Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On 2025-06-30 09:55, Arno Welzel wrote:

Alan, 2025-06-29 21:32:
 

On 2025-06-29 12:14, Marion wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:06:40 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
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And my iPhone 16, which is now almost exactly 6 months old, still has
100% of its original battery capacity.

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My Google Pixel 6a is now over two years old and has around 95% of its
original battery capacity - and I don't care at all about charging. It
gets charged whenever needed and I don't have any setting enabled to
stop at 80 or 90%.

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Arno brings up a good point about how wondrously high capacity most Android
batteries are nowadays, where you charge Androids only when they need it.
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Not only that, but if desired, they charge fully in just a couple of hours.
Often using the correct fast charger that came with the device in the box.
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Meanwhile, the poor Apple owners who paid two or three times the value of
their device to Apple's profits is stuck charging the iPhone every night.

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And now...
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...facts!
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Phone          Battery size  Run time  Volume   Weight
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Google Pixel 6a  4,410 mAh   12h:55m   5.88in^3  178g
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Apple iPhone 16  3,561 mAh   17h:47m   4.87in^3  170g

 Both phones use ARM based SoCs - but different operating systems and
different software overall.
 I usually get battery run times between 18 and 26 hours with my Pixel 6a
for my typical daily usage - which includes a lot of messaging and
e-mail, some web browsing, listening to music and internet radio and
using OSMAnd and the camera from time to time.
 So any theoretical run time values are useless if not done by the *same*
tester with the *exact* same test conditions.

I don't know about PC Magazines testing methods, but I suspect they know what they're doing. I very much doubt that differences in testing are able to account for that large a difference in run times.
So the chances are very good that if you used an iPhone 16 as you use your Pixel 6a, you'd see run times that were longer than your Google phone's; maybe not nearly 50% longer, but still.
But the point I was making was to address this:
"Meanwhile, the poor Apple owners who paid two or three times the value of their device to Apple's profits is stuck charging the iPhone every night."
Based on what I showed, I am not "stuck" with doing so.
It's just a convenient routine for ME.
:-)

 

<https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/google-pixel-6a>
<https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_6a-11229.php>
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<https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-iphone-16>
<https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_16-13317.php>
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Now...
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...you were saying?

 An iPhone 16 would not work for me and my typical use cases.
 

I understand, and you'll note my reply was not to you.
:-)