Exactly the same predicament. I'm really leaning towards a small lighter phone in my pocket for a change.
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Exactly the same predicament. I'm really leaning towards a small lighter phone in my pocket for a change.
And less performance. These phones are already light and slim. They don't need to be any lighter or slimmer.
I think if Apple polled 100 people that 99 of them would prefer a very slight increase in thickness with a larger battery over being thinner with a smaller battery.
With that being said, hopefully we don't see any real world battery loss (when not using 5G).
With that being said, hopefully we don't see any real world battery loss (when not using 5G).
Battery life is a major reason that people upgrade phone's after 2-3 years, so they'll never change design to try to push battery life beyond their "standard" of 10 hours per day or w.e it is.
It is a shame they are going backwards in terms of battery for "thin" again. I thought that would be gone once Ive was out. No reason to have such small batteries (especially when their devices aren't much thinner than android devices with much larger batteries.
The Kuo dude already said Apple tried to save a few bucks with a cheaper battery to offset the expense of 5g. Few believed it when the report was out. I also found it hard to believe a $1t company selling a premium even luxury product will nickel and dime it’s customers. But apparently they do.
It has nothing to do with weight, heat, or efficiency! Come on you can be efficient and have a bigger batt! If anyone think this is anything other than cost saving they’re delusional.
It has nothing to do with weight, heat, or efficiency! Come on you can be efficient and have a bigger batt! If anyone think this is anything other than cost saving they’re delusional.
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Literally everywhere you look, with more efficient technology, battery capacity can be reduced while maintaining/increasing function. Look at anything from space capsules, electric cars to medical devices and really any electric device where form or weight is a factor.
As has been stated multiple times on this thread, battery capacity is just a number and is not always a great metric for battery life. A vehicle with 1000HP that weighs 2000Kg will be much slower than a vehicle with the same horsepower but weighs half the weight. Apple has confirmed the battery expectation numbers and they match the perfectly good iPhone 11 series.
Most people moaning about, well, just about everything these days needs to frame the fact that the world is in a huge mess right now from the environment to peoples health and battery capacity in an iPhone isn't really that important. Grow up!
Most people moaning about, well, just about everything these days needs to frame the fact that the world is in a huge mess right now from the environment to peoples health and battery capacity in an iPhone isn't really that important. Grow up!
Sometimes reducing size also permits a change of technology. For example, from a pair of AAA cells to a single CR2025 (or whatever). That can have a dramatic impact.
Though we also see some devices going from various silver cells to lithium buttons and receiving a large increase in power/life. After all, there is a physical size below which there are few, if any, advantages from reducing further.
Sure, I had Apple replace the battery on my daughter's 3 year old iPhone. The phone did break. They replaced the phone there and then with a brown-box one, no questions asked. No hassle, no cost.
I've been using my 12 pro for almost a day now. 5G enabled, about 30 apps downloaded over mobile data (no backup restore as my recent backup is on 14.2 beta). The battery life is merely bearable. Glad I didn't wait for the 12 mini...
However, the mega safe charger is so disappointing. It is so slow comparing to charging over the cable, only slightly faster than on a properly placed regular 7.5w qi charger. 15w is a very vague description. More like it's 15w power consumption and output is only half of that.
However, the mega safe charger is so disappointing. It is so slow comparing to charging over the cable, only slightly faster than on a properly placed regular 7.5w qi charger. 15w is a very vague description. More like it's 15w power consumption and output is only half of that.