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superkloton said:

Rayz2016 said:

Mmm. I would still say that thing adds bulk. 

Well the article says "flush with the walls" so the picture might not show the actual product since that is clearly not in-wall but very bulky indeed. Wouldn’t wanna have that in my home.

It clearly says the second picture is of their older model. The new one mounts inside the wall and is flush.

Samsung: Please hire this designer; He/She is brilliant! 

An unanswered question is: Does Apple slow down older phones regardless of the wear level of the battery in that phone? To add a data point, I did a test on my iPhone 6s. The battery shows 18% wear level, so it is marginal, but Apple would consider it a pass. When the phone had about 75% battery charge, I checked the CPU clock and it was at approx. 1800 MHz. I ran Geekbench 4 and I got a single core result of 2532. All as expected. A few minutes later the battery charge dropped to 63%. So, I checked the CPU clock: it dropped to 911MHz. I re-ran Geekbench and got a single-core score of 1452. So, I can only conclude that Apple may be throttling the speed based on the remaining charge of older phones regardless of the wear level of the battery. I would be curious to compare these results with someone who had installed a brand new battery in their older phone. Is it the wear level or simply the remaining charge that triggers the throttling? If it is the latter, then why are they throttling only older phones and not the new ones? That becomes supportive of the conspiracy theory that they slow down older phones to cajole us to upgrade. A counter point might be that older batteries at the same remaining charge as new batteries output less power and thus trigger the throttling.