iPhone Air is being panned for “terrible” battery life, but it’s 20% better than last year’s iPhone 16, a phone lauded for solid battery

iPhone 16: 22 hours of video playback from a 3561mAh battery

iPhone Air: 27 hours of video from a 3149mAh battery

I think apple screwed up the messaging by hiding the actual battery life, and only quoting battery life with the MagSafe battery pack. But, the base battery life is good! It’s of course the worst of the line, but it’s a ~20% improvement of last years’ base phone, which reviewers never complained had poor battery.

I wish tech pundits and journalists would actually check the specs before making judgements about the battery life…

EDIT: if I could rewrite the title of this post, it would be “Tech journalists are saying with certainty that the Air will have terrible battery life, but its specs quote 20% better battery than the iPhone 16’s”.