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by kilo_bravo_3 3044 days ago
They are in your phone.

10 years ago it was almost impossible to find a phone with a battery of over 1500 mAh. Today the standard size is 3000 mAh.

While the capacity has doubled, the volume of the battery has stayed the same or diminished.

There are phones with 5000, 6000, and even 10000 mAh batteries on the market today.

That's how I know that everyone complaining about thinner phones and reduced battery life is kidding themselves.

Thinphones are the top sellers, thickphones with batteries that last for days are not.

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> thickphones with batteries that last for days are not.

Point me to a recent one with a recent build of Android that receives regular security updates from a reputable builder and I'll buy it immediately. I'd line up outside a building like it was Black Friday to buy a Galaxy 8 or Pixel 2 with an integrated 10000mAh battery.

But, alas, this magical unicorn "thickphone" doesn't exist on the market, even if some random Chinese manufacturer that will be gone tomorrow makes one with a four year old SoC and a three year old build of Android with no security updates since the phone's release two years ago...

lg v20 with an aftermarket battery. I regularly go three days without charging.
>That's how I know that everyone complaining about thinner phones and reduced battery life is kidding themselves.

I definitely get worse battery life out of my iPhone 6s than I did with my iPhone 4 which was worse than my feature phones. My Nexus 6p is worse than any listed so far as well.

Putting 8 core processors in phones to (poorly) compensate for a pig of an operating system and app ecosystem doesn't help.