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Redmi K100 & The Smartphone Battery Capacity Arms Race between Xiaomi, Oppo, RealMe & Honor, OnePlus · eSIM STUDIOS Podcast - Tech News + Reviews

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  well all right usa smartphone lovers if you wanted
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  any more salt in your wound as far as the lack
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  of smartphone availabilities here in the united
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  states well here's just another example because
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  the smartphone battery wars the capacity size
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  wars have just begun so there's an escalating
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  battery capacity race among these chinese smartphone
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  manufacturers and it's just getting ridiculous
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  at this point and i'm really freaking jealous
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  so chinese smartphone manufacturers are basically
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  what it looks like to be engaged in an intense
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  competition to see who can come up with the biggest
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  battery size inside smartphones with the xiaomi
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  recently announcing the upcoming redmi k100 which
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  is expected to feature get this a massive 10
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  ,000 mAh silicon carbon battery. I'm going to
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  repeat that. 10 ,000 mAh battery. How insane
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  is that? This trend of extreme battery scaling
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  is led by various Chinese brands such as Honor
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  and Realme, with some devices like the Honor
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  Magic 9 Super Power Model reaching 11. 000 milliamp
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  per hour batteries in plans for even larger 12
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  000 milliamp per hour silicon carbon battery
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  units the push for larger batteries appears to
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  be driven by a focus on high performance mobile
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  gaming what else now this is requiring sustained
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  power for demanding hardware like 185 hertz oled
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  panels and advanced gaming chips such as the
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  Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. While these
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  new capacity expansions set new records compared
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  to standard flagships like the measly Samsung
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  Galaxy S26 Ultra's 5 ,000 mAh battery, questions
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  remain regarding the practical utility of such
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  large batteries and whether they provide a significant
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  battery boost. Questions remain regarding the
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  practicality, utility of such large batteries
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  and whether they provide significant benefits
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  for typical daily usage beyond long -term gaming
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  sessions. I just reviewed a video by TechDroider
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  a couple days ago where the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max
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  was up against the Samsung Galaxy. s26 ultra
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  and in that comparison now this was a battery
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  life test where essentially the screen would
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  be on on both devices and tech droider would
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  have it go through separate functions recording
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  4k video youtube gaming all that stuff continuous
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  display usage to see which device would essentially
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  die the fastest now this test was Surprising,
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  because the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max with an 8 ,000
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  mAh silicon carbon battery only lasted one hour
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  longer in real -world usage compared to the S26
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  Ultra, which has a traditional 5 ,000 mAh lithium
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  -ion battery. So let's say that Xiaomi 18 Pro
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  Max, if that had two more... Let's say it had
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  a 10 ,000 mAh battery instead of an 8 ,000 mAh
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  battery. How much longer is that really going
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  to last users in the real world? Does that mean
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  it's going to last two more hours over an S26
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  Ultra? Because it begs the question, does that
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  really translate to real world longevity? if
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  i'm going to throw a 10 000 million per hour
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  battery in a phone but i'm only going to get
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  like two more hours of screen on time compared
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  to the vs 26 ultra what's the freaking point
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  plus having a bigger battery means it's gonna
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  weigh more so i do like the fact that they are
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  cramming bigger batteries in these devices but
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  i think more optimization something needs to
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  be done more in regards to translating that bigger
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  battery longer usage as far as how much longer
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  these devices can last right two hours longer
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  while it being twice the size of an s26 ultra
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  battery i don't really see the point here it
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  is good though because it does put pressure on
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  companies like samsung on companies like apple
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  on companies like google to put bigger batteries
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  in the galaxy phones in the iphone in the pixel
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  devices so yes real world usage might not get
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  that much benefit out of a 10 000 milliamp hour
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  battery but i am glad to see the pressure being
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  put on some of these other more traditional phone
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  companies to increase their battery size now
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  the s27 ultra the upcoming s27 series is expected
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  to increase their battery size. However, you're
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  not going to see an 8 ,000 million per hour battery
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  in the S27 Ultra. Probably not going to see that
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  until like the, I don't know, S32 Ultra, if that,
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  because Samsung's been sitting on 5 ,000 million
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  per hours for forever. But I believe they are
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  going to put an advertised 5 ,700. milliamp per
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  hour silicon carbon battery in the upcoming s27
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  ultra in real world capacity it's only going
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  to be equivalent to about a 5500 milliamp per
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  hour silicon carbon battery in the upcoming s27
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  ultra the s27 pro is going to get an advertised
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  5500 milliamp per hour battery and real world
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  capacity is right at about 5200 milliamp per
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  hour silicon carbon battery. So you should see
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  some battery life improvement. Now you are going
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  to get a more efficient chip in the upcoming
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  Galaxy devices or any other upcoming future phones,
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  right? As the chips get more advanced, they do
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  provide a little more power, but... overall gains
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  is questionable they are more efficient right
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  the smaller the node the more efficient they
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  tend to be so you will see improved battery life
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  there another way they can improve battery life
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  is with the display the display is a is an enormous
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  power drainer on the battery and as time goes
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  on the displays will get more efficient Samsung's
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  planning on using the M16 OLED panel brand new
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  OLED panel that they're going to introduce on
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  the S27 series and that's that'll be much more
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  efficient But the real change, the real benefit
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  I think these companies will be able to tweak
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  and maximize the usage out of these, screen time,
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  real world usage, is in the operating system.
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  Just how much these companies can tweak and optimize
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  the operating system to use less and less power,
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  to use less background services, background data.
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  Try to minimize that because I really think these
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  Chinese companies have something going on here
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  with these 8 ,000 million per hour batteries,
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  with the OnePlus 16 as a 9 ,000 million per hour
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  battery, the 10 ,000, 11 ,000 million per hour
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  batteries. As I mentioned, those are cool. But
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  until they can really optimize the operating
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  system, I think it's kind of just all for show.
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  Not necessarily a gimmick because it's a real
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  thing, but I don't think they're fully optimizing
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  the operating system because if you really think
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  about it, a 10 ,000 mAh battery theoretically
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  should get... twice the battery life of an s26
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  ultra right because the s26 ultra has a 5 000
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  million per hour battery so if you have a uh
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  another device a competing device with a 10 000
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  million per hour battery you would think well
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  if it's twice the battery size you should get
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  twice the battery life right no unfortunately
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  i think we're not that far away but It comes
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  down to these manufacturers, Oppo, OnePlus, Xiaomi,
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  and their developers to optimize these operating
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  systems to fully take advantage and maximize
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  the capacities of these batteries. Because I
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  personally... would love to see a three day life
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  phone so the one plus 15 and i guess the very
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  best battery life i've ever had on any phone
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  in the history of my life so i've had a ton of
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  phones from a bunch of different manufacturers
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  the very best battery life i've ever gotten on
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  any phone is the one plus 13. i got damn near
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  13 hours of screen on time on a oneplus 13 it
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  was 12 hours and like 47 minutes i made a video
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  about it insane battery life now the oneplus
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  15 however i didn't get as good battery life
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  all right i take that back i didn't get as good
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  screen on time with that device it lasts longer
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  meaning the actual use real world usage from
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  being fully charged to being down to zero or
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  1 % when you would plug it in, you can get two
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  days battery life on a OnePlus 15. And I think
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  with a 8 ,000, 9 ,000, 10 ,000 milliampere hour
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  battery, I think the bar needs to be set at three
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  days battery life. I know that sounds insane,
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  but if the OnePlus 15 is at a two day battery
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  life. and that has a 7 300 milliamp hour battery
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  why can't we see a three -day battery life on
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  these eight nine ten thousand milliamp hour battery
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  phones so i think those days are not that far
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  ahead of us i'm guessing we'll probably see that
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  in the next two years i think i think we're probably
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  two years away look in two years The S28 series
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  will probably have a 6 ,000 mAh battery. These
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  Xiaomi phones, some of these Chinese phones are
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  probably going to have, hell, I don't know, 12
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  ,000 mAh batteries. Pretty crazy. But as I mentioned,
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  I mean, at some point, it's going to translate.
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  It's going to bleed over into a three -day battery
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  life phone. That's going to be awesome. Absolutely
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  cannot wait to see that and or use one of those.
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  But it just drives me crazy that we can't get
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  our hands on these. I mean, I guess you can if
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  you purchase them on Giztop, but you know what
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  I mean, right? You can't go to the carrier and
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  buy one. You can't go to their official website
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  and buy one. The warranty stuff is all up in
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  the air where you don't officially buy it from
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  them. So I don't know. It is what it is. Let
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  me know what you think. Down below, are these
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  crazy battery capacities just hogwash? Is this
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  just for show? Is it a gimmick? Or do you really
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  think this will translate into better battery
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  life, better screen on time, and more gameplay
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  and or overall usage for you? I'll see y 'all
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  on the next one. Peace.