Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care much more about battery life - 9to5Mac

2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones

2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones

2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras

2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI

Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.

Literally just give us phones that can do what they could do 10 years ago, with modern batteries.

It feels like yesterday some guy was arguing against me here on Lemmy about my personal choice of wanting a longer battery life.

WELL LOOK AT ME NOW BRO

People have been asking for thicker phones with more battery for years. Wth

I think the battery system that's best for everyone would be user-replaceable batteries. That way you can have an extra battery on hand to swap in as needed, or even extra-capacity batteries that make your phone a little thicker for people who are okay with that.

Those of us who do actually prefer thinner, lighter phones can still have them (maybe with a slight increase in thickness to accommodate the attachment mechanisms). Plus bigger batteries are a huge waste of resources if the capacity isn't going to be used.

When I replaced my 5 year old phone the only two benefits I saw was OLED screen (never going without again) and the battery life going from maybe a day to like 40 hours

I like AI and my phone to be separate. Chatgpt is just an app, it shouldn't be a core feature

Oh wow shocking, people actually cared more about usability than trashy feature? That's unheard of

I don't get what those companies try to achieve by automating writing (by spewing statistically probable prose), reading (by badly summarizing text cobbled from excerpts without the ability to make any sense of it), art, photography, music, all standardized to the lowest common denominator.

I'm not buying a new device that will try to impose any of this hype. For now, Apple has decided to "punish" the users in the European Union by holding the Apple Intelligence features hostage. FINE BY ME!

edit: typo/phrasing

Do people here actually use AI? And if so…for what?

How about making a phone that's a whole millimeter thicker just to make the glass thick and strong enough that it won't break if you drop it?

Great idea! Unless of course the replacement of parts and broken phones is a core part of the business model.

Can we please stop calling LLMs artificial intelligence?

It would be mice to have better battery life.

2008 and onwards.

Edit: was so confused about the answers til I noticed the error :-p

I barely use my phone as anything more than a glorified pager. I don't need fucking AI.

Give me a phone that’s 1.5 cm thick (before the camera bump) and lasts two days and I’ll buy fucking 10 of them.

JUST STOP. MAKING. THEM. THINNER.

No! I don't care about battery! I want to become more dependent on advertising companies to arrange my daily life!

yeah but you can't set inflate your stock value based on hype about battery life.

people forget that these features aren't for users. it's for idiots who invest in ridiculous shit hoping it to be the next big thing.

Smartphone buyers care more about that thing that they've been begging for, for years? You don't say... And mobile phone manufacturers are again and still going to ignore what people actually want in favor of expensive and non functional vaporware, like they always do?

You don't say!

I just bought two brand new three year old phones to replace the identical broken ones we currently have because the current models have less functionality for more than we paid for these.

To get the same functionality cost twice as much.

And we still get three years warranty..

They're pushing AI so hard but most people just see it as a gimmicky thing. The only people who care are the investors.

The features customers actually want vs what the shareholders tell them they want.

I really hope the AI hype dies off

I totally forgot it even had that. The people I talk to only talk about the new side button.

I still would take an extra mm for more battery life. At this point it's no difference if it's a bit thinner.

Also I want my OS to be an actual OS with root access. I want Linux in particular.

"The only thing we bothered changing in the new model is we added a robot that hoovers even more of your data and then lies to you confidently!"

Fuck Siri with ChatGPT. I just want third party app notifications to actually play a sound and vibrate on my watch again. I really hope the next iOS update will fix that. I'm not the only one with this issue currently.

Give me back my physical keyboard, and I'll be happy alongside better battery life (or removable batteries).

The last thing I want is a phone I can mistake for a table mat when I'm tired, which I feel is how phones are going. What's the new average screen size now? 27" or is that next year's model?

I just got a 16 Pro. I still have my 7 Plus. Form factor of 7 plus is still the best of any of the iPhones, for my money. It feels THE best in-hand.

I’m staying on iOS 18.0.1 without the AI Apple crap

Prefer no AI, require high battery life

AR needs to kill the smartphone screen soon. Make my phone a keyboard and an external processor for my wearables.

yeah gewgull added the gemini bullshit to their sms app with the last update. disabled as first act

Welcome to the Luddite convention here.

Insanely true, I didn't give a shit about 90% of the features on my new phone once my old one broke down and I got a Pixel 8, but I was delighted to go from a worn-out 12 hour battery life to a 64 hour battery life. I would actively like to uninstall any sort of current AI function from my phone if it could increase my battery longevity by even 1%.

Also: ew, Apple.

Edit: Really annoyed it doesn't have a headphone jack though

@Alphane_Moon someone wanna tell them that AI can be used to increase battery life? 😂