Why can’t Apple just make it slightly thicker and get rid of the camera bump and increase the battery capacity?
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Because they don't want to.
Because they routinely put focus testers in a room with a bunch of different weighted rectangles and the data shows people don’t like the heavier thicker rectangles.
Because not enough people want such a thing, as simple as that. It's like the r/android mind virus version of being flabbergasted why modern phones don't include an IR blaster
Because batteries, like everything, contain mass and a phone that thick and stuffed with batteries would be shredded for feeling like a brick.
Im all for the iPhone 16 Pro Thicc
iPhone 16 Ultra
Boush new iPhone battery redesigned to have…2.5% more 👍
„The battery is said to be designed for an early stage iPhone 16 Pro prototype with a 3,355 mAh capacity. The iPhone 15 Pro contains a 3,274 mAh battery, meaning that prototype iPhone 16 Pro models currently feature a battery that is just 2.5% larger.“
Groundbreaking.
“The best battery life in an iPhone - ever. And we think you’re gonna love it”
The metal shell is also said to be part of a better thermal system in the 16, and it's actually the battery and the OLED that are the temperature limiting components in a smartphone rather than the SoC.
The last time we had a massive battery gain was with the iPhone 13 lineup. That’s 2 years ago.
The last one before that was the iPhone 11 and it was 4 years ago.
I was hoping Apple would stick to a pattern, but I guess given the slow pace of innovation in the smartphone category, these updates have to be spaced out.
I'd expect the 16 series will improve on battery life and thermals in general, but honestly anyone holding out hope for something radically different is almost certain to be disappointed for a very long time.
Smartphone batteries are more than sufficient for the vast majority people's uses. The 15 Pro has a battery which is apparently nearly the worst out of the 14/15 series line up...and I'm still hovering around 40-50% after 5 hours of use, depending on exactly what I was doing that day. That's around 8-10 hours of battery life total.
If I'm spending enough time on my phone for this to be a problem, even after 3 years of degradation, I probably have larger issues with my life than phone battery.
Meanwhile, even a battery that triples this battery life is going to still just get charged daily because it's too short to charge on a regular, easily remembered schedule.
There's a reason why Apple has, and will continue to, favor focusing their battery improvements on fueling new features first before allowing them to trickle down to actual battery life. We're at a point where battery life isn't realistically a concern for the average user, and is a more niche feature that most of the stuff they might want to spend that extra battery life on.
It's going to take a small revolution in battery technology for us to see major leaps in how long these devices last.
Well put. If people want to improve their battery life, addressing software issues (keep it up to date, erase and set up as new, etc) and usage habits (connect to WiFi, dim screen, turn off background app refresh, etc) would make a much bigger daily impact.
You know you can do those with a better battery too, right?
It’s like saying, why do you need more than 4gb of ram, just close your programs and don’t open too many tabs.
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Why do you want more than 60hz, you know human eyes can’t even notice it.
Why do you need more than 2gb of ram, you know iPhones does ram management?
Why do you need more than 64gb storage, don’t you use cloud?
Why do you need more battery life, don’t you charge your phone?
we hope you'll like it
Consider my ground broken by 2.5%
Who's claiming it to be groundbreaking?
Not all information needs to be editorialized, and a lot of times it's just information without an agenda attached to it.
Can’t innovate my ass
One feature that would make most previous gen iPhone users to get the new one is a really impressive battery life.
Is that a satire?
Seriously. Camera improvements are really not that enticing anymore, it feels really incremental each year. Whereas, battery life is something everyone would notice easily.
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So at what point did this sub turn into a bunch of clickbait bs about leaked components of a phone that’s not out yet? There aren’t better news items about Apple?
Huh, it’s been like this for awhile because every apple related news article gets posted. but yes i hate it too
You’re new here. Welcome. This is the norm.
Bruh, your account is merely three-months old.
You, uh…you know people can create new accounts frequently and with ease, right?
Your username isn’t your Social Security number.
clickbait bs about leaked components of a phone that’s not out yet
Why is this info clickbait BS? It's literally just information from a person who's accurately leaked stuff in the past. And even if not for you, it's useful for some of us to have an idea of what's coming out next year.
It’s been like this forever. I’ve been saying for years to stop listening to rumors because they’re not true. But people don’t listen, believe the rumors, then get all pissy when apple doesn’t announce what the rumors said we’re going to be true.
Take apples last event with the macs. “WHY DIDNT WE GET THIS!?” “WHY DIDNT THIS HAPPEN!?” “THE LEAKER SAID WE WERE GETTING NEW IPADS!!” Etc etc etc.
What part of this is clickbait?
Gives us a battery that isn’t trash after only 1 short year.
Is it though? My iPhone 13 Pro battery is still at 89%
Take that with a grain of salt
My XR from 2018 is currently sitting at 83%.
The things people subject their phone to can be kind of crazy. Go to the beach and look at all the phones laying on a towel in the beating summer sun for hours at a time, recharged on a $6 fast charger from aliexpress. “Battery is so bad after 1 year! This phone sucks!”
Same here, I had the iPhone 12 for a little over 3 years and the battery was at 89% before I upgraded.
89% 13 pro, bought a year ago
It took my 11 Pro like three and a half years of moderately heavy use to get down to 85% rating. And that was with an amount of screen time I don’t care to admit to, tons of cellular data and streaming, lots of wireless charging and 18W charging otherwise, zero craps given about charging habits…
What are you doing with your iPhone?
Believe or not, it is said to be the best iPhone ever made.
The best camera and the fastest CPU; I caught a peak the keynote from next year.
The screen you ask? It has 5% more nits.
These posts are so dumb
Shit I don’t care about
I thought EU made a law that all future smartphones need to have replaceable batteries
That camera bump is absurd.
For real. Legit one of the reasons why I don’t want to upgrade from my 11PM, it’s just ugly as fuck
Give me a phone that can actually run the stuff you promised for mroe than 30 sec without reaching 1000 degrees. Saddly all these kids use the phone for instagram and tiktok, so apple has no intention to fix this massive problem
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