Prior to the expected September release date of the iPhone 5, images of more pieces and specs have been leaked.
This time the image is of the iPhone battery.
The battery is rated at 140 mAh which is up by only 10 mAh from the battery found in Apple's iPhone 4S. The iPhone 5 is rumored to have the battery-draining 4G LTE. The new handheld from Apple is rumored to have a four-inch screen which will only eat into handheld's battery life, but it is LTE 4G in particular that has the ability to drain a fully charged battery in no time.
Samsung Galaxy S3 supports LTE for AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. Its battery is rated 2100 mAh, which is 50 percent more than what iPhone intends to bring in and its battery life is not measured in days but hours.
But Apple could be also working on tweaks to iPhone 5 or iOS 6 so as to extend the battery to match its features.
"Perhaps Apple's tweaked dual-core system on a chip for this new iPhone is efficient enough to run LTE with [out] the need for a much larger battery," said Marc Gurman of the blog 9to5 Mac. "We also speculate that Apple may indeed be moving ahead with latest version of the Qualcomm Gobi chips that has a smaller battery draw than previous versions."
If the leaked photos are genuine, the voltage capacity for the handheld has been upped from 3.7 V to 3.8V, other handhelds come with 3.7 V. It has also increased its watt-hours rating with 5.45 watt-hours compared to 5.25 watt-hours ratings of the iPhone 4S.
"This might just be an upgraded battery for another iPhone or a scrapped battery entirely," Gurman of 9to5Mac said.
So there is a possibility that the leaked photos might not be of the iPhone 5 battery since iPad and MacBook Air have long battery life.
On Sunday, iFixYouri Professional iPhone Repair posted the leaked out photos of the supposed motherboard. The photos indicate the SIM card slot to be smaller, more in the lines of Micro-SIM-standard being used in iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
Check out photos of the possible iPhone 5 battery here.
