Samsung and Apple are locked in a race to bring us the thinnest smartphones. But a serious compromise of a thin profile is an equally small battery, as we have seen with the Galaxy S25 Edge.
Apple may have a fix for this, allegedly playing a new silicone battery with the upcoming Ultra-thunder iPhone 17 Air that packs 15% more energy at the same place than the current smartphone battery.
according to a Bloomberg reportApple and Samsung battery supplier TDK has accelerated its production timeline for its new generation of silicone-anode battery. Shipments are now scheduled to begin by the end of June, a few months before its earlier window of September.
TDK CEO Noboru Sato said, “We have made good progress, and we are shipping them very soon.” “Some handset manufacturers may be able to use a new battery in a generation in their product.” He said that it will “give smartphone makers enough time to use these cells in a thin model launching this year.”
This means that the iPhone 17 Air, which is expected to be declared in September, can be the first Apple smartphone to facilitate TDK’s third recurrence of silicone-nod battery technology. Apple was rumored to adopt silicon-nod batteries for the first second generation iPhone Air, but with this new timeline, it seems that the first generation model may get those reforms in the battery life.
Chinese smartphone manufacturers have already begun to upgrade their flagship into a silicone battery, which last longer than their American contestants.
TDK’s silicon-node battery stores about 15% more energy in the same physical space as traditional graphite-based battery pack. Additional density is possible because silicon can catch more lithium ions per gram than graphite, allowing brands to squeeze long -lasting batteries in less real estate. This advancement can prove to be necessary to maintain a decent battery life in an ultra-skinned phone.
This Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s thinnest phone is one of the largest shortcomings so far. Measuring only 5.8 mm thick, it lasted 12 hours and 38 minutes at a full charge in our Galaxy S25 Edge battery tests, below the time recorded by the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The iPhone 17 is rumored to be thin at 5.5 mm with wind, Apple has cut off its work for this.
Although Apple iPhone 17 Air: Artificial Intelligence with long battery life can trick your sleeve another. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg It was previously reported that the company has the AI-operated management mode in the works for iOS 19, which “analyzes how a person uses his equipment and adjusts to the conservation of energy.” To achieve this, it is collected from users’ devices using Apple’s “battery data so that the trends should be predicted to understand and make predictions when it should reduce the power draw of some applications or features.”
When it comes to charging the iPhone 17 Air, between the AI-operated battery optimization and the latest-and the largest silicone battery, it seems proclaimed to leave the Galaxy S25 age in the dust.
