The new iPhone SE has a bigger battery than the previous one

Apple simply launched the third-generation iPhone SE, and it has some good enhancements, together with assist for sub-6GHz 5G and an A15 processor. But Apple can also be claiming it has longer battery life, and evidently’s partly as a result of the cellphone has a bodily bigger battery — a reality in regards to the new iPhone SE that the corporate confirmed on background in a bunch briefing with reporters.

Apple hasn’t shared the battery capability, so we’ll have to attend for teardowns to see precisely how a lot juice it has. But evaluating the brand new SE’s tech specs web page with the previous one, Apple is promising some first rate enhancements.

For the third-generation SE, Apple is promising as much as 15 hours of video playback, as much as 10 hours of streaming video playback, and as much as 50 hours of audio playback. The previous SE, however, bought as much as 13 hours of video playback, as much as eight hours of streaming video playback, and as much as 40 hours of audio playback.

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Apple additionally noticed good battery positive aspects by placing larger batteries within the iPhone 13 lineup, so it’s not an excessive amount of of a shock to see the corporate repeat that call with the brand new SE. But you’ll nonetheless get higher battery life from shopping for one of many iPhone 13 fashions.

The Mini, which has the weakest battery of the bunch, will get as much as 17 hours of video playback, 13 hours of streaming video playback, and as much as 55 hours of audio playback. Those are all larger than the third-generation SE, despite the fact that the SE has the identical chip, is a bodily bigger gadget, and doesn’t assist battery-hungry mmWave 5G. And Apple selected to maintain the identical actual dimensions from the second-gen iPhone SE to the third. If it had determined to make the cellphone even only a bit thicker, it might need been in a position to enhance the battery much more.

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