Replied to the other comment - but I poorly read your message that I responded to. You're absolutely right that this wouldn't be a normal / routine use-case.

My iPhone mini lasts about 6 hours. If I hike in the cold it lasts maybe 2.5 hours tops, and hikes are usually 4-6 hours total, so it's usually dead by the time I'm done, and so I can't tap to ride the train home unless I bring a power bank.

If I have a long train ride, like 2 hours, and I read on it, it'll usually use about 50% of the battery in that duration.

If I go somewhere new, and use google maps a lot to navigate around, it'll last about 3 hours total.

If I go somewhere with bad cellular signal, it constantly fights to connect and drains incredibly quickly, often in a matter of 2 hours.

The Air looks like it's supposed to have a battery that's about 30% larger than the mini's, and the mini is wildly insufficient for regular use.

> How many people hike longer than their battery lasts?

ROTFL. All of them. If your phone stops in a middle of a forest, what do you do ? Just sit there until (magically) starts again ?

People go on hikes in areas where there are multiple days between charging opportunities.

Hiking often also occurs in areas with bad or no coverage causing higher battery consumption with the phone trying to connect. If you don't mitigate this (with eg. turning off or enabling airplane mode) this will burn through battery much faster than the usual city dwelling.

Yeah my bad, I poorly read the post I was replying to. I'll leave my comment, because maybe someone is hardcore enough to do that.

I do want to see how the advertised battery life stacks up against the real-world observation. It might be enough, it might not be, let's see :)