- Yesterday at 6:01 p.m.
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- Julian Russo
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This is information that Apple never reveals when presenting a new iPhone: the capacity in mAh of the battery. The only way to find out is to explore inside the iPhone to find out which battery has been added. A popular YouTuber has taken it on, unsurprisingly, it’s “not madness” compared to the 2nd-gen iPhone SE.
Only 2018mAh
The autonomy of the iPhone was never an asset against competing smartphones, however we note that for 1 year, Apple has been making efforts. This was the case with the iPhone 13 range, which gained in autonomy (mainly to accommodate the 5G modem and the ProMotion screen at 120 Hz), but also for iPhone SE 3 newly announced.
As the recent PBKReviews teardown reveals, Apple has built in a battery of 2018mAh in its 3rd generation iPhone SE, it is slightly more than the iPhone SE launched in 2020, as a reminder it had a battery of only 1821mAh.
This gesture of Apple which consists in increasing the autonomy of its last iPhone is explained by the addition of the 5G modeman extremely energy-intensive component that literally ruins the daily autonomy of smartphones.
Although this difference is not huge compared to the iPhone SE 2, customers will still feel changes in their uses. For example, with the iPhone SE 3 we find:
- 15 hours of battery life in video playback (+2 hours)
- 10 hours of battery life in video streaming playback (+2 hours)
- 50h autonomy in audio playback (+10 hours)
PBKReviews also gave a repair score for the iPhone SE 3. An expert in this field for a long time, the YouTuber assigns a 5.5/10 to this model of iPhone, Apple has not facilitated the repair like all the previous iPhones marketed so far!