I'm going to break the mold from traditional reviews that
run video loop tests to score battery performance.
Finally,
we ran our video loop test, which repeats a movie trailer playing from storage.
Not exact matches
The Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 had the longest
run in this
test group, playing our 720p
test video on a
loop for a whopping 15 hours and 46 minutes.
In extreme
testing running a
video on
loop it manages around the 8 - hour mark.
We
test battery life by
running a 720p
video of «Big Buck Bunny» on a
loop until the tablet conks out.
In our
looped video battery
run - down
test, the phone lasted somewhere between 8.5 hours and 9.5 hours.
Update: a second
run of the
looped video test yielded nine hours and two minutes.
That
test, when set to accelerated, uses the CPU and GPU to continuously
run looping tasks like photo editing,
video chat, web browsing, and more, until the battery hits 20 percent.
The
video loop test is typically the most forgiving benchmark we
run, and on that
test the Aspire VX 15 managed an impressive nine hours.
In our
video loop test we saw around 14 hours and 40 minutes of life, while it
ran for 4 hours in our intensive Basemark web browsing
test.
In our lab
test,
running a
looped HD
video for 90 minutes, the battery sank from 100 % to 87 %, the exact 13 % decrease we saw from last year's Plus - sized Samsung phone.
I
ran my usual
video rundown
test, in which I
loop continuous
video while the phone is connected to 4G LTE and the display set to medium.
Our final
test loops a
video from local storage, and the Yoga 720
ran for nine hours and 57 minutes.
In our
video loop tests, where we
loop a
video with the screen harmonized to 200 nits, the Nexus 9
ran for just under 10 hours, slightly better than the iPad Air 2 but not quite as good as last year's iPad Air.
Looping the same 5 - minute
video over and over on each of these handsets, we
ran the
test and then recharged the phone to get the SoT listed by the Android OS.
The machine has some of the best scores we've see in 13 - inch class notebooks, in all of our
tests —
looping video, web browsing, and our aggressive Basemark web benchmark
runs.
As you have probably guessed, our
test runs an endless
loop of
video to see how long each device lasts before the battery
runs from full to empty.
Our battery life
test involves
running a
looped HD
video for 90 minutes, during which time the phone lost 20 % of its fully charged battery.
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.
I was able to eke out more than a full day of battery with heavy use in real - world
tests, and our lab
tests proved that the Note 5 drained 14 % when
running our
looped 90 - minute HD
video.
Our battery life
tests prove that this Intel - powered device drained 23 % while
running a non-stop
video loop.
It lasted over 10 hours in our
video loop test, and over five hours in our most demanding battery
run - down.
Following the same procedure as the previous
test in April, a continuously
looping HTML5
video was streamed on identical devices
running the exact same configuration settings.