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I have one, love it, and real high on the list for why is that at the end of a busy day I regularly have 40% battery left in the bank. Put side-by-side with a
by hprotagonist 8y ago
I have one, love it, and real high on the list for why is that at the end of a busy day I regularly have 40% battery left in the bank.
Put side-by-side with a XS, i'm hard pressed to find a visual difference between screens, quality-wise.
- abc_lisper 8y agoMe too. I think media has generally been unfair about XR not selling well. It is easily the best iPhone I have used. I actually enjoy reading on it; just finished a 1000 page fiction novel on it. And yeah, hacker news loads fasssst. Faster than my MacPro :)
- jefft255 8y agoI second this. Switching from a Galaxy S7, the battery life for my Xr has been amazing!
- Intermernet 8y agoOdd, I just finished a night shift in which I used my Galaxy S9 quite a lot, after a day of using it quite a lot (including wifi hotspot, camera, video, maps & navigation) and it's showing 65% battery. This is after 23 hours of constant usage. I think this may be due to both better and larger batteries in all flagship phones, as well as better power management in both Android and iOS. Or maybe I just got lucky?
- thealfreds 8y agoI have an S8 and generally have to charge it half way through the day. Going on a 1 1/2 walk while just listening to spotify will drain the battery between 18-24%. Been trying to decide between the Pixel, XR, or S9 since its been so bad recently. If the S9 really has that amount of improvement I wouldn't mind doing the straight upgrade since video/picture quality isn't a big deal for me.
- voltagex_ 8y agoSpotify seems to be a real battery hog, but are you in a low-signal area? (especially on LTE). I've noticed a big difference in battery life on the S8+ (and to some extent, the Note 9) based on whether I'm in a "1 bar" area or "4 bar" area.
- thealfreds 8y agoThat might be it. I'll give it a check later today but I am walking out to the trail. I'd have hoped since I have the playlists downloaded that it wouldn't matter.
- voltagex_ 8y agoSorry - the two issues are separate. * Spotify is inefficient (wonder how much is DRM?) * Low signal causes your phone to increase transmit power.
- Intermernet 8y agoSounds like I got lucky. I've noticed this with Li-Ion batteries; some are awesome and provide days of charge, and some are terrible and require half-daily top-ups. I'm not sure if the manufacturers do testing to determine which ones are better.
- stingraycharles 8y agoHonest question, because I’m a bit confused: the 40% is good or bad? It seems comparable to my old iPhone SE, is battery life so much worse on the newer generations?
- 1123581321 8y agoSomeone getting down to 40% on the XR would have a dead battery on the SE. Your usage is lighter.
- dijit 8y agoHow are you qualifying that? Power draw in usage vs battery capacity? I've never really looked at it like that, but I guess we should take the least generous values from both: Pure Capacity: iPhone XR: 2,942 mAh iPhone SE: 1,624 mAh Draw: iPhone XR: "Up to 15 hours", so 196,134 mAh of draw if we take the best case for the iPhone XR. iPhone SE: 12-13 Hrs on Internet (so, LTE, according to apple) that's roughly 129,92 mAh ; while the capacities are wildly different I don't see the SE being so far behind. If you can get real power draw numbers you can make your own conclusion. I suspect Apple expects a certain about of idle time (which has been optimised for on the later generations).
- liamkf 8y agoYeah, using the battery life test from Anandtech as a guide, an SE gets about 70% of the battery life of an XR: 12.97 hours vs. 9.27 hours. So I would guess around 28% of its battery when an XR is at 40%.
- 1123581321 8y agoUsing those numbers, when an SE hit 0% after 9.27 hours of usage, the XR would be at 28.5% (12.97-9.27)/12.97. That seems reasonable and makes my original claim that an XR would be at 40% was a hit high, but in the same ballpark. There’s certainly no doubt that the SE’s battery size and power management doesn’t compare to the current phones’.
- setquk 8y agoAnother XR fan here. I went from 6s to XR. It’s much faster, the camera is amazing and the battery life is exceptional. It lasts 1.5 days of heavy use no problems at all. The only compliant is sometimes I pull it out of my pocket and try and use it upside down. And the torch comes on in my pocket about once a week.
- cronix 8y agoAll new phones replacing a several year old model exhibit the same characteristics you say here. Of course going from 6s->XR is faster (several generations of newer cpu), has a better camera, and that brand new battery lasts a long time. Your old phone was about 3.5 years old. You could have gotten a new 6s and it probably would have had most of the characteristics you say, because it wouldn't be throttled due to an old battery. Or just replace the battery. It would hold a charge a lot longer. The only thing that wouldn't really be different is the camera.
- asadlionpk 8y agoI just had battery replaced on my 6s. It still sucks.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoIt's the lack of 3D Touch that kills me :( I need it.
- akamaka 8y agoWhich 3D Touch features do you use the most, and consider irreplaceable?
- spinningarrow 8y agoFor me it’s the app drawer, moving the typing cursor and previews (notifications, messages etc).
- kiwijamo 8y agoI’m sure moving the cursor is not a 3D Touch feature?
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoWell... It is the natural and best way to do so. You press hard and the cursor moves freely like a mouse pointer, put it where it should be and release. Along with haptic feedback, it's a must have once you start using it. Really beats the magnifying glass method.
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- Matthias247 8y agoAn interesting fact is that it's actually a Post 3D touch feature. It should have been possible to do it all the years. But the feature only had been introduced with iOS 12, after the first phone without 3d touch (iPhone Xr) after some years had been released. I would have been useful for devices like the iPhone SE too.
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- chrisper 8y agoHow so? An OLED will always have better blacks than an LCD screen, which leads to better contrast, which leads to better picture quality (perceived at least).
- tobr 8y agoI did not expect OLED to be this much better than LCD before I got the X. It makes an absolutely enormous difference when you use the phone in a dark environment, say to check the time if you wake up at night.
- Matthias247 8y agoBlack levels are one attribute of a screen. However the Xr also has a few upsides: A higher brightness, and no display flickering due to PWM. I personally thought the Xr also exposed less yellow screen tint than the Xs and scrolled with less blur and distortion, but that might have been subjective. The other thing that is often advertised as pro for the Xs is a higher resolution. However that is not entirely true, since the Oled displays use a pentile matrix, where there is not a full sub-pixel available for each pixel. Which means in other words the difference in actual resolution is not as high as the pure numbers might want one make to believe. I think both displays are excellent, and won't disappoint.