Despite disappointing iPhone 15 Pro Max battery capacity rumor, all is not lost. Here’s why!

X tipster Majin Bu has a more disappointing forecast for the iPhone 15 Pro Max‘s battery capacity

One of the reasons why we could see such a small hike in battery capacity for the upcoming top-of-the-line iPhone is because the iPhone 15 Pro Max will be the first iOS handset to sport a periscope lens. Space that might be used for a larger battery increase needs to be used for the photography feature. The periscope lens folds inside the phone’s body and uses prisms to bounce light from the lens opening to the image sensor. The result is an increase in the camera’s focal length beyond what could be expected due to the size limitations of a smartphone. 

With the periscope lens, the iPhone 15 Pro Max should see an increase from 3x optical zoom on the iPhone 14 Pro Max to 6x optical zoom on the upcoming model.

Despite the smaller increase in battery capacity, there is a good reason to expect longer battery life on the 15 Pro Max

Even with the disappointing hike in battery capacity for the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Majin Bu says to expect longer battery life for the device thanks to the 3nm process node being used to produce the A17 Bionic chipset being used to power the device. The smaller the process node, the smaller a chip’s feature size is. This results in smaller transistors allowing more to fit inside the cozy confines of a chip. The more transistors inside a chip, the more powerful and energy-efficient it becomes.

Last year, the 4nm A16 Bionic was used to power the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. This chip was said to carry nearly 16 billion transistors each. And that brng us tot he A17-Bionic which will be found inside the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The only smartphone application processor to be made this year using the 3nm process node, we could see an increase in the chip’s transistor count to18 billion-20 billion.