Would love a 2k display.. but I much prefer 1080p with good battery life
Right. This is significantly more meaningful. If the rumors are true, and the iPhone 7S will be AMOLED, I wouldn't be surprised to see this IFS display as a stopgap.
But you hit the most important point: A 2k display is garbage if it kills your battery.
Whoops. Hit the button too early. Anyway, I have read that there are leaks purporting a 2k/quad had screen for iPhone 7 plus and 1080 p for iPhone 7. That is making me consider upgrading and getting excited about the new phones. Anyone else?
Right. This is significantly more meaningful. If the rumors are true, and the iPhone 7S will be AMOLED, I wouldn't be surprised to see this IFS display as a stopgap.
But you hit the most important point: A 2k display is garbage if it kills your battery.
The battery life on my 6S+ isn't that great. In standby it's amazing, but once you start using the phone, particularly in places where the screen cannot be kept dim, it dissipates rapidly. The standby times can make up for that with moderate use over the course of a day, but the phone gets destroyed by heavy usage, even in spurts.
The iPhone 6S+ battery is excellent. Day and a half of battery life regardless of usage. Between the Samsung bloat and the Android inefficiencies, it's a miracle the Note gets half the battery the iPhone 6S+.
It's not about battery size. It has never been about battery size. It's about the interaction between software and hardware. Samsung still doesn't get it.
And why do you sound so angrily defensive?
Hmm. Now who's angrily defensive or maybe just offensive. Save your Android fanboy rant for Android Central.
This would be a non-factor if Apple would use battery sizes that are comparable to equally sized flagships on the market.
The iPhone 6S+ is as big as a Galaxy Note 3, but it has a battery smaller than a Galaxy S7. The Galaxy Note 7 has about 600mAh over the 6S+ in battery size, but it's a smaller phone... If the Note 7 was the same size as a Note 3, it would probably have a 4000+ mAh battery at this point. The S7 Edge (which the 6S+ is more applicably comparable to) has a 3600 mAh battery. I think the 6S+ has < 3000 mAh?
If Apple used comparable battery sizes, this would be completely non-factor.
I don't understand why they continue to use these tiny batteries. There is less "stuff" in an iPhone yet they are using the smallest batteries in the industry for phones those sizes. The iPhone 6S battery is barely bigger than that of the first Galaxy S phone that launched in 2010...
The battery life on my 6S+ isn't that great. In standby it's amazing, but once you start using the phone, particularly in places where the screen cannot be kept dim, it dissipates rapidly. The standby times can make up for that with moderate use over the course of a day, but the phone gets destroyed by heavy usage, even in spurts.
The battery on my Note 3 wasn't as good in standby, but the in-use battery life was actually better so it averaged out a bit better than my 6 Plus or 6S Plus, and that was with 2013-era hardware.
I'm sure the AMOLED screen helped, but that's neither here nor there. Bigger batteries are needed in these phones.
Ratings mean nothing are consistently overestimate as the conditions of testing are.... Not usually realistic.
The S6 still had a much larger battery.
So those dates are worthless to be frank.
Everyone seems to hype hardware specs, hell, I do when it comes to desktop and notebook computers. This comes from the ever popular idea in the computing industry that if there's a problem well... let's just throw more hardware at it; that will fix it. Right? Yes... and no. Yes, throwing more hardware at a problem will fix the issue in the short run but in long run what needs to be done is find out why some task needs that hardware.No specs don't matter to apple because using less hardware means more profit.
It is interesting that despite the fact that Android devices have all of this massive hardware in it that they still do manage to lag like crap.And the fact that competing platforms can do what they have despite being a lot more open about how things run on the phone is quite impressing on their parts, as well, and speaks to how much they have improved over the years.