We feel strongly that real
world battery testing is more important, but the rundown test gives us a more objective metric to factor in.
That still brought it significantly under the XPS 13 though, which is why it falls behind in real -
world battery tests.
Not exact matches
Less than a month after Tesla unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia, the
world's largest lithium - ion
battery is already being put to the
test.
Located beneath the floor, the 27kWh, air - cooled, 200 watt - hour / kg
battery is expected to yield a range of approximately 80 - 100 miles of real -
world driving on a full charge, with internal
testing and evaluation results exceeding 100 miles in some instances.
Original BMW
Batteries are designed and tested to deliver a longer service life than conventional batteries ready to keep up with the extra power demands of today's wirele
Batteries are designed and
tested to deliver a longer service life than conventional
batteries ready to keep up with the extra power demands of today's wirele
batteries ready to keep up with the extra power demands of today's wireless
world.
The «real
world» EPA driving evaluation
test incorporates
battery - sapping segments of aggressive driving and operating the vehicle in higher ambient temperatures with the car's air conditioning on.
In another real -
world test, the Droid RAZR's
battery was down to 40 percent after an hour of mobile hotspot usage.
Without a complete
test, it's hard to tell what the real -
world usage is going to be as we need to
test the actual performance as well, but we recommend to keep an eye on that * very * shiny screen and on the 3 - 4 hrs (relatively short)
battery life.
Macworld's
battery life
tests confirmed this real -
world usage impression; there, the 32 GB iPad with AT&T 3G lasted 504 minutes, just 14 minutes longer than a 16 GB iPad 1 with AT&T 3G.
In all of our
tests and real
world outings, having Wifi on and connected to a Wifi network was amazing for
battery life.
As for the
battery life, Amazon is promising a huge six weeks of reading between charges, but we'll have to wait for some real -
world tests to see if that holds up.
Sure, by running a
battery of
tests the minute gains of one sensor over another can be worked out, but does those differences really matter if you don't actually notice them in real -
world use?
A growing
battery of years - long field
tests have found that real -
world, field - relevant exposures have no observable effects on bee colonies.
My point was that I'm guessing a lot more than 440ppm is locked in - I'm not sure how This David Mills character came up with his numbers so I am of course merely guessing / being potentially paranoid... the IPCC reports are known to be conservative by nature for instance and there was an article just recently on Sterling Engines being
tested in South Africa over the last 4 years... combining this with the new phenomenons of formula - e racing and possibly Virgin competing with Tesla for the electric car market and Tesla itself saying it may just go into producing
batteries the
world does seem to be displaying something of a turn!
Via Planet Ark: «Daimler - Chrysler said it would produce a «
test - fleet» of up to 20 plug - in hybrid versions of its 2007 Dodge Sprinter in order to evaluate the performance of the electric vehicles in real -
world driving conditions... DaimlerChrysler said it would combine the rechargeable
battery on the Dodge Sprinter with a diesel engine for a bigger gain in fuel economy, saying that would be the first real -
world test of that technology.»
It's the latest project globally to pair wind power with
batteries — just a couple of days ago BP announced a tie - up with Tesla on a pilot project in the US and Siemens Gamesa provided the wind turbines charging Batwind, a project in Scotland
testing the real -
world performance of
batteries paired with the
world's first floating wind farm.
Because the Axon M has better
battery life on paper, we're going to have to conduct more
tests to see how it goes in real -
world use.
In real -
world (as constant as possible)
testing, including watching streams from YouTube and BBC iPlayer and listening to high quality streamed music from Tidal and Apple Music over cellular, we found we were skipping through around 10 percent of
battery per hour.
One of the longest - lasting notebooks in the
world with its extended
battery installed, Lenovo's ThinkPad T470 lasted an amazing 17 hours and 25 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous surfing over Wi
battery installed, Lenovo's ThinkPad T470 lasted an amazing 17 hours and 25 minutes on the Laptop Mag
Battery Test (continuous surfing over Wi
Battery Test (continuous surfing over Wi - Fi).
To find out which smartphone is the true performance champ, we went beyond the usual benchmarks and put each phone through a
battery of real -
world tests.
In real -
world testing, the phone lasted most of the day on moderate to heavy use on its full - charge of its meaty 3,060 - mAh
battery.
Last year, for example, the Note5 managed to outperform the firmly - average OnePlus 2 in both theoretical / benchmark
battery tests as well as real -
world usage, in great part due to the highly - efficient Exynos 7420 and last - gen AMOLED panel.
Certain manufactured lab
tests which run the processors with a continuous heavy workload until the
battery depletes are not representative of real -
world usage, since they spend an unrealistic amount of time at the highest CPU performance state.
Following the news, several YouTubers have begun creating videos to compare the dual sourced chips in both
battery - straining
tests and basic real -
world scenarios.In the first video, Austin Evans compared identical models of the iPhone 6s — one with the Samsung chip and one with the TSMC chip — and calibrated their screens so they had the exact same brightness.
Real -
world tests appear to show that removing Facebook and Facebook Messenger will give the
battery of Android devices a significant boost.
The two
tests that run in
Battery Eater Pro utility are the Reader's
test which simulates real -
world reading scenario, while the Classic
test uses OpenGL rendering to simulate heavy usage such as gaming.
iPhone 6s units with a TSMC A9 processor score two hours» better
battery life over those with Samsung chips in GeekBench
test scores, but real -
world gains of the «good» chip might be much less significant.
The two
tests run in
Battery Eater Pro utility are the Reader's
test which simulates real -
world reading scenario, while the Classic
test uses OpenGL rendering to simulate heavy usage such as gaming.
With his technical knowledge and passion for
testing, Avram developed many of our real -
world benchmarks, including the
battery test.
We didn't have time for proper
battery tests, so the real
world difference in longevity remains to be discussed.
The result is, I hope, a very real -
world test of the Series 2's new abilities, fitness capability, and
battery life.
Based on the time taken in the real
world test, we calculated the charge rate for each device, so you can see a relative comparison per unit of
battery capacity, kind of like miles per gallon for your car.
Apple does not disclose the specs for its phone's
battery, although one real -
world test shows the smaller iPhone 6s, which lasts eight hours, is much better than the iPhone 6s Plus.
Jabra's specs state this is up to 5 hours of «talk time,» which if true, is longer than the 2 hours of talk time and 5 hours of listening time AirPods offer, but only a real
world -
test will be able to truly determine how accurate the
battery life claim is.
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.
The real
world battery performance of both devices is similar from our
testing.
It's worth noting that the new Pro's real -
world battery life is nowhere near Microsoft's claim of 13.5 hours, but that's based on a looping video
test that doesn't reflect how anyone actually uses their computers.
Without getting scientific and using different
battery tests (that don't represent real -
world use), the Honor 6X has lasted us about a day and a half to two days, repeatedly.