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TSMC's A9 Chip Outperforming Samsung's in Early iPhone 6s Battery Benchmarks
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Damn I got the Samsung one, on the side note I have noticed SLOW charging on my 6S Plus when plugged into my Macbook. Not sure if thats normal. But it takes forever for the % to go up, again I don't think that is related to Samsung vs TSMC issue.
false. it was way exaggerated by media and haters, like usually happen to any apple related issue.
Seriously, is it even possible for the chips to be that different in power consumption? And the Samsung chip is smaller as well, so it should be innately lower in power consumption. At this stage I don't believe this is a real thing.
Am I missing something here? If the Samsung based device is running about 22% shorter can that even be explained by difference in chips?
If the A9 accounted for half the power in the phone, doesn't that mean the Samsung is like 50% less efficient? That sounds way outside of quality control limits... The only thing I can imagine causing that is if the Samsung had a bug in its idle mode, which Apple would have had to have known about.
If the A9 accounted for half the power in the phone, doesn't that mean the Samsung is like 50% less efficient? That sounds way outside of quality control limits... The only thing I can imagine causing that is if the Samsung had a bug in its idle mode, which Apple would have had to have known about.
Very first calls I made with it dropped. I returned it the first day before it was "gated". Not false by any means. You are just as bad as those with "blind faith in Samsung" if you can honestly defend Apple on that that one. Or make claims that any related Apple issue is exaggerated.
I am beyond thrilled with my 6S' battery life. I run it from 7:15am until midnight, with quite a bit of usage at work, and it's still on over 25% without using Low Power Mode. That's with YouTube, Facebook (awful app for efficiency), calls, light gaming, Spotify/AM, Bluetooth and web browsing. I'm confident it could do a full 24 hours, with Low Power Mode.
Contrast this to my 5S, which needed charging at about midday, and I'm super happy. In fairness, that battery was consumed and my girlfriend's 5S puts in a great show on battery life too.
Contrast this to my 5S, which needed charging at about midday, and I'm super happy. In fairness, that battery was consumed and my girlfriend's 5S puts in a great show on battery life too.
I owned it for one year, 13 months, not a single call dropped, and like me millions and millions of happy customers.
Apple sold the iPhone 4 for years.
There is no gate out of forums like this...
iPhone 6s user call to law firm: "Hi, my iPhone battery is worse than others, I want to start a class action suit."
Law Offices of Bendover & Takeit: "your evidence?"
User: "some armchair engineers on the internet said so."
Law Offices of B&T: "LOL"
User: "but I have YouTube videos showing it."
Law Offices of B&O: "LOL"
User: "I tried to return it at the Apple store and they laughed at me. This is negligent infliction of emotional distress on Apple's part!"
Law Offices of B&O: "LOL"
Is how this will go down. This is why there are so many lawyers. (fellow lawyer here). It's because of all the frivolous complaints and BS suits people want to bring. So keep 'em coming!
iPhone 6s user call to law firm: "Hi, my iPhone battery is worse than others, I want to start a class action suit."
Law Offices of Bendover & Takeit: "your evidence?"
User: "some armchair engineers on the internet said so."
Law Offices of B&T: "LOL"
User: "but I have YouTube videos showing it."
Law Offices of B&O: "LOL"
User: "I tried to return it at the Apple store and they laughed at me. This is negligent infliction of emotional distress on Apple's part!"
Law Offices of B&O: "LOL"
Is how this will go down. This is why there are so many lawyers. (fellow lawyer here). It's because of all the frivolous complaints and BS suits people want to bring. So keep 'em coming!
You don't need a lawyer. Every single person on this forum has till at least this Friday to return their phones
Why not put the damm phones in flight mode during testing?
Glad mine isn't Samsung, after all then. Weird as I would have trusted the Samsung brand and, had I had a choice, picked their chip.
We'll you must have been holding it right. Good job. Anyways, off topic so I'll drop it, but you are being totally hypocritical.
I don't know all the details, but I'm baffled by this, I just cannot believe such a difference exists.
I have a TSMC 6SPlus and the battery life is marginally superior to my old 6Plus. I can use for a solid 12-hour day and still have 30% battery. Plus I am a pretty heavy user who plays games and watches news videos on 3 hours of transit per day. So that speaks heaps to this improvement. My my old 6 Plus I would usually get down to around 15% when I get home.
One would think that that would give the Samsung device even better results. One less battery drain after all. But I don't know when the SIM was removed.
We need to do the test on two brand new phones in factory conduction. with a sim from the same carrier and in airplane mode.
Two tests:
1) standby
2) geekbench battery test (under heavy load)
And we need to run on 1000+ devices and then the discussions can start.
Testing two devices only in varying states is not newsworthy.
Two tests:
1) standby
2) geekbench battery test (under heavy load)
And we need to run on 1000+ devices and then the discussions can start.
Testing two devices only in varying states is not newsworthy.
me ? Again, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of customers for about 4 years.
There are still millions of working iPhone 4 in the wild. And people don't keep a phone that continue to drop calls.
Antennagate was BS.