First look: Galaxy S21 and everything else announced at Samsung Unpacked [in pictures]
Browse all the products and highlights from Samsung's January 2021 Unpacked event.
Samsungs new Galaxy Note 9 has raised the bar in terms of what a premium smartphone has to offer, and is putting a serious squeeze on Apple. Forget AR and 'thinner and lighter,' here's what the next iPhone needs to keep up with the best that Android smartphones have to offer.
The Apple battery throttling scandal has uncovered a serious problem - In its pursuit of "thinner and lighter," Apple built the iPhone to such a fine tolerance that the battery could wear out in a couple of years to the point where without active throttling normal use would cause the device to crash.
For a device that costs as much as the iPhone does, that's pretty poor engineering.
And Samsung has raised the bar, putting a massive 4,000mAh "all-day battery" into the Note 9. That, combined with the fact that the Note 9 is supplied with a fast charger means that charging shouldn't be a huge issue any more.
The bottom line is that the iPhone needs a bigger battery, not onlyto give it the room needed to wear without causing the owner grief within a normal lifespan (which I take to be a minimum of three years), but also to move the bar away form the 10-hour life that Apple claims for specific tasks, and allow it to offer true all-day performance.
Caption by: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Join Discussion