I personally like it, when my devices die in the middle of a sente…
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Who’da thunk, battery life sells battery powered devices.
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BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Looks like you had plenty of time to complete it since you took the time to type out the ellipses.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Looks like you had plenty of time to complete it since you’ve managed to hit the “Send reply” button and the request thus sent to the Lemmy server actually completed, allowing us to now view your intentionally unfinished comment. I think this is
dezmd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s strange so many comments keep experiencing it, almost like it’s something else entirely, but it couldnt possibly be Candleja
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here you are thinking it was the device when it was actually the robot that malfunctioned over the period and then lost battery.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My phone has a 22000mAh battery. I never consider charging it unless I’m going to the woods overnight, and then only to be sure I have a power bank.
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What phone has a 22000 mAh battery?
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areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s 6.8", that’s called a tablet or phablet at that point. Change my mind.
Zoot@reddthat.com 2 months ago
So this thing looks absolutely amazing, but still sports a 19oz size(560g). For reference, my phone is only 7oz (201g). The steam deck, which i regularly hold with two hands, can start to cause pain in the wrists.
I’m sure the kind of person to buy this phone isn’t holding it for numerous hours, but thats still A) a lot of weight to lug around B) I’d imagine it will begin to strain the wrists quickly. Maybe that’s a pro though…
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If that had a screw on antenna, and a smaller Flashlight, I would replace my pixel 8 for that.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Sounds like my old Ulefone! I once dropped it while getting out of my car and it put a 1.5" diameter dent in the door frame.
Foxfire@pawb.social 2 months ago
Damn and here I thought my 13200Ah phone I charge once a week was big. I wish more phones went down the route of massive batteries, it’s so much better than being thin and barely lasting a day of normal use.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Ah but if our batteries last longer people won’t have to buy phones as often, someone think or the shareholders
Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You think thats bad. But I have worked for over 50 hospitals by now and almost half of them have qualcomms. They are about worthless they were suppose to be used to communicate with dispatch/911 more effictively it works great for like a month then it just falls apart.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Qualcomm is a company that makes a lot of different products. This post is about PCs, but Qualcomm doesn’t make PCs, so you might need to be more specific.
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Almost half of over 50 hospitals already have these new devices? I highly doubt that. Are you referring to one of the really bad old windows on arm devices, or like an android tablet or something?
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Windows for ARM devices before this generation aren’t even that old.
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Some of them aren’t super age-old, but their processors are in an entirely different class, not competitive with these new devices or any of their x86 contemporaries. I really wanted to get one but could never justify them given the performance was so abysmal.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Qualcomm whats?
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So let’s keep making phones thinner and thinner while simultaneously growing the camera bump instead of making a flat profile with, say, 2 days of life!
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So on one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, I think lightness is a thing people care about. I recently needed to get some photos backed up off an old phone of mine, and I didn’t realize how heavy my current one is until I picked up my old one. Thinness is irrelevant, but a 50% weight difference is not. Other than that, I don’t think most people get much utility out of more than a day of battery life, so 1.5 days new degrading down to 1 seems reasonable and in line with what most people want.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
It is. Specifically it is something people do not want.
I have had a LG V30, Pixel 4a and 5, all of which are incredibly light. When I hand it to an iPhone user they tell me it “feels cheap”. You can see this sentiment reflected in phone reviews also.
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I agree for first impressions that heavier is perceived as more premium, but after months of actually using a device I can’t fathom that a reasonable person would actually prefer a heavier phone given an equivalent, lighter phone. Even Apple, king of making devices with mass appeal, decided last year that shedding weight was a priority when moving some iPhones from aluminum to titanium.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Ask them about the lack of a headphone jack 😉.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I have a Samsung A71. It permanently lives in its protective case which gives it good bumpers around the easily-breakable edge-to-edge screen. It’s now 4 years old and has survived numerous tumbles and drops over the years.
Occasionally I have to swap the SD card in it and I am always astonished at how thin and light and fragile it is when not in the case.
I would quite happily have an actual similar size phone to what “I have now” if the battery size was bumped up another 50 percent.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You’re blaming the wrong thing again. Newer phones have higher capacity batteries than the old bricks by far. The issue is the screen, SoC, and modem power consumption has gone up too.
localme@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Totally agree! I picked up an old iPhone 6s yesterday and I just couldn’t believe how much lighter and thinner it is than the latest models.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 months ago
Dude, my Galaxy S3 is half as heavy as my current phone. It couldn’t do less but had superior battery life. Smartphones and their OS all have grown bloated.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Exactly. I really liked my old phone, the Moto G Power, which:
I still have it for stuff around the house (gets like 3-4 days w/o the SIM), and I would totally still be using it as my main phone if it still got security updates. The screen is a little larger than I want, but it has been a solid phone for me.
I got a Pixel 8 mostly because of the longer software support and GrapheneOS support, and I honestly don’t care about the camera, and the big bump is pretty annoying. I really wish I could just have my Moto G Power w/ a small screen and longer software support. In fact, I’d totally use a Pinephone if it had reliable calls and texts, better battery life, and better audio quality. I really don’t need much, I just need a phone that will keep working for years and not need to be recharged throughout the day…
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You’re missing something though: phone cell or battery capacity has been getting bigger, not smaller. The issue isn’t the batteries, it’s the other hardware and software needing more and more energy. Modern phones are much faster, have better screens at higher resolution, brightness, even refresh rate. All of this uses energy, even with modern technology being as awesome as it is. Qualcomm, TSMC, ARM, and Apple put quite a bit of work into making these things as efficient as they can be, but we keep demanding more and more from these devices. For many they replaced laptops after all.
It’s a bit like complaining that your new ultra high performance sports car is getting bad range, and complaining about the fuel tank or battery instead of the engine. The tank has only gotten bigger or at least stayed the same, but the engine has gotten hungrier and hungrier with each generation.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s a contributing factor to battery life remaining stagnant. Manufacturers use those advances while continuing to slim phones rather than making an actually flat brick that uses those advances to drastically increase battery life. Regardless of the energy needs of the phone manufacturers can use the difference in height between the back of a phone and the camera bump to include more battery capacity and it will increase both the daily and usable life of the phone.