We haven't had it long enough to do a complete battery rundown test on it, but in practice, we believe you'll get
average tablet battery life out of it: between 7 and 9 hours, depending on what you're up to.
The tablet's battery lasted 10 hours and 58 minutes in our battery test, which trumps the Fire 7's 6:53 time and beats
the average tablet battery span of 8:58.
Not exact matches
The slate lasted 8 hours and 40 minutes on the Laptop Mag
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), which is a bit longer than the 8:20
tablet average.
On the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing over Wi - Fi), the ChildPad lasted 4 hours and 53 minutes, which is 2 hours less than the
average Android
tablet, but is an hour and half longer than the Kurio 7.
During the LAPTOP
Battery Test (continuous web - surfing over 4G), the Springboard lasted 5 hours and 10 minutes, about an hour and a half less than the
tablet average.
When we ran the
battery test over Wi - Fi, the Asus chugged along for 9 hours and 17 minutes, which is longer than the times of the Wi - Fi - only Predator 8 (5:36) and the
average tablet (6:53).
The Fire Kids Edition (6:42) lasted more than an hour longer, and the
average tablet (9:04) has even more
battery life.
So that's a
battery life above
average for a
tablet these days.
On the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the Kobo Vox lasted just 4 hours and 40 minutes, about two hours less than the Android
tablet average.
This
tablet too has a good
battery life, at an
average of well over 11 hours, and it weighs just 510 grams, which makes it the second lightest 10.1 - inch Android
tablet.
The
average battery life of the Fire HD 8 is 8 hours, while it has a thickness of 7.7 mm and a weight of 311 grams, which makes it one of the lighter 8 - inch
tablets.
Asus didn't disappoint with the 15Wh
battery capacity either, since the
battery life is 11.5 hours long on
average, which separates it from the budget
tablets.
I've found the
average battery life of the
tablet a bit frustrating as it is advertised as 8 hours, although I found it to be closer to 6 hours.
Its colorful 8 - inch display is brighter than the
average tablet and it's got enough
battery life to last more than 10 hours on a single charge.
That's short of Microsoft's claimed 10 hours of
battery life, but far better than the
tablet category
average of 7:17, not to mention the Surface RT's time of 7:43.
The total weight is 615 gram, so the extra
battery and kickstand does add about 70 gram in weight over the
average 550 gram weight of 10 - inch Android
tablets in Q1 2014.
Bottom Line: The quality of its aluminum chassis, crisp IPS display, and better - than -
average battery life make the T - Mobile Springboard 4G a solid small - screen
tablet choice for those looking for cellular internet, but it is hard to justify the cost when compared with higher - end or budget
tablets.
The quality of its aluminum chassis, crisp IPS display, and better - than -
average battery life make the T - Mobile Springboard 4G a solid small - screen
tablet choice for those looking for cellular internet, but it is hard to justify the cost when compared with higher - end or budget
tablets.
The slate lasted 7 hours and 35 minutes on the Laptop Mag
Battery Test (constant Web surfing at 150 nits of brightness), which is better than the Fire Kids (6:42) and the Xtreme 2 (5:23), but shorter than the
average tablet (9:05).
On the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the
tablet lasted 8 hours and 49 minutes, almost two hours longer than the category
average of 7:06.
Although the
battery life is a bit below
average, overall this
tablet is an excellent value.
The
average battery life for a
tablet is 9:02.
After testing the
tablet by looping a local 720p video in Airplane Mode at medium brightness, the Yoga Tab 3
averaged 13.8 hours of
battery life.
However, if the idea of rooting an Android device doesn't bring sweat to your forehead, you could get around the bloatware annoyance, but you'd still be left with a
tablet that has lower than
average battery life.
On the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the Note 10.1's 7000 mAh battery lasted 9 hours and 37 minutes, which is about 20 minutes less than the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but more than two hours longer than the tablet average
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the Note 10.1's 7000 mAh
battery lasted 9 hours and 37 minutes, which is about 20 minutes less than the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but more than two hours longer than the tablet average
battery lasted 9 hours and 37 minutes, which is about 20 minutes less than the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but more than two hours longer than the
tablet average (6:52).
Its 4,960 - mAh
battery lasted 8 hours and 25 minutes, more than the
average tablet (7:42) and the Venue 8 Pro (8:18).
On the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the Xperia
Tablet S lasted a strong 7 hours and 54 minutes, about an hour longer than the category
average, and better than the ASUS TF700 (7:39) and the TF300 in Balanced mode (7:11).
The kid - friendly Kurio 7s
tablet is packed full of educational apps, but suffers from a poor display and below -
average battery life.
Bottom Line: The Lenovo Tab 4 8 is an affordable Android
tablet with a long - lasting
battery and decent performance for
average multimedia use.
While our LAPTOP
Battery Test (web surfing via 4G) didn't run to completion, it lasted 8 hours and 20 minutes with 25 percent left; extrapolating the results gave us an impressive estimated runtime of 10:35, well above the 6:48 category
average for
tablets..
Between the
tablet's size and and projected
battery life, it isn't as portable as the
average tablet, but it is more portable than say, a desktop set up.
Bottom Line: The Toshiba Thrive 7 is an
average tablet with a great screen, but its poor
battery life and lack of compelling features make it hard to justify choosing it over some of the better 7 - inch
tablets out there.
Heavy and relatively thick design; Keyboard flexes; Short
battery life in
tablet mode; Below -
average performance
The Toshiba Thrive 7 is an
average tablet with a great screen, but its poor
battery life and lack of compelling features make it hard to justify choosing it over some of the better 7 - inch
tablets out there.
This
tablet lasted 7 hours and 40 minutes on the LAPTOP
Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), which is a few minutes longer than the Tab 3 10 - inch (7:32) and about half an hour longer than the category
average.
This is well below the 7:06
tablet category average and is much lower than the battery life on both the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (8:57) and the Sony Xperia Tablet Z (
tablet category
average and is much lower than the
battery life on both the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (8:57) and the Sony Xperia
Tablet Z (
Tablet Z (9:51).
That's the longest
battery life of any
tablet we've tested without a dock, and it crushed the Lenovo A10 (8:34), Toshiba Excite Pure (7:40) and
tablet average (8:20).
This is a Windows 8.1 RT
tablet at 10.6 - inches, with 1920 x 1080 Full HD display, a quad - core 1.7 GHz Tegra 4 processor, 2 GB of RAM, an
average of 12 hours
battery life, a complete range of ports and senors, coupled with a 3.5 MP front camera and a 5MP rear camera.
Clovertrail isn't able to handle all the
average users» Windows 8 scenarios so unless you can be sure it can do more than 100 % of what you need, it's not a solution you should buy â $ «especially as the 11.6 - inch devices make poor (large and heavy) casual
tablets. Core - based
tablets might be a better choice for many despite the lower
battery life and heavier weight.
Toshiba claims an
average battery life of 10 hours on this
tablet, which might be possible, but I haven't tested it myself.
That runtime falls short of the
tablet category
average (7:06), and is less than the
battery life on 7 - inchers Nabi 2 (8:05) and 2013 Nexus 7 (8:26).
The Toughpad lasted only 4 hours and 37 minutes on the Laptop Mag
battery test (continuous Web surfing over Wi - Fi at 150 nits), 4 hours less than the
tablet average of 8:37.
Its LAPTOP
Battery Efficiency Rating of 31 is worse than the category
average of 19.8 (lower is better), and way behind the original X200
tablet's rating of 13.9.
The G Pad has a 4,600 mAh
battery inside it and seemed to last about the
average 10 - 11 hour lifespan we expect from a
tablet.
[13] Gizmodo indicated that the
battery life was above
average for Android
Tablets: 8 hours and 3 minutes, despite continuous Web surfing over Wi - fi.
Amazon doesn't outright say the size of the
battery the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has, instead, they tout how much
battery life the
average user can expect from the
tablet.
You're looking at 8hours
battery life for the
average tablet but some kids
tablets come armed with as much as 12hours so keep your eyes peeled.
The thickness is 9.2 mm which is pretty
average for 8 - inch Android
tablets, with a weight of 390 gram, which is decent considering the large
battery.
The 54Whr
battery lasts just under 10 hours of
average tablet use and the large
battery size didn't tip the scales as the
tablet is still under 1Kg.
When using the
tablet alone, we got an
average of seven hours, 40 minutes out of its smaller 36 watt - hour
battery.