You know how the saying goes – everything is a trade-off. So when you want to make the thinnest phone possible, something has to give. Or, in the case of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Air, Multiple items. The rumored single rear camera is a compromise in the name of slimness, and today there’s another revelation: battery capacity.
But the iPhone isn’t alone in this, the Galaxy S25 Slim might pack more cameras but it won’t be the battery life king, that’s for sure. According to the digital chat station on Weibo, both of these devices will have batteries between 3,000 mAh and 4,000 mAh, give or take.
It’s quite disappointing, to say the least, but it’s not surprising. Unlike their Chinese competitors, none of these companies have started using the new silicon-carbon tech that enables higher battery densities, and we haven’t even heard rumors that they might in the future.
So in a world where Chinese mid-rangers are soon going to sport 7,500 mAh cells, the more expensive iPhone 17 Air and Galaxy S25 Slim will have to come up short.
DCS further states that these slim devices will test heat dissipation and battery life, and performance-wise if things don’t look as good as the previous ones we managed to score with the Galaxy S25 Slim prototype in Geekbench recently.
The good news is that many Chinese smartphone makers are apparently planning to launch such models of their own, and all of these will have at least a 5,000 mAh battery, as they should.
Source (in Chinese)
