The iPhone 17 Air and Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim could both come with one main drawback

Date:
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:55:37 +0000

Description:
The iPhone 17 Air and Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim might struggle for battery
life, a new rumor claims.

FULL STORY ======================================================================New claims emerge about Apple and Samsungs rumored super-thin phones The devices will reportedly have only a middling battery life Battery life could suffer
if the thin chassis cant adequately dissipate heat

Theres been much talk in recent months about the so-called iPhone 17 Air , a seriously slimmed down version of Apples flagship phone. And Apples not
alone, with Samsung reportedly working on a Galaxy S25 Slim phone to rival Apples offering. Yet both devices could come with a notable downside, and its all thanks to their form factors.

According to leaker Digital Chat Station on Weibo (via Notebookcheck ), both the iPhone and the Samsung phone will be around 5-6mm thick. Compare that to 7.8mm for the iPhone 16 and 7.6mm for the Samsung Galaxy S24 and you get an idea of how much thinner the new phones will be.

But all that slimness comes at a cost, says Digital Chat Station. According
to its post, that cost will make itself known in the devices batteries, which will have capacities of 3,000mAh to 4,000mAh.

On first blush, that might not seem like much of a problem after all, the batteries in the iPhone 16 and Samsung Galaxy S24 already fall within that range. But the issue here is that the thinner bodies of the upcoming phones could make heat dissipation much trickier.

Heat can negatively affect battery life, so if the super-slim chassis retain more warmth than their regular-sized siblings, it could mean you find
yourself reaching for the charging cable a lot more frequently. Feeling the heat (Image credit: Future)

Part of the problem is the high-end chips were expecting to see inside these phones. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to get Apples A19 chip, while Samsungs S25 Slim could be outfitted with the Snapdragon 8 Elite . While these chips are incredibly performant (or are expected to be, in the case of the unreleased A19), keeping them cool in such thin devices could prove to be difficult.

That said, both Apples chips and their Snapdragon rivals are known to be very efficient and able to output strong performance without getting unreasonably hot, so the battery impact might not be as bad as feared. For one thing, it seems unlikely that Apple would release a phone that doesnt have what it
calls all-day battery life such is the prevalence of that phrase at Apples recent launches.

Still, we expect that the thinner cases will bring with them all sorts of engineering challenges, including heat dissipation and its impact on battery life, so well have to see whether theres a noticeable deterioration when the phones launch this year.

And theres one other interesting outcome we might see from the release of these devices: they could spur other phone makers into boosting their own products battery capacities. Digital Chat Station notes that some manufacturers of Android phones are thinking about releasing phones with battery capacities of 5,000mAh and higher. That means if battery life is important to you, its worth keeping an eye on phone launches over the next 12 months. You might also like Here's just how thin the iPhone 17 Air could be and it's thinner than the rumored Galaxy S25 Slim Apple rumored to have started production on the iPhone 17 Air Leaked Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim benchmark hints at the phone's key specs



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