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Plus battery life is the first thing to go when they aim for thinness.

I know they've improved battery life in the SE, but still, overall the trend is thinner with a smaller capacity battery (but more efficient components, so you ultimately break even).

I have a phone with a 3100 mAh battery @ 5.1" 1080p, it isn't the thinnest phone around, but boy does it last three or four days. It is super nice. We need more phones like that.

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It seems to me like Apple almost wants you to charge your phone almost daily... I do not know... I do not see the reason for them too keep slimming their phones when it noticeably affects the battery. I kinda dislike their attitude. Expected to do the same as they did with laptops, for example, where MacBook Pro came so light and thin that I was like, it's a little heavier than Air and a little thicker, but hell it works better! They didn't sacrifice anything at brought amazing performances both in terms of raw computational power and battery life. What bugs me is that iPhone SE got thinner... WHY?! Why Apple didn't fill that space that saved by battery... Nobody would say, HEY CHANGE IT! Never enough battery power

If the battery lasts 1.5 days, people have to start charging their phones in the middle of the day - which is usually a bad time and a huge inconvenience. If you have to charge it every day, you don't notice it, if the battery runs out in your lunch break, you will curse Apple for the bad battery life.

In contrast, if you charge your phone daily anyway, you don't gain anything by 0.5 days of added battery life.

Except that when they claim 1 day battery power, it's actually at most 0.5 days, with slightly above average usage or after the phone has aged a year. I'd love to have something that's designed for 1.5 days, so that I could actually get a full day out of it!

It's so much less harrowing, though, to get home with 33% of your battery left than 5%. Not to mention those days when you go out for dinner or drinks after work -- you have to carry a battery?

> I have a phone with a 3100 mAh battery @ 5.1" 1080p

Which one's that? Sounds like a dream phone for me :)

Sounds like something modern from Xiaomi line. You can get flagship specs for around 300$ with SD/dual SIM slot and +3000mAh battery.

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