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If you’re getting tired of seeing the purported guts of the iPhone 5, we feel for you. But it’s like following a biscuit crumb trail that might, possibly, hopefully lead us to some real semblance of information about the next iPhone. Or at least help us connect the dots. Case in point: here’s the rumoured iPhone 5 battery. It’s taller and bigger.
Why does it matter that this leaked iPhone 5 battery is taller? Well, all the leaked cases of the iPhone 5 have so far shown an iPhone that’s taller than its predecessor. And if the iPhone 5 really is taller, the iPhone 5 would theoretically have more room for its internals which means more room for a battery which mean more room for a TALLER battery which means more legitimacy in the rumoured taller iPhone 5 design. Full circle and all that. Not to mention that a bigger battery could power all the 4G action the iPhone 5 will supposedly/probably have. Those faster 4G speeds suck batteries dry, a bigger battery would obviously help battery life in the iPhone 5.
iResq, the guys who’ve had their hands in leaked parts before, says the battery for the iPhone 5 is 3.8V/5.45Whr while the iPhone 4S is 3.7V/5.3Whr. The battery is nearly half an inch taller than the 4S battery but also thinner (which fits along with the iPhone 5 being a smidge thinner than the 4S). So how does the battery fit within the leaked iPhone 5 case? Perfectly. How convenient! Take a look:
So again, leaked internal parts fitting perfectly into the leaked iPhone case might very well mean the rumoured two-tone, elongated body is very real. Or a very, very excellent fake. [iResq via MacRumors]
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I cannot help but marvel at the technology available to us today and the fact that manufacturing is at such an advanced level, that components can be shrunk to such a degree, that they fit perfectly into the main device! I remember my first pocket calculator, where the battery was the size of a toaster. It was nearly unusable. Yet the manufacturers persevered and got it shrunk to enable it to fit inside the body. And here we are today. Glory days indeed.
Only 7 more days to go … only 7 more days to go.
“…it’s like following a biscuit crumb trail that might, possibly, hopefully lead us to some real semblance of information about the next iPhone.”
Or you could just wait for the official announcement.
What does that work out to in mAh? I got around 1400mAh but that seems far too low. Maybe I need more coffee..
coffeeeeeeeeeeeee. Ahem.
Looks like a few sites agree with me. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408365,00.asp
Kinda pales in comparison to the 3,000mAh battery in the Note 2!
Sorry *3,000+mAh battery
I think you mean, Grumpy-be-gones
If the new iPhone actually looks like this, then I suppose it’s the logical product for a company that spends more on advertising than it does on R&D.
After all the waffle that this was the last product that Steve Jobs worked on (and is therefore semi-divine by association) people are going to be very disappointed when it turns out to be an iterative upgrade.
Unless the new iPhone has some killer feature that nobody’s picked up on yet, I think it’ll mark the inflection point in Apple’s fortunes.
The killer feature is that it’s Longer! I wonder what advertising spiel they’ll do.
“Now I no longer lose my phone in my deep pockets, thanks Apple!”
“Enjoy widescreen movies like you’ve never experienced them before* The New Iphone.”
*on an Iphone.
My pockets are like Narnia.
No, it’ll be more along the lines of “The new iPhone. It’s an iPhone”
I believe they are going with “the galaxy s3 for kids”.
It’s the other way round – it’ll be like those Harry Potter books with “grown up” covers.
Yea I have to say if all they do is ‘add another row of icons’ and pop some LTE in there (which I do think is all its going to be) that will be a good 2 years now of Apple doing very little. Going to be a tough choice between a 5 and an S3 (I’m currently 4S).