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I wish the iphone 12 mini was smaller :/ Seems like the best option for us compact loving people though

ActorNightly 6y ago
If you can live with 30 minutes of battery life. Yes Im being hyperbolic, battery life at full load is going to suffer tremendously, especially when you consider the degradation of battery performance over the years.
- justapassenger 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure lots of people will accept their phone to be 5mm thicker to allow more room for a bigger battery.
  - WillYouFinish 6y ago
    Exactly. These thin phones are just too thin for my taste anyway.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  You are aware that every iPhone form factor before the 6 existed, right?
  - Eric_WVGG 6y ago
    Yes, and both the battery lives of phones and the demands of the OS exploded after the 6. I can't wait to get my hands on a Mini, but there's no doubt in my mind that the battery life will be a step backward. That's the trade-off.
- z6 6y ago
  The original SE actually had fantastic battery life. If I recall correctly, better than the larger flagship 6s at the time.
  - dont__panic 6y ago
    Yeah folks are definitely forgetting that battery life != phone screen size. It's much more complicated than that. I had a 6S and I couldn't stand the battery life (or size). "Down"graded to a 2016 SE and the battery life was leaps and bounds better -- plus, it didn't shut itself off outside on cold days. Based on Apple's spec page, it does look like the Mini has worse battery life than the 12. The real question is: - how is standby battery life? and - what kind of impact does 5G have? The number's on Apple's site are a great deal better than the 2020 SE's battery life, so I think we might have a good balance here. Hopefully.
- notSupplied 6y ago
  As Apple makes their chips faster and more efficient and as phone batteries get bigger and bigger, app developers rise to meet the challenge by producing increasingly sloppy software that can afford to be incredibly wasteful because raw speed of the hardware is masking its cracks. Try to run Instagram today on an iPhone 6, you won't be able to even scroll a feed of static images smoothly without hitching. Imagine what it is doing to the battery.

If you can live with 30 minutes of battery life. Yes Im being hyperbolic, battery life at full load is going to suffer tremendously, especially when you consider the degradation of battery performance over the years.

justapassenger 6y ago
I'm pretty sure lots of people will accept their phone to be 5mm thicker to allow more room for a bigger battery.
- WillYouFinish 6y ago
  Exactly. These thin phones are just too thin for my taste anyway.
saagarjha 6y ago
You are aware that every iPhone form factor before the 6 existed, right?
- Eric_WVGG 6y ago
  Yes, and both the battery lives of phones and the demands of the OS exploded after the 6. I can't wait to get my hands on a Mini, but there's no doubt in my mind that the battery life will be a step backward. That's the trade-off.
z6 6y ago
The original SE actually had fantastic battery life. If I recall correctly, better than the larger flagship 6s at the time.
- dont__panic 6y ago
  Yeah folks are definitely forgetting that battery life != phone screen size. It's much more complicated than that. I had a 6S and I couldn't stand the battery life (or size). "Down"graded to a 2016 SE and the battery life was leaps and bounds better -- plus, it didn't shut itself off outside on cold days. Based on Apple's spec page, it does look like the Mini has worse battery life than the 12. The real question is: - how is standby battery life? and - what kind of impact does 5G have? The number's on Apple's site are a great deal better than the 2020 SE's battery life, so I think we might have a good balance here. Hopefully.
notSupplied 6y ago
As Apple makes their chips faster and more efficient and as phone batteries get bigger and bigger, app developers rise to meet the challenge by producing increasingly sloppy software that can afford to be incredibly wasteful because raw speed of the hardware is masking its cracks. Try to run Instagram today on an iPhone 6, you won't be able to even scroll a feed of static images smoothly without hitching. Imagine what it is doing to the battery.