For years, people have asked why smartphone making companies won’t just make phones a little bigger and heavier in order to offer better battery life. And this year, most smartphone makers including the iPhone 11 Pro lineup, it looks like companies are finally taking note.
We likely won’t know for sure how big the batteries in the new iPhones are until someone tears one apart, and, presumably, the numbers still won’t compare to something like Samsung’s Galaxy S10 and Note phones, which top out at 4,500 mAh batteries that are almost guaranteed to be vastly larger than whatever Apple is offering. And that’s to say nothing of the 18,000 mAh monster that Energizer wanted to make. But any improvement here is a welcome one, especially if the battery claims hold up.
Asus’s ROG 2 Gaming phone already boasts 6,000 mAh battery life that can last for long although it comes with some sacrifices of thickness.
For most companies improving the batteries themselves is only part of the story: the companies help improving their batteries by using OLED displays and also adding some power management features within the software designed to make the phones efficient. They also make tweaks in the processors they use to improve battery life but ultimately it does come down to how big the battery is.
Companies like Apple and Samsung have historically pursued thinness with an aggressive mindset over the past decade. Its phones have gotten slimmer at the expense of battery life and protruding camera modules. With the latest phones iPhones, it looks like that trend is finally reversing by prioritizing function over form.
Lets get to our mini poll, smartphone thinness versus battery life which do you prefer?
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