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Re:The iPhone 5 by majormajor on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:11AM (#4542022)
I wish they'd go further, though: how much battery life could Apple get out of an iPhone if they kept their great minimization and efficiency-maximization of the electronics going, but pulled back from the thinner-and-lighter-every-time mantra and devoted all the saved space to a bigger battery?

An iPhone that's smaller than my still-pocketable non-Apple phone isn't that appealing to me (yay for having above-average-sized hands!). An iPhone that could go a week easily on a single charge would make me sit up and take notice, though.

Re:The iPhone 5 by chrisbolt on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @01:26AM (#4542258)
If you care more about battery life, why not just add something like http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=112&c... ?
Re:The iPhone 5 by janardanyri on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:52AM (#4542151)
The iPhone's battery takes up a gargantuan amount of its internal space already. Multiplying the battery size by 7 would end up doubling or tripling the device size easily. See the iFixit teardown of the 4: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1

It's truly just an incredibly hard problem to solve.