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The problem with these super-skinny phones that we’re all getting is that battery life, frankly, sucks. I still remember a time when battery life could be measured in days, not hours. If the latest Google X Phone rumour is to be believed, it’ll come packing a big battery rivalling the Motorola MAXX line. But would you buy it if it wasn’t the thinnest phone in the world?
I don’t know about you, but I was happy with the thickness of the iPhone 4S for example. Things get ever smaller, so what I’m saying is, shrink the components but keep the device the same thickness and slap a whopping big battery in there. I mean, it’s not like battery tech is magically going to get any better any time soon, so size is the way to go, along with aggressive power management.
If Motorola/Google made a Nexus 4-class device that was a little bit thicker, but with a huge battery, I’d buy it. Would you?
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YES YES YES A thousand times YES!
What this guy said, but with even more exclamation marks.
yep, I don’t know many people who wouldn’t
Agreed. I don’t know why there hasn’t been a manufacturer to take this seriously and run with it. . . surely their research teams have come back with this info. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t complain about their battery on an almost daily basis.
Yes. Absolutely.
I’d rather not have a phone. The smoke signal system used by cavemen is still reliable
Yes
I’d up to 13mm
Same as everyone above.
Give me a phone that’s 15mm thick, and cram it full of battery!
It’s not beyond the wit of man to cram a 7500mAh of power into that space envelope if things are arranged correctly.
So what they need is an interior decorator
Or an industrial design engineer that doesn’t have anorexic tendencies.
Nah you want the people who design boats – somehow they manage to pack an entire house into a 30ft vessel + all the stuff you need to sail and plenty of storage for water and food.
Without a single hesitation…YES
Oh god yes. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. Much yes. Yes with cherries on top.
You sound like Meg Ryan
I’ll have what he’s having..
So much yes
If they’d actually made the screen bigger ie wider as well as longer, like everyone told them they wanted then that would have increased the cubic capacity and made more room for a bigger battery, without having to make it thicker anyway.
Yes, because we all want our devices to be thicker and heavier.
Wait! What!?
We want a phone that will last more than 8hrs away from a power source with moderate to heavy use!
So we want better batteries. Not thicker, heavier devices.
We need advancements in battery technology coupled with more efficient devices.
End of conversation. Now go clean your room while I enjoy this mighty fine cup of tea.
Until those battery technologies make an appearance in the commercial world, I’ll take a slightly thicker phone that can go the distance over an anorexic one that won’t.
And that’s why there are lots and lots of different phones out there. Pick one with a great battery life.
actually we want both. Even if we could employ the most efficient battery possible that could give us 3 days of heavy use in its current format I would happily sacrifice 2 or 3 millimetres thickness and an extra 50g to be able to add a day or two to that.
MY brother in law bought an iPhone 5 and he hates the fact its so light, says he forgets he’s carrying it half the time and has a moment of panic when he thinks he’s left it somewhere. plus weight = quality feel in my opinion like the previous stainless steel trimmed iPhones when Steve Jobs was watching over everything.
weight = quality is generational.
When sh*t is made from graphene and whatnot, weight won’t even factor in to the quality of a product. Stop being so damned antiquated man!
I’d like to place an order for 150g of ‘whatnot’ please
generational ?!?! I dont think so Spitfire’s were made of aluminium, but a plane is big thing so it needs to be light, similarly a 100 inch TV needs to be light to hang it on a wall without having hire a crane, so Graphene would be a good material to use.
But don’t think Graphene is going to replace everything, why make a phone case from Graphene, to make it lighter ???? maybe I should by a new Graphene wedding ring for my wife after all Gold is Heavy and cheap.
My old KU990 viewty’s battery could be measured in weeks for about 3 years until it expanded to the point the backing case would pop off randomly, a new 3 quid battery and it was like new again until my parents decided to get me a samsung Europa and had to give the viewty away. I miss my viewty
Obviously! I find phones too thin nowadays so some extra thickness would be appreciated
Yes – in fact I already did. The extended battery on my old Galaxy SII made the phone thicker and in practice I barely noticed. I did however notice the extra juice!
God yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Double the size of my S3, tripling the size of my battery (at least). A hundred, thousand, million times yes!
Defo
YES! Been saying this on the comments for ages! along with @PrinterElf
there was nothing wrong with the iPhone 4/4S thickness, the iPhone 5 should have kept the same thickness, and a lot more battery power! – just one example
YES.
I really don’t get why they made the iPhone 5 thinner and lighter, was quite happy with the width and weight of my iPhone 4.
Everything is brought down to the lowest common denominator – specs. Wasn’t the Nokia 920 hammered because it was 20% heavier than an i5? Can’t have it both ways.
Yeah it was a bit of a pies phone. It would have been awesome if they had used that to bump the battery size up to 2500mAh+ or something though
Yes!
Maybe, maybe not. I quite like the fact that I have a nice slim phone that will last an evening if it starts full, no matter how hard it is hammered. If I am out all day, then I have a battery case that I can slap on the back that more than doubles the battery life while increasing the thickness by about 75%.
So, light use day + slim phone. Heavy day = heavy phone.
For me it’s a good compromise.
So, you have something different for your “heavy days”?…
No, I love how my iPhone 5 fits in to my pocket and i can hardly feel it there. So much better than my 4s! I also have no issue charging my phone every night and the battery lasts me all day so Id rather keep it how it is.
How tight are your pockets for 1.7mm to make a noticeable difference?!
but surely not noticing your phone there is kind of a bad thing. i like the fact my phone i can feel, if i cant feel it it means some thieving b@stard has nicked it!
Sure it’s impressive to get phones slimmer and slimmer but it’s pointless. A phone is meant to be a practical gadget. Low battery life is not practical…
Definitely, phones are already loads thinner than they really need to be. Before smartphones we were used to phones far thicker than they are now. Not saying we should go back to rbick sized phone but this battle to the thinnest at the sacrafice of battery life is pointless.
Given we’re only talking about 1mm or so, YES
YES YES YES YES YES! FUCKING HELL YES
yes.. god yes.. 3-5mm for double power will win me over..
YES! have just got a nexus 4 and getting rid of my iphone 5 as the battery just doesn’t cut it, im hoping the nexus does better!!!
For the love of all that is holy, YEEESSSS!!! Can phone manufacturers figure this out already?
OMG YES PLEASE, i dont think may people care about the thickness of the phone within reason, most modern phones are slim, even phones from a few years ago where still not that fat, battery advancements do not appear to have moved as fast forward as the tech they are meant to power, but i wud love a standard battery in my galaxy s3 with say 3500mAh battery life
No number that can express the word, ‘yes’ enough exists.
No, I want better battery life, they could improve upon R&D and create more powerful thinner batteries, for the love of god they can send a man to the moon in the sixties but cannot improve batteries?!!?
YES (please) that is all
hell I would even want it thicker to allow inductive charging
I’m still waiting for the accessory so I can inductively charge my Nexus 4
i just bought a normal Oi Charging pad off Amazon Works like a treat with the nexus 4
What is an Oi Charging Pad (searched Google and got this post as reference!)?
Never mind, think you meant Qi
Which one did you buy as seems to be several versions knocking around and don’t want to buy the wrong one!
Sorry my Mistake i got a Maxell Air Voltage Wireless Qi Charger. works perfect, Does get a good bit hotter than wired charging but never peaks above 40Degress C which im told is safe
Cheers, ordered at lunch this one for £35 so I’ll report back on it when it arrives.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00ANA8TA0/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
Buy one of these then, I did and it works perfectly with my Nexus 4 http://www.bitmore.co.uk/collections/wireless-smart-charging/products/qi-wireless-charging-pad
Oh I’m too late, nevermind.
Thanks, that’s the one I got
have you got it yet? any good?
It’s great (once you cover the flashing blue light with bluetack!)
I Love my Nexus 4 but the Batt Life on it is even worse than the iphone i had before it
i’m looking at upgrading my phone and i was thinking iPhone, now i love the size of the screen of the 5 but with it’s *i weigh nothing* attitude i know that it’s not the phone for me. i’d drop it, i’d put it in a pocket of my jeans and loose it (com’on we all do it. jeans have 5 pockets minimum usualy and it still takes you a moment to find the bloody thing)
I’m looking for a phone that has a nice weight that i know it’s in my pocket, again the dimensions need to be enough that when i leave the house i dont want to think ‘oooh i left my phone in doors’
my lumia 800 is for all intents and purposes the perfect phone for me, it’s heavy enough that it sits firmly in hand, it’s chunky enough that again it fits firmly in hand, the screen is nice, but it has shocking battery life.
i know i have gone off at a tangent but the point is, i think the consumer would be happy with something that weighs a bit, or makes a slight bulge in my jeans. (it’s the only bulge i have in my jeans unfortunately) if there was the battery life of the nokia 3310.
Silly question really as you can get extended/double batteries with modified back covers. Sorry ipooners etc.
Yes…ish. Its more important to me to have a swappable battery. All batteries have a lifespan, and that lifespan is usually less than the 2 years of most decent tariffs. And the battery isn’t usually covered by the warranty. So give me a decent battery that I can swap in an emergency / at the end of its lifespan.
Classic Stone Cold Steve Austin give me a HELL YEAH moment!
I think… yes. Definately yes.
As it is my current phone is quite chunky and as a bonus it’s curved back sits nicely in my largish hand.
I don’t understand why the objective is to get phones as slim as possible, they’re not at all comfortable to use, so if I could get a thicker phone with the added bonus of a longer battery life I would jump at the chance.
like most of ppl in here YES x100!!!