Apple Battery Life Estimates
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Posted on 10/02/2016 5:13:13 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan
Consumer group Which? has conducted a series of battery life tests on the latest smartphones, and the news is not good for the iPhone 7. Pitted against the Samsung Galaxy S7, HTC 10 and LG G5, Apple's latest handset came in last place... and by some distance.
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But whatever efficiency optimization Apple has baked into iOS 10, it seems they are not enough to make up for the measly 1,960mAh battery it decided to put in the case.
IPhone 6 here, was just fine until the new OS came out.
Then again, maybe I will wait 18 months and trade up to the Apple 7 plus. Of course that will be after the 8 is already on the market. By that time I will know what the news is about the 7 plus.
What, no Droid Turbo comparisons that smack the HTC to shame??
HTC is 27 hours versus 47 hours for the Droid Turbo.
Standby time of the Turbo is also twice as much.
Wasn’t in the test. Would expect it to clean up though, with nearly 4000 mAh battery capacity (twice that of the iPhone 7).
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I won't buy any iPhones either, but it has nothing to do with battery life. I don't like Apple. I have had several versions of Samsung Galaxy's (S6 for now) and I love the features, I love the battery life. Apple sucks. But don't forget to drill a hole in the case for you earphones if you have an i7... :)
FYI - the listed talk time and Internet use listed on the Apple image are within 10% of the actual measured time from Watch? Which should lend credence to their results...
Unfair fight. The HTC lasts much longer because the screen sucks. The Galaxy S7 has the best screen on the market,a battery-challenging OLED, and still bests the iPhone 7. Impressive. S7 remains the best phone on Earth right now
That’s because the phone is constantly telling the Feds what you’re up to!
I have been holding off from the latest iPhone update 10. Have heard people are not too happy with it.
My Microsoft Lumia 950XL has a 3340 mAh battery and the same resolution (1440 x 2560). My previous phone was the Lumia 1520 and it had a 3400 mAh battery with a 1080 x 1920 resolution.
Now as far as batter life goes I think my Lumia 950XL is held back by the OS not being as optimized as it can be, but at the very least my battery is easily removable and replaceable.
Apple’s obsession with making their phones thinner has forced them to put smaller batteries in. While they have an advantage of control over hardware and software, their optimizations in the OS could be better. They are also trying to force more features into the OS so it’s a tug-of-war as to new features vs. battery life.
Yeah sometimes I wish you could go back to the old one! Extra battery and data use are my complaints. My kid told me there are a couple settings that automatically refresh and update apps that the new OS turns on, you have to manually turn them back off. I just did it today so I’ll see..
Oh and they replaced the revolver text message image with a squirt gun..I guess to stop gun violence.??
I carry my iPhone 5c around with me constantly, and use it throughout the day and evening for calls and texts, checking weather, and occasional FReeping.
I have chargers at home, work, and in my car. When I'm not using the phone for more than a few minutes, I put it on a charger. My battery never gets below about 60%.
If I had a phone with, say, twice the "battery life", it wouldn't get below 80%. THAT's NO NET EFFECT, NO BENEFIT TO ME.
Why in heavens name would I ever let the battery run flat dead??? What are these people doing, talking non-stop, in an environment where they have no access to a charger for 10 hours at a time? Have they no work, no school, no car, no life?
Okay then. Except for the few people whose jobs demand they be on the phone constantly -AND- no access to a charger (that's less than 10% of the user base, I'd guess), it should be a no-brainer.
I think this whole battery life "issue" is crap. It's completely avoidable for 90% of the users.
LESSON: If you never have to turn your amp up past '9', it doesn't matter whether the top end is '10' or '11'.
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As long as you r voting for trump .. I don’t care if you worship apple
This guy was really mad! Smashed many iPhones.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/30/13120000/apple-store-france-iphones-macs-smashed-video
My point, which you obviously ignored, is the experienced labs have always confirmed Apple's announced battery lives and normally their tests exceed them.
My new iPhone 7 plus finished Friday, after using it as a WIFI hotspot router with my MacBook for about four hours as my girlfriend drove down to Southern California in her Corvette with me riding along, surfing FR and other conservative websites, with 85% battery left when I put it back on charge! That's after using it for a full day of work calls. Not bad at all.
My year old iPhone 6S, before I traded it in, would do the same but have only 45% battery left.
The battery life of the other phones is pretty impressive, but the fact that I can “only” talk for 11:52 on a charge or surf the ‘Net for 10:15 isn’t really an impediment to buying an iPhone.
Since they were using their own “phone network simulator” and signal strength wasn’t an issue, why did they choose to test on 3G and not LTE?
No, I understood your point, you’re choosing to ignore the fact that these results are right-in-line with the Apple published times.
Perhaps the iPhone is NOT the long-life battery king it’s always claimed to be? Perhaps phones of the same size have more battery life? Physics is physics, and when you give up 35% of your battery capacity, that is extremely difficult to gain back by just efficiency of operation.
My battery life is way low since I upgraded my 6+ to iOS 10.
It used to last until dinner, now it routinely dies around 2 or 3 o’clock.
It’s frustrating having to always carry a battery backup around.
Ed
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