Plutonic Rainbows

Smart Battery Case Charging Time

Today I let the phone and case drain down completely - to the point where the iPhone shut down. Using a 30w USB-C Lightning connection, these are the times it took to charge. What's really interesting is that with USB-C, the case and phone charge in parallel.

1hr

  • iPhone 85%
  • Smart Battery Case 79%

1hr 15 mins

  • iPhone 93%
  • Smart Battery Case 90%

1hr 24 mins

  • iPhone 96%
  • Smart Battery Case 96%

1hr 30 mins

  • iPhone 97%
  • Smart Battery case 98%

1hr 32 mins

  • iPhone 98%
  • Smart Battery Case 100%

1hr 40 mins

  • iPhone 100%
  • Smart Battery Case 100%

Update:

When I left the iPhone unattended all night, by 10:30 am, the battery had dropped by 10%. I think this because I had Dark Sky constantly using Location Services. I'm also going to make it a practice now to have the XS Max on Low Power Mode unless I'm away from the house and keep Bluetooth disabled. This is because I have my computer and iPad, should I need them.

SubEthaEdit

This great application is now free and open source. I recommend this if you don't want to pay almost a hundred dollars for Panic's Coda.

Tidying

Spent the best part of the day tidying away magazines.

Apple Smart Battery Case

Released this week, this case is optimised for iOS and features wireless charging and two internal batteries. It will work with an iPhone X but the software is not set up for this particular phone and the speaker grill will also not align correctly. The price is £129. There are cases available for the XS Max, XS and XR models in either Black or White. You can see what's available here.

Pythonista

Incredible iOS application I only recently discovered. Now you can write Python anywhere. The price is £9.99 - very reasonable for what's inside. Head over to the iOS store for more details.