Lithium Polymer Battery???

Hello everyone,

can anybody tell me why the last iPhone 4 commercial mentions a Li-Polymer battery?
When I look at the current tech specs, it's still saying Li-Ion battery.
When will the polymer battery be available? Did Apple give any information about that?

iPhone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Jan 5, 2011 10:08 AM

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Jan 6, 2011 10:02 AM in response to OliverLovesIt

OliverLovesIt wrote:
But what about Apple's "do this longer, do that longer"?
There has to be a difference. Did you watch that commercial here on the website?


The difference is the battery is MUCH larger in the iP4 vs the 3GS. It's mostly battery inside. Ok, that's not true, but consider the battery rating:

3GS - 1219mah
4 - 1420mah

(google for mah iphone 3gs, mah iphone 4, and you'll find sites where people open up the phones and look at the batteries... it's fun, and educational)

Adding 15% more battery is going to give you, well, 15% more time. Coupled with lower power chips (like the CPU) in the iP4, and you get even more time.

Jan 26, 2011 10:04 AM in response to OliverLovesIt

Yes, it is a commercial on apple.com.
It also says you can "even facetime longer", and since there was no facetime on 3G(s) I doubt that it has something to do with the bigger battery.

Li-Polymer was mentioned directly in that ad.
Also, the tech specs of the MacBooks say "Li-Polymer" as battery while the iPhone tech specs say "Li-Ion"...

Kinda weird

Feb 27, 2011 11:56 AM in response to OliverLovesIt

One of my experience may be helpful to those who have iPhone or iPod.

For about a week the battery performance of my iphone4 were dramatically decreased.I found it hard, even without using it, or otherwise using it as soon as possible to get to evening.
I tried to use App BatteryDoctor type, but maybe things have gotten worse.

I did a firmware restore, even considering the iPhone as New, that is, installing everything from scratch without using the backup and nothing to do:
The battery drops of 10% per hour without using it simply in standby.

Last attempt
Reset DFU

Here's the amazing result:
17 hours have passed since last charge and.....drum roll...the iphone is 90% after sailing, recorded the sermon, etc..etc..
After 24 hours 84%.

I'd like to know why, and wherefore the software so it affects battery life.But around the Internet I found nothing of science, but only assumptions that often are not in heaven or on earth.

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