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Apple Has More Bad News For iPhone 12 Owners[^]
Smaller battery and it uses more power? Odd choice really ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A minor defence here is that Apple is optimising 5G access so that it hits the energy consuming 5G when needed, and falls back to 4G at other times. Unless you're sitting on 5G for hours, it shouldn't consume more. Further, the new chips are more energy efficient which offsets this a little.
Even so, battery life is down an hour on some models. Video playback is down 1hr to 17hrs for the 12 Pro, but apart from that battery life seems about the same at a practical level.
Time will tell, though.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Video playback is down 1hr
Now I don't do anything on my (no Apple) flip phone but make occasional phone calls. I even have a wrist watch so it's not my on-the-road clock.
That being said, battery life decays with time until it reaches a critical lever for the consumer where they need to buy a new one because it's too inconvenient. That will happen sooner now - and a potential 5% or so sooner (for a company that demands you only patronize them) will be quite a bit of money.
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That, too, gets mitigated by smart charging (they charge only to 80% then give it the full top up at the point they learn you'll most likely need it)
Again, not perfect but in practice it may actually be hard to discern. Is the video playback decrease due to a smaller battery or the higher resolution of the screen?
Besides, how dare you suggest upgrading our phones every year to have the latest and greatest is a Bad Thing! They recycle...stuff. And use solar panels. And Stuff... Surely that will keep me out of The Bad Place?
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Surely that will keep me out of The Bad Place?
There are easier ways to avoid going to Detroit ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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...and Tim Cook goes, "peeeeerfect, what's the problem?"
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Chris Maunder wrote: Apple is optimising 5G access so that it hits the energy consuming 5G when needed, and falls back to 4G at other times
Isn't that how it's been working since always 3G.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Hey - I just read the marketing slides. You're not suggesting they are presenting favourable statements out of context and recasting attempts to catch up or repurpose technologies into a message of innovation and forward thinking?
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Chris Maunder
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Nah, then they would have forgotten to mention the battery top off tech Sony Experia has had since forever long as well. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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All civilisations ultimately destroy themselves from within.
Apple is no different.
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You imply Apple is a civilization?  I can refer to Apple by many names, but not a "civilization"!
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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Optional: s/civilisation/ecosystem/
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OriginalGriff wrote: Odd choice really ...
The really sad thing is that most progress in digital electronics in the last 50 years has been all about exactly these three things: Ever higher integration and higher clock frequencies while lowering the power requirements at the same time. When you go overboard on any two of them, you will also go overboard on the third. Yet another example how those who don't understand the history of what they are working with are doomed to repeat it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Why was my immediate thought "this has GOT to be one of Bender's ancestors"?
...and in reality...it probably is.
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Comes with a keyboard holder.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Perfect for early adopting hipsters!
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Are graveyards overcrowded because people are dying to get in?
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When an NSA operative is exhumed, is he decrypted?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That joke is OLD, and intern, is going to urn you some grave consequences. Marker my words, it'll be difficult to worm you way out of them.
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That's why there is always a fence around cemetaries.
But do you know why we bury people in graveyards?
(Because they died...) 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Really? I always thought the fence was to keep the residents in.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Where can you find a town's graveyard?
The dead centre.
 
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[[nodiscard]] void doSomethingWonderful()
{
std::cout << "something something\n";
}
It's going to be a long day.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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Or a cup of Java maybe 
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