Note 8 Battery Capacity. Setting Up Right Expectations!

[ThrottleJohnny]

Johnny - "Thin" and "A Big Ugly Wort" on the back are quite a bit different!

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But it proves my point. Everyone cares about aesthetics, whether they admit it or not.

 

[jhimmel]

But it proves my point. Everyone cares about aesthetics, whether they admit it or not.

Not really. If they made it thicker, the hump could be gone and the bigger battery could be there. Win, win.

 

[Climb14er]

Charger at work, at home and in the car. That is the definition of a power user lol

Charger at work... TWO chargers at home... charger in car... and spare battery pack. ALL FAST CHARGERS. This is what's needed for any hard power user. And... the Samsung battery will degrade anyway under hard use. This is my experience with Note 5 and for any hard power user with most sealed batteries. Sammy will dumb down their Note 8 battery. Hard users beware.

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

Not really. If they made it thicker, the hump could be gone and the bigger battery could be there. Win, win.

Depends on how thick lol

And that camera hump is not confirmed yet.

 

[notefreak]

Charger at work... TWO chargers at home... charger in car... and spare battery pack. ALL FAST CHARGERS. This is what's needed for any hard power user. And... the Samsung battery will degrade anyway under hard use. This is my experience with Note 5 and for any hard power user with most sealed batteries. Sammy will dumb down their Note 8 battery. Hard users beware.

Agreed. And these days I am so disappointed with the prospect of such a crappy battery that I am seriously considering ditching Samsung forever. Of all the stupid things they have dond, this one is the worst.

 

[Nakrohtap]

The degradation of the battery they used in the S8 is not supposed to be as bad as previous phones. Even thought the battery sizes are not increasing, the batteries should hold up longer over time.

 

[Diehlirious]

I hope we don't & I don't think we'll be getting 4k but if it's 1440 x 2960 like the S8 & you're able to adjust the display, I'll def be experimenting w/ that to see how some changes effect battery life.

 

[103Softail]

Even folks here prefer the same. Read the comments in the camera hump thread. We say we're different, but push come to shove, we're not.

Camera hump, ugly. Thicker overall phone, not ugly!

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

Camera hump, ugly. Thicker overall phone, not ugly!

Note 8, not official yet!

 

[103Softail]

Note 8, not official yet!

No, but new cases are on show so we can only hope the camel has gone and a slightly thicker phone with bigger battery would be fine.

 

[notefreak]

More and more devastated about 3300 mah rumor every day. Does anyone think Blass can be wrong and they will at least give us 3500 mah?

 

[Aquila]

More and more devastated about 3300 mah rumor every day. Does anyone think Blass can be wrong and they will at least give us 3500 mah?

No, the s-pen takes up space. There's also only like a 6% increase in battery size. So if your average screen on time is 6 hours, we're talking about 20 minutes difference in battery usage.

 

[Golfdriver97]

More and more devastated about 3300 mah rumor every day. Does anyone think Blass can be wrong and they will at least give us 3500 mah?

Given his track record, I highly doubt he is wrong.

 

[L0n3N1nja]

3300 mah rumor is probably correct. I've had no problem with all day battery life out of prior notes, actually battery life has improved a lot without battery capacity going up.

Note 2 3100
Note 3 3200
Note 4 3220
Note 5 3000

So I'm sure 3300 will be fine with all the other enhancements to battery life.

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

3300 mah rumor is probably correct. I've had no problem with all day battery life out of prior notes, actually battery life has improved a lot without battery capacity going up.

Note 2 3100
Note 3 3200
Note 4 3220
Note 5 3000

So I'm sure 3300 will be fine with all the other enhancements to battery life.

I hear very few complaints about battery life on the current flagships, all of which sport battery between 3000-3500.

I'm just not worried about it.

 

[notefreak]

You guys are forgetting that the screen will be bigger than s8+ and the battery smaller. I doubt they will somehow make the device more battery efficient. This is a chickening out move because of Note7. It will be a 1000€ half brick if battery is this bad. Mark my words, people will be peed.

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

You guys are forgetting that the screen will be bigger than s8+ and the battery smaller. I doubt they will somehow make the device more battery efficient. This is a chickening out move because of Note7. It will be a 1000€ half brick if battery is this bad. Mark my words, people will be peed.

Screen will be bigger, big deal. Everyone complained about the battery sizes for the S8 was announced. Battery life has been great.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I really think a 3300 battery and a more efficient SoC, this device will get through a day on a charge easily.

 

[jlost]

Re: I think it will have a 4000 battery

Samsung have released many new phones since the note 7 most with big batteries , the battery problems are behind them now. I think they are leaking news about a small battery so we are delighted when it comes out and buy the note 8in millions . Further confirmation look at many of the so called flagships that have come out from other companies they often get negative reviews because of the small batteries usually under 3500.
With a massive screen, a pen and aimed at power users it must last a full day... Also it will be compared to the forthcoming iPhone which for sure will have Stella battery life... It would be commercial suicide if it doesn't last all day. I don't believe the new processor will be able to achieve this by itself. But maybe this is wishful thinking....?

Suicide? Hahaha people will buy it. You know it, we all know it.

 

[Nakrohtap]

Last I checked, phones don't advertise battery size in their ads, just software features, camera and screen size mainly. They don't advertise it because it isn't really an issue for the most part. Would it really change anyone's habits if they their phone was capable of an extra 45 minutes of SOT?