iPhone 13 leak just revealed a surprise upgrade

iPhone 13 leak but revealed a surprise upgrade

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The four iPhone 12 handsets are excellent smartphones, simply at that place's i issue across the board: battery life. In our iPhone 12 battery test, we found that both the regular and Pro models suffered compared to the iPhone 11, and the consequence is specially pronounced when playing 3D games.

It looks like Apple won't be making the same fault twice. Co-ordinate to Ming-Chi Kuo – the Apple tree analyst with a very stiff track record of accurate predictions – the iPhone 13 will come with a new kind of battery technology that could increase capacity without the need for a larger footprint.

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An investment notation, published by 9to5Mac, has the total details where a company called Jialianyi is expected to increase its revenue by 100% yr on year by supplying Apple with new battery engineering science.

"Jialianyi is expected to obtain most 40-fifty% of orders for battery soft boards for iPhone xiii and thirteen mini," Kuo writes. "We predict that iPhone 13 will be the offset iPhone model to prefer battery soft board technology, which volition help save internal space and reduce costs."

He goes on to add that while batteries for the iPhone 12 were supplied by Xinxing, Huatong, Yaohua and TTM, soft boards for the iPhone 13 will come from Xinxing, Huatong and the aforementioned Jialianyi.

"We believe that the number of battery panels for the iPhone 13 series is reduced due to the reduced number of suppliers, which will do good the long-term profits of the suppliers," the note continues. "As a new entrant, Jialianyi is the biggest casher of the iPhone 13 series's switch to battery soft board pattern."

Why does this thing? Well, soft board batteries accept fewer layers than those in previous iPhones, significant that Apple tree could increase chapters without making the phones thicker. Alternatively, Apple tree could make the iPhone 13 even thinner without losing battery life. Either way, information technology'south pretty clear why Apple would be keen to make the switch.

Keeping the dimensions the same with a capacity boost would certainly help with Apple's aim to introduce 120Hz screens – something that the weak battery life on the iPhone 12 ruled out. And given nosotros've already heard that the company is planning on bringing LTPO displays to iPhone 13 Pro models, it looks like this could all exist part of the main program.

The benefit of LTPO panels, which is available on the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note Ultra, is that the screen tin dynamically scale its refresh rate. This can aid salvage bombardment life too.

For now if yous want the longest battery life on a new iPhone, the iPhone 12 Pro Max is your all-time bet. Provided you desire a huge vi.seven-inch display, this handset lasted about two hours longer on our tests than the iPhone 12 Pro.

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are institute all over the web and in the occasional mag too. When not weighing upward the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, y'all'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games excess. Or, more than probable, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.