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Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max Could Feature Longer Battery Life
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I'm surprised they don't just put a slightly bigger battery, if it's true that the next generation of iPhones will be bigger to begin with.
So make the battery bigger and give us even more battery. That'd do away with the camera bump too.
Just here to remind that removing the camera bump would imply making the phone so thick (and heavy) that it would be a guaranteed failure.
I know you're joking but that has actually been 100% my comparison ever since my first smartphone. My first pocket device was a Palm V that I bought soon after launch and ever since then (1999) I've had a smart device in my pocket at all times that I've used for calendar, contacts, ebooks, games, taking notes etc. I used to travel a lot for my work and when I had the Palm V I could catch a flight on Monday morning with it fully charged, do a 5 day working week of note taking in meetings and other stuff (ebooks, games) in the evenings and pretty consistently I would get the first low battery warning on the plane home on Friday evening typically as I was reading an ebook.
Now the comparison is absolutely absurd of course, the Palm V didn't even have a screen backlight let alone a colour screen or any of the wireless connectivity capabilities that a modern smartphone has but ever since my first smartphone I've always thought how amazing it would be if smartphones with all their extra capabilities could ever one day get to the same sort of battery life that the Palm V had. With something like the last few generations of the Pro Max we are actually getting tantalisingly close. I'd say that with the same sort of usage pattern as I had with my Palm V I can get very close to 3 days between charges on my 15 Pro Max.
With a decent increase in battery capacity (as has been pointed out other manufacturers are able to get > 5,000 mAh batteries in their phones) plus some more increases in component efficiency and I can see the day coming when an iPhone would actually have the same sort of battery life as my old Palm V and given how much more an iPhone is doing that would be pretty amazing in terms of technology progress.
Apple’s strategy seems to be to trade any efficiency gains for new features (e.g. Find My, Always-On Display, AI features) or thinness instead of multi-day battery life. So I don’t see that changing, barring dramatic advances in battery technology.
Otherwise I’m with you, the weeks-long battery life of Palm devices was much more enjoyable.
One can hope. A friend of mine works in the sector and according to her, by far what consumers want most from a new smartpohone in 2024 is better battery life -- by a factor of nearly 2:1 over anything else. If Apple ever introduces a phone with truly insane battery life, there's their next landmark rollout.
Please don’t let it be the same battery life with a smaller battery, that never works in the real world, the pro max should have a 6,000 mah battery by now.
The A17 Pro allows itself to chew through more Watts when on the high power cores for better performance than the previous two chips despite being on a more efficient process that keeps the Watts down on the low power cores. If you push your devices you will get worse battery than the previous two gens being pushed (but much better performance), simply playing music I can see it using almost nothing but the speakers Wattage.
This situation is also likely why so many people have different experiences with 15 Pro battery life. Personally if i'm playing a game in the sun I'll get worse battery life than my old 13 Pro but a better experience as the screen is brighter and the game is smoother. If I just listen to audiobooks while walking around the 15 will last beyond a day.
This is a pretty great video on the chip-
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Give me a camera that can record better spatial video closer to what you get with the AVP than the iPhone 15 is capable of now and Apple will get my money. Anything less and I’ll hold off until the 17 or 18.
yeah, i still can't get over the fact that this will be reserved for the pro max. while the smaller pro would MOST definitely need and benefit from it ...