Alas, running multiple
battery life tests shows little has changed.
Our official
battery life test showed that it burned through 14 % of its battery running a looped 90 minute HD video, leaving us with 86 % left.
Extended
battery life tests showed that the duo outpaced top - notch smartphones like the iPhone 7, OnePlus 3T, LG G6, and more.
Not exact matches
The
battery life may well be on the box but
tests have
shown that there's often a big difference between what's claimed and the reality.
It saw no significant effect on cognition, but two different
batteries of
tests assessing daily
living skills both
showed significant improvement.
The Archos 5 offers a 7 hour
battery life; and as
testing shows, the Archos 5 Internet tablet with Android, with the right display and volume settings, can last up more than 6 hours.
Some
tests have also
shown dark themes to save
battery life — that's helpful for an app like YouTube where users are spending more than an hour per day watching videos on mobile devices.
In images of recent
test devices, the left side
shows the time while the area on the right side of the notch displays cellular and Wi - Fi connectivity and remaining
battery life.
We haven't been able to fully
test the Razr HD's 2,530 mAh
battery yet, but our initial hands - on
shows that
battery life is long, but perhaps not as long as Motorola claims.
Some
tests have also
shown dark modes to save on
battery life.
Sony's Xperia Z3 Compact, a major competitor of the Galaxy Alpha in Europe, is being touted as having two - day
battery life, and early
tests have
shown that's no exaggeration.
Testing by Ars Technica, for example,
showed nearly equal
battery life between an iPhone with a TSMC chip and an iPhone with a Samsung chip under identical conditions.
Our
testing and customer data
show the actual
battery life of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, even taking into account variable component differences, vary within just 2 - 3 % of each other.
The iPhone 6s has a slightly smaller
battery than the iPhone 6, and it
showed ever - so - slightly less
battery life on our admittedly brutal LTE streaming
test: 4 hours, 21 minutes, as compared with 4 hours, 33 minutes on the iPhone 6.
Sony is promising 2 days
battery life on this phone, and our initial
tests show it's not a far fetched claim at all.
Our
battery test, run with displays always on and fixed at 200 nits,
showed both phones to have similar excellent
battery life.
Although our
battery tests have
shown that the S8's
battery life is about a half hour shorter than that of the S8 +, I want those additional minutes.
Opera's own
tests showed that compared with Microsoft Edge, its browser squeezed 22 percent more
battery life out of a Windows 10 - powered laptop with the Opera native ad blocker and power saver enabled.
While it's unclear where that information came from, it doesn't come anywhere close to matching our own
battery life tests, which
showed the Google Pixel 2 XL offering 12 hours of
battery life.
A recent
test of Android L compared to Android KitKat, on the same phone,
showed an extra 36 per cent of
battery life.
While they don't offer a specific number of hours longer the phone is supposed to last, our
testing shows a definite improvement in
battery life throughout the day.