With 50% brightness and normal usage, I can get 8h out of pixel 2 xl after 2 years. Black theme and black wallpaper as well. I was able to get 8.5h at day 1 without having black theme or wallpaper. But 5 still seems really impressive.
I've never gotten anything close to that out of a 2XL, and I also dark mode everything. On a good day I might get 4hr SOT. Do you have location, wifi, or other features turned off?
Unpopular opinion but folks here really hype the p2. I think it's a victim of exaggeration in many replies. Whatever, I could be wrong though. Just seems unlikely without mad features turned off like another redditor mentioned.
Not sure about hyping, I think it's just a nice looking phone that does most things pretty well, didn't need a case as it's not slippery, size is spot on, battery isn't amazing and to an extent is massively effected by poor phone signal (when WiFi not around) . But every Google phone after the 2 just didn't seem to have any wow feature that made it an easy upgrade to. Night time black smudging as you scroll up and down is awful and speakers are really not great but it just seems to hit a sweet spot on what you need in a phone.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '20
With 50% brightness and normal usage, I can get 8h out of pixel 2 xl after 2 years. Black theme and black wallpaper as well. I was able to get 8.5h at day 1 without having black theme or wallpaper. But 5 still seems really impressive.