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FiestaST
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Galaxy S22 Ultra vs. iPhone 13 Pro Max Battery Test - PhoneBuff
Tsepz_GP
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Apple literally bringing a Green 13 Pro Max just as my upgrade from my green 11 Pro Max is coming up in April is the ultimate troll!
Very strategic move by them here as a lot of people who will go to a iPhone 13 will probably be coming from an 11
I will however fight the temptation when Vodacom call me and tell them to shove their contract……..I think…..I hope……I trust I will have the strength. Pray for me!
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Apple literally bringing a Green 13 Pro Max just as my upgrade from my green 11 Pro Max is coming up in April is the ultimate troll!
Very strategic move by them here as a lot of people who will go to a iPhone 13 will probably be coming from an 11
I will however fight the temptation when Vodacom call me and tell them to shove their contract……..I think…..I hope……I trust I will have the strength. Pray for me!
Cash is a much nicer option.
Same boat for me, using an 11 Pro. But I'm going to wait for the 14 I think, save some cash in the next few months.Apple literally bringing a Green 13 Pro Max just as my upgrade from my green 11 Pro Max is coming up in April is the ultimate troll!
Very strategic move by them here as a lot of people who will go to a iPhone 13 will probably be coming from an 11
I will however fight the temptation when Vodacom call me and tell them to shove their contract……..I think…..I hope……I trust I will have the strength. Pray for me!
Tsepz_GP
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This is not a good look for Samsung, how can a phone with such a huge battery lose this much!?
Looking at the PhoneBuff rankings both the iPhone 13 Pro Max and older 11 Pro Max are still the top 2 battery champs, insane and both are using batteries less than 4500 mah. The S22 Ultra seems to also be behind S20 Ultra and S21 Ultra, looking at its final result.
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This is not a good look for Samsung, how can a phone with such a huge battery lose this much!?
Looking at the PhoneBuff rankings both the iPhone 13 Pro Max and older 11 Pro Max are still the top 2 battery champs, insane and both are using batteries less than 4500 mah. The S22 Ultra seems to also be behind S20 Ultra and S21 Ultra, looking at its final result.
It’s apples total control and optimization.
Samsung has fair controls with the OS but none with the chip.
Apple has purpose built every bit of the hardware to work specifically with each other and only each other as well as the OS and has also optimized the operating system and first party apps.
Android is designed to work on tens of thousands of devices, as are the chips, Samsung is also using their flavor of Android on hundreds of devices.
Apple makes like 4 and all 4 of them are for the most part the same.
Samsung cannot possible optimize an OS it does not own to work amazingly on all its devices and even to try and do it for 1 would not really be feasible.
That is why Google developed tensor, so they have more first part control and they can design the hardware to do what they want it to do.
The Voice
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This is not a good look for Samsung, how can a phone with such a huge battery lose this much!?
Looking at the PhoneBuff rankings both the iPhone 13 Pro Max and older 11 Pro Max are still the top 2 battery champs, insane and both are using batteries less than 4500 mah. The S22 Ultra seems to also be behind S20 Ultra and S21 Ultra, looking at its final result.
I guess one of the benefits of iPhone is that there is no manufacturer or carrier bloat to try and manage, just the latest version of iOS (which only ever has to work with Apple’s hardware - Android has to try and work on every single device regardless of spec or manufacturer).
Even with bigger batteries the Android phones simply can’t manage them properly because there’s always something running that really shouldn’t be. And it’s why they all have insanely fast charging these days, to offset their terrible battery optimisation.
Tsepz_GP
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Indeed, though it feels like the poor optimization in Android is getting worse rather than better. I remember in the late 2000s/early 2010s Android devices pretty much made 1500-1700 mAh batteries a standard in a time where you could get a phone with 900-1200 mAh and have decent battery life but on Android 1500-1700 mAh was the standard due to larger screens and the OS being quite power hungry, then we eventually got to Android KitKat which seemed to be getting more power efficient, but since Android 10 it seems we’ve seen regression here.
Looking at S22 Ultra in comparison to S20 Ultra and S21 Ultra, there should at least be an improvement from the 20 to the 22 but there seems to be a regression which doesn’t make sense at all.
FiestaST
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The Green iPhone 13 in 59 seconds! - Marques Brownlee
FiestaST
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Agreed.
I am finally an iPhone user (for the first time ever). My blue 13 Pro Max 256GB arrived on Thursday this week.
Impressions thus far are overwhelmingly positive. The limited Home Screen options don’t bother me as my Android pages didn’t look very different anyway. The slickness of things in general, and reliability of notifications and widgets, is such a massive step up for me compared to even recent Android flagships from Samsung and OnePlus. There’s a certain reliability or surety that I’d find hard to verbally convey to a diehard Android user.
I was concerned at the lack of Relay Pro for Reddit on iOS, but Apollo has been an acceptable alternative. The Discovery apps, especially the banking one, are so much less **** on iOS.
Impressions thus far are overwhelmingly positive. The limited Home Screen options don’t bother me as my Android pages didn’t look very different anyway. The slickness of things in general, and reliability of notifications and widgets, is such a massive step up for me compared to even recent Android flagships from Samsung and OnePlus. There’s a certain reliability or surety that I’d find hard to verbally convey to a diehard Android user.
I was concerned at the lack of Relay Pro for Reddit on iOS, but Apollo has been an acceptable alternative. The Discovery apps, especially the banking one, are so much less **** on iOS.
genetic
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iOS runs everything better than Android. It's just a more polished experience.
This keyboard has a learning curve though. I’m getting there I think. The battery life on this thing makes no sense. Has Apple miniaturised a fusion drive or something…
FiestaST
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All brand name Apps should be more polished & run better on iOS even compared to the highest tier Droid devices.
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FiestaST
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The Voice
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That’s kind of the problem for Android developers, though: the sheer number of top tier devices every year. Samsung released 5 recently (writing apps for the Fold and Flip must’ve been fun), Google released a couple, and then the slew of phones that came out from all the Chinese manufacturers. Of course, this doesn’t even include the dozens of phones they all release annually that sit lower in the pecking order. They all have a bastardised carrier version of Android, too, with all manufacturer skins baked in (sans Google Pixel, obviously). Android users are also generally much slower to adopt the latest version, which must be a headache.
Enter Apple, who only release 4 phones every year, all running pure iOS only, straight from Apple. No carrier version, no manufacturer skin bloat. As a dev, you only have to worry how your app is going to run on 4 specific phones all running the same version of iOS (it’s adoption rate is something like 60%+ for whatever the latest version is). And that’s for an entire cycle. Just update when needed, and it’s good to go.
SauRoNZA
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Two instances of Android disappointment in the last two days.
Friday went to a mate for a braai and upon wanting to change the tunes from his (very new 2021 model something or other) I’m greeted with Spotify has died and needs to restart and would you like to wait or force it now.
This morning I go to the pharmacy and all their display screens are advising VLC has **** the bed and needs to be helped along.
And people wonder why I stick with Apple?
Friday went to a mate for a braai and upon wanting to change the tunes from his (very new 2021 model something or other) I’m greeted with Spotify has died and needs to restart and would you like to wait or force it now.
This morning I go to the pharmacy and all their display screens are advising VLC has **** the bed and needs to be helped along.
And people wonder why I stick with Apple?