need to bite the bullet and put a bigger battery in.

 

[mr.bee]

True. But if this rumor turns out to be correct, it would be the first time we've seen Apple actually decrease a performance metric (battery mAh output) in a flagship device that to date, has always improved in all around YOY functionality, not gone backwards. Especially at the high-end price range. With that said, I too suspect it to be the same battery performance as the 6/+.

They don't care about metric performance. It's about 'experience'. They want you to recharge it every evening with average use (for average people that is). after that battery is not a priority.
So if they can achieve that with a lower battery, they will.

 

[SarcasticJoe]

The other rumor on the board link shows they have consolidated additional chips into the A9, so that combined with any die-shrink should lower CPU power. I believe most of the power is used by the display anyway.

Actually the screen isn't that big of a power draw. It only really draws any significant amount of power when the device is being used and even then it's usually not drawing as much power as ether the CPU or GPU on their own. What really drains the battery on a modern smartphone is the radios. Specially 3/4G radios take up a big chunk of a modern smartphone's battery not just because they draw a lot of power when in active use, they draw power all the time even when you're not actively using your phone doing things like updating your push email, IP based instant messaging, etc.

You can see this for yourself by turning off the 3/4G functionality on your phone and seeing how much this improves battery life. I've had my smartphones last almost a week on a single charge when doing this while visiting a family summer cottage that doesn't have power (due to an aunt saying they'll only install power there "over her dead body").

 

[ColdShadow]

Smaller battery might mean more room for Force Touch.

Hell with that force touch,so they are willing to sacrifice the most important and already not that great aspect (battery) for the sake of that useless gimmick?

 

[deviant]

Hell with that force touch,so they are willing to sacrifice the most important and already not that great aspect (battery) for the sake of that useless gimmick?

they did so with almost every iPad but it worked out somehow. there's hope

 

[nviz22]

I purposely avoid the base iPhone 6 for the battery life. The 6+ has some bugs from time to time. My apps crash all the time and I am on my 2nd one, but the battery life is decent, but the signal problems couple with my apps crashing to make my battery last only a day. Slimmer isn't better. I hope iOS 9 (full version, not your betas guys) will work well on the 6S+. I can't wait. I am about to get a new android to replace my M9 since the experience isn't the greatest and I get the latest iPhone too!

 

[Dayv]

I'm sure the battery is smaller due to increased case rigidity in response to the utterly bogus "bendgate" uproar. You did this to yourselves, people.

 

[617aircav]

Apple wants you to spend more and increasing the base from 16 to 32 will not achieve that.

 

[navaira]

This from 9to5mac:

 

[Justin33]

WTF Apple... a SMALLER battery? So it'll get the same or worse battery life.. that's inexcusable especially in a device that already has mediocre battery life.

I was hoping to get a 6, upgrading from my 5s but I guess not now if this is true.

 

[FriendlyMackle]

This from 9to5mac:

Good to know, and not surprising. As others say, they want people to at least purchase the mid-tier 64. But, I have seen people out there who buy the 16. I can't imagine how they live with so little storage, cloud or not. I've used 107 of my 128GB 6+ storage.