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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:55:35 +0200
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Alan, 2025-06-29 21:32:

> On 2025-06-29 12:14, Marion wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:06:40 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
>>
>>
>>>> And my iPhone 16, which is now almost exactly 6 months old, still has
>>>> 100% of its original battery capacity.
>>>
>>> My Google Pixel 6a is now over two years old and has around 95% of its
>>> original battery capacity - and I don't care at all about charging. It
>>> gets charged whenever needed and I don't have any setting enabled to
>>> stop at 80 or 90%.
>>
>> Arno brings up a good point about how wondrously high capacity most Android
>> batteries are nowadays, where you charge Androids only when they need it.
>>
>> Not only that, but if desired, they charge fully in just a couple of hours.
>> Often using the correct fast charger that came with the device in the box.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the poor Apple owners who paid two or three times the value of
>> their device to Apple's profits is stuck charging the iPhone every night.
> 
> And now...
> 
> ...facts!
> 
> Phone          Battery size  Run time  Volume   Weight
> 
> Google Pixel 6a  4,410 mAh   12h:55m   5.88in^3  178g
> 
> Apple iPhone 16  3,561 mAh   17h:47m   4.87in^3  170g

Both phones use ARM based SoCs - but different operating systems and
different software overall.

I usually get battery run times between 18 and 26 hours with my Pixel 6a
for my typical daily usage - which includes a lot of messaging and
e-mail, some web browsing, listening to music and internet radio and
using OSMAnd and the camera from time to time.

So any theoretical run time values are useless if not done by the *same*
tester with the *exact* same test conditions.

> <https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/google-pixel-6a>
> <https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_6a-11229.php>
> 
> <https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-iphone-16>
> <https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_16-13317.php>
> 
> Now...
> 
> ...you were saying?

An iPhone 16 would not work for me and my typical use cases.

-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de