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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
1. The_President ◴[19 Jun 25 14:58 UTC] No.44319278[source]▶
I have an iPhone 8 still in service and compared to an equally old Android device, the Android (some kind of Motorola eX series low end phone) runs circles around the iPhone. Even playing background video or audio streamed from wifi and output over bluetooth with the screen off, the Android will burn 15% in an hour while the iPhone will burn over 60%. Both are the same age but the iPhone feels subjectively obselete while the low end Motorola feels like a mid-2010s computer. Even for it's age the Android will last two weeks in Airplane mode.
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2. martey ◴[19 Jun 25 19:01 UTC] No.44321495[source]▶
This just suggests that the battery in your iPhone 8 is more degraded than your low end Motorola. This could easily occur if you have used the iPhone more over its lifetime and isn't a good measure of relative performance.