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Editor’s Note: This article is from the public WeChat account “DoNews” (ID: ilovedonews), author maomaobear, 36 氪 Posted with permission.
Last week, Apple launched its new annual product, the iPhone 12 series, of which the iPhone 12 Mini is a new series. The ultra-small full screen, the ultra-light and slim size, and the 133 grams of weight make people love it.
You know, the 5.4-inch full-screen iPhone 12 Mini weighs less than the 3.5-inch iPhone of 4 years ago. However, many people have doubts about the battery life of the iPhone 12 Mini.
Although Apple officially gave a long enough video playback time, the 2227 mAh battery capacity is still in doubt.
So is the battery life of the iPhone 12 mini enough?
The secret to Apple’s battery life
Although the battery capacity of Apple mobile phones has always been small, Apple’s battery life has been very good. According to Gsmarena’s correct test method (use the instrument to unify the screen brightness, and then test the battery life, to avoid the impact of different automatic brightness settings of each mobile phone on the battery life )
Apple mobile phones have maintained a web browsing time of more than 10 hours for a long time, which is quite good among many mobile phones.
However, if you look at the 3G call time, Apple does not stand out, its call time is very short compared to Android phones with large batteries.
The battery of the Iphone se 2020 is only 1800mah, but the web browsing time of this phone is more than 13 hours.
With a 6000mah ROG mobile phone, when the high refresh rate is on, the time to browse the web is also 13 hours.
Iphone has terrifying long battery life when browsing the web and swiping light apps like WeChat.
However, for 3G calls with similar power consumption, the iPhone SE 2020 is 10 hours, which is actually shorter than the time to surf the web. The 6000mah ROG Phone lasts 40 hours, four times longer than the 2020 iPhone SE.
Therefore, the secret to iPhone battery life is that light apps have long battery life, while heavy apps or ultra-low power apps for calls show insufficient battery life.
How did Apple do it?
Generally speaking, the lightweight application of browsing the web, because the screen must be on, the power consumption should be higher than that of 3G calls, but Apple miraculously achieved lower power consumption of daily light applications . How did Apple do it?
This is due to Apple’s large and small core design. On the one hand, Apple’s small core has been using the latest technology, for example, the 5nm process is now available to reduce power consumption.
On the other hand, Apple’s small core performance is very powerful. Apple’s small core was developed from A6. The specifications are equivalent to the A72 core specifications of the ARM public version, and the performance is close to the level of A75.
In this way, almost all Apple’s lightweight applications are powered on the small core, while the small core of ordinary Android phones can be on standby. When browsing applications like the web, you still need to turn on the big core.
Therefore, Apple has a very low power consumption when browsing the web.
On the other hand, Apple has always been conservative in resolution, refresh rate, and screen area. The Iphone12 still uses a 60Hz refresh rate to save power.
In the iPhone SE 2020, Apple still uses the old low-resolution display, which is particularly energy efficient.
In terms of software, IOS prohibits the automatic launch of various applications and the automatic background, which reduces the load and also contributes to the extension of the battery life.
With software and hardware, you will increase the battery life of Apple’s lightweight app.
Will the iPhone 12 Mini have battery life issues?
Judging by the specs of the iPhone 12 Mini, its 5.4-inch screen with bangs removed and converted to a 16-to-9 ratio, the actual screen is similar to the iPhone SE 2020.
In the SOC process, 5nm is more advanced than 7nm, and the iPhone 12 Mini’s light battery life is more optimistic than that of the iPhone 12 Mini.
If your mobile phone is mainly WeChat, web pages, various text and image apps, then the battery life of the iPhone 12 Mini will have no problem.
However, Apple’s solution also has Apple’s problems, and it involves high intensity applications like 3D games.
When Apple wants to open a large core and the GPU needs to run at high speed, the power saving measures will no longer be used, it can be used for as long as it has the battery.
At that time, more than 2,000 kha of electricity was drawn.
Therefore, the battery life of the iPhone 12 Mini depends on how you use it. There is no problem with mild applications and you can stop playing games.
