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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by Analemma_ on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:46AM (#43104218)
It's possible the battery chemistry has also changed. In the last 12-18 months, a bunch of Android phones have gotten large battery capacity upgrades, apparently thanks to silicon-carbon anodes being mature enough for mass production. Presumably Apple is now doing the sam thing.
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by benterix on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:58AM (#43104366)
> In the last 12-18 months, a bunch of Android phones have gotten large battery capacity upgrades

Can you give some examples? I'd like to test one out but I'm not buying the most recent product as a rule.

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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by gbil on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:04PM (#43104450)
Oneplus 13 with lithium-silicon battery tech. This is the new tech which allows for higher capacity at the same size as before.
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by Analemma_ on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:04PM (#43104442)
The OnePlus 13 and Oppo Find X8 both got 10% capacity upgrades over their previous iterations but with the same size/weight. The Honor Magic V2 also has a huge battery despite being a very slim foldable (5,000 mAh, compared to 3,000-3,500 on the ones from Samsung and Google).
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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by cptcobalt on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:45PM (#43104982)
Do signs point toward Apple adopting a unique, new cell chemistry for what will be their high-volume budget product for the next few years? It would have probably been a marketing line if so, similar to the C1 modem. A bigger battery doesn't imply new tech.

(Yes, the phone expensive now, but these SE-tier phones typically get discounts pretty quickly after release through carriers/non-apple retail; and then a bigger & formal sale price decrease when the next phone generation comes out.)

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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by DrBenCarson on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:12PM (#43108425)
The overlap of the “cares about battery chemistry” and “purchases the lowest tier device” is probably close to 0

The C1 modem gets a line because Wall Street has seen that expense for a decade now, so this is a “win” for them. Battery chemistry is completely 3rd party, so they’ll claim the battery life improvement

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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by jerlam on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:53PM (#43109368)
The C1 modem is also not a feature that users care about, other than the increased battery life (that Apple does advertise). In fact, there will be concerns that the modem isn't as good as the existing ones in some edge case.

Putting the new modem into the new "budget" phone reduces expectations so that the impact of any issues will be blunted. Only when all the problems have been ironed out, that will be when the mainstream iPhones will get the new modem.

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Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 16e by DrBenCarson on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:02PM (#43109441)
Yes which is why I explained making the modem a highlight is for Wall Street.

They acquired part of Intel and worked on this for many years. Shareholders want to know what the result of all that money and time was.

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