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If 1mm worth of battery capacity is important, why do Apple and others keep making phones progressively thinner?
by eigenvector 7y ago
If 1mm worth of battery capacity is important, why do Apple and others keep making phones progressively thinner?
- alkonaut 7y agoThey make the phones thinner presumably because people want thinner phones. They want to be as thin as the competition. And as fast. And have as long battery time. And they are all related obviously.
- bitwize 7y agoThey kind of are, but the relationship is the wrong way around. Thinness is inversely correlated with battery life, a thicker phone has room for a bigger battery. Thinness also constrains your heat dissipation options, making it more difficult to drive the CPU/GPU at high clock speeds. My phone lives, alone, in my left front pocket. I'd much rather have the benefits of a thicc phone than maximize thinness.
- macintux 7y agoYour question is flawed. The thinnest iPhone? The 6. They’ve been getting progressively thicker since then. https://www.lifewire.com/compare-iphone-models-1999430 https://www.lifewire.com/compare-iphone-models-1999430
- raverbashing 7y agoI think Bendgate was with the iPhone 6 no? (it's sad the legacy of Johnny Ive is now connected stuff that's too thin for regular usage - but it's him to blame!)