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All four iPhone 12 phones are excellent smartphones, but there’s a catch across the board: battery life. In our battery test of the iPhone 12, we found that both the regular model and the Pro suffered compared to the iPhone 11, and the effect is especially pronounced when playing 3D games.
It seems like Apple won’t make the same mistake twice. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the Apple analyst with a very strong 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.
An investment note, published by 9to5Mac, has all the details where a company called Jialianyi is expected to increase its revenue by 100% year over year by supplying Apple with new battery technology.
“Jialianyi is expected to get 40-50% of iPhone 13 and 13 mini battery soft plate orders,” Kuo writes. “We predict that the iPhone 13 will be the first iPhone model to adopt battery soft plate technology, which will help save internal space and lower costs.”
He goes on to add that while the batteries for the iPhone 12 were supplied by Xinxing, Huatong, Yaohua and TTM, the soft plates 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 benefit the long-term profits of the suppliers,” the note continues. “As a new entrant, Jialianyi is the biggest beneficiary of the shift from the iPhone 13 series to the battery soft plate design.”
Why does this matter? Well, soft plate batteries have fewer layers than older iPhones, which means Apple could increase capacity without making the phones thicker. Alternatively, Apple could make the iPhone 13 even thinner without losing battery life. Either way, it’s pretty clear why Apple would be willing to make the switch.
Keeping the same dimensions with an increase in capacity would certainly help with Apple’s goal of introducing 120Hz displays, something the iPhone 12’s poor battery life ruled out. And since we’ve already heard that the company plans to bring LTPO displays to the iPhone 13 Pro models, it seems this could all be part of the master plan.
The benefit of the LTPO panels, which is available on the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note Ultra, is that the display can dynamically scale its refresh rate. This can also help save battery life.
For now, if you want the longest battery life in a new iPhone, the iPhone 12 Pro Max is your best bet. Whenever you want a big 6.7-inch screen, this phone lasted almost 2 hours longer in our tests than the iPhone 12 Pro.
