It CAN work. Rig a baseball cap or sombrero with mini solar panels, a wire that connects to your iphone
and go for an hour jog in the sun. Voila, phone charged. The phone's form factor stays thin, and so does yours.
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Smartphone Battery Life May Be on the Decline Because Lithium Ion Batteries Can't Keep Up With New Technology
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It CAN work. Rig a baseball cap or sombrero with mini solar panels, a wire that connects to your iphone
and go for an hour jog in the sun. Voila, phone charged. The phone's form factor stays thin, and so does yours.
If you’ve been an Apple customer for many years you’ll have known that anyway
I’m going to counter with : They’d have to keep raising the battery size every year if they want to add more tech and eventually you’d have doubled the thickness and made the thing at least 50% heavier.
Eventually, you either have to have a less powerful computer in your pocket or less battery life.
The iPhone SE had the best battery life before too vs the 6 and 7 etc. Less pixels less power.
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10 or 12 hours of battery seems like a lot already. When you plug in at night to recharge, don’t you still have 60-70% battery left?
And the “obsessed with thinness” meme was played out years ago. The iPhone has gotten thicker every year since the iPhone 6.
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No. I don't think so. That is a very very backward thinking. Glad you guys are not the ones working with the tech giants.
I actually prefer a new battery technology, since lithium really can't put up with new technologies, even if you double today's iPhone batteries, the result would not be double the time but less than that. Plus, they degrade over time, which more brings back the topic.Or just put a bigger, I mean BIGGER battery!
Since they don't give a damn about those of us who like smaller phones anyway!
Since they don't give a damn about those of us who like smaller phones anyway!
This is not true. Apple was the one of the only smart phone manufacturers offering a 4 inch smart phone for almost three years with the SE, when all other smart phone manufactures were offering 6 inch devices and above. The fact that Apple even offered an SE in the first place said milestones that they were listening to the consumer, especially if you watch the 2016 Keynote, Greg Joswiak stated that one of the reasons they brought SE form factor back was because it was requested from the consumer.
I Think it’s more reasonable to be thankful that they even offered the SE when they did from the time it was here. It’s not to say that Apple won’t bring back a smaller iPhone again in the future either.
Solar panels on devices don’t need to be in direct sunlight to charge. You can leave it on your desk and the natural light coming in or lights in the room will charge it.
This is how my old Logitech solar keyboard worked and it was always fully charged.
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They could make the phone thicker and use the same battery technology they use in the MacBooks. Where they have layers of battery built on top of each other and shaped so they fit into the smaller spaces.
Texture the back, rubberise the corners, use the volume saved?
Now how those the two things you mentioned save volume?
Really doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
It's almost like adding higher resolution screens and more RAM while keeping battery capacity roughly the same eats up more juice.
In other news, I modified my car and it's now 50% faster than it used to be. I didn't increase the size of the fuel tank, but it seems to run out a lot quicker now. Any ideas?
In other news, I modified my car and it's now 50% faster than it used to be. I didn't increase the size of the fuel tank, but it seems to run out a lot quicker now. Any ideas?
I have a bigger bulge in my pocket now with the iPhone XS Max than I did with my phones in the early 00’s. Phones were tiny in that period. I had the Nokia 8850, 8210, 8310. Samsung wise I was using the D600 and D900i. There was also the Motorola Razr.
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It wouldn’t be necessary to leave your phone outside.
My old Logitech solar keyboard charged from just the natural light coming into the room and the lights in the room itself. It was never in direct light and it never left the desk and it was always fully charged.
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Solar panels on devices don’t need to be in direct sunlight. They work from natural light coming into the room and light sources in the room itself i.e. a lamp or the main room lighting.
I’ve replied to a few posts in here that my Logitech keyboard was solar powered and it never left the desk, was never in direct sunlight yet it was always fully charged.
I think different because a thinner lighter phone is less visible when carrying it in a business suit.
And if you like to use a protective case around your phone, it can’t be thin enough.
Anyway, the XR is a very heavy and thick phone. I hope Apple will improve this over the next two generations.
Smartphone Battery Life May Be on the Decline Because Lithium Ion Batteries Can't Keep Up With New Technology
Like 7nm CPUs with quad high efficiency cores?
Silly me, I thought the XR had the best battery life of all iPhones ever.
Like 7nm CPUs with quad high efficiency cores?
Silly me, I thought the XR had the best battery life of all iPhones ever.
I may be old, but I don't get all the complaints about the battery...
As some one who have seen the original GameBoy in monochrome screen that required frequent replacement of the 4 AA batteries... I am absolutely impressed that this small tv screen device that plays video in HD and more powerful than my 2000 desktop... can last almost a day on a single charge!
As some one who have seen the original GameBoy in monochrome screen that required frequent replacement of the 4 AA batteries... I am absolutely impressed that this small tv screen device that plays video in HD and more powerful than my 2000 desktop... can last almost a day on a single charge!
But aside from the rare case of a direct flight to the other side of the world, what is the use case where you would need 12 hours of consecutive use of a phone? And how many folks are flying to the other side of the world and not carrying at least two devices in their carryon bag?
Apple could make a lower power version of their A12 chip, couple it with a low resolution small OLED display, put that in a fatter phone and get to that type of battery life now. These are solvable technological challenges. But it would be worse device for most of their customers the vast majority of the time. And for the frequent international traveler, the answer is carry an iPad and an iPhone with you. I assume that is what the vast majority of Apple customers who are regularly buying $1,000 plane tickets are doing.
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Folks who are seeing the XR in person aren’t reporting any degradation in quality. But I’d miss 3D Touch. I guess next time I’m in an Apple store I will be able to compare the XR and the 8 side by side. I’m using an XS so won’t be in the market to buy one. But you may be right because of the off-axis color shift.
I don't use mine for long on any given day so it doesn't concern me, however, the longevity of a battery lifespan is what I am more concerned with.
The charge is a lot less from artificial light versus direct natural light and your Logitech keyboard used vastly less electricity than a current iPhone. The solar panels on the back (assuming no case) would be providing only minimal additional battery life.
Anyway, once Apple has sold a hundred million iPhones with wireless charge features and the Android manufactures have sold about the same, the wireless charge pads will be ubiquitous and you will be topping up throughout the day. Give it a year or two.
As salty as you are Samsung is definitely developing graphene batteries while there's hardly anything anybody can say about Apple and battery tech related.
lower resolution, less bright and lower-quality color
I’ll stick with a little less battery life thank you
I’ll stick with a little less battery life thank you
