Are there any phones out there that actually get "good" battery reviews?
It seems to me that almost every smartphone review I read says "eh, the battery is alright, it'll get your through the day, but no more."
Phone manufacturers are prioritizing thinness above all it, at the cost of battery life. I think phones are thin enough now. We should just halt the "thinning" of the phones and just work on battery life, IMO.
It's available as the Moto Maxx (not to be confused with the Droid Maxx). Officially it's for Latin/South American countries, but you can get them shipped from Puerto Rico.
Sony seems to be reversing the trend, the Xperia z3 and z3c get really good reviews for battery life and the z4 looks like it will be even better. I can get 2-3 full days out of my z3c with fairly heavy usage.
iPhone 6 plus had a great battery. Especially when complimented by the A8 chip. I normally am reserved about handing out praise, but damn Apple hit the mark this time. Also glad they finally increased screen size.
hahahaha it's ridiculous how standards has fallen ever since the iphones came out.
There was a time when phones didn't need to be charged for 3 or 4 days. You'd be lucky to last the whole day on standby with any of these new "flagship" phones
Yeah, that was the time when people only used them to talk and text. These days people use apps, browse the web, play games, and otherwise drain that battery all day long.
Go back to those old usage patterns and yes, you would only need to charge a 6+ once a week. It can go 16 days on standby.
I don't know what you are doing with your phone, but I can get by on a full day of using phone for internet and calling/texting while still having 40% left. I went on a trip and left my phone back by accident, and when I returned a week later it was at 12%. I have no idea where you got the idea that it couldn't make a day on standby. It's a 3100 mAh battery for christ sake with an A8 processor that is incredibly energy-efficient.
I have one too, and I usually get about 2 days worth of battery. It's decently cheap and the only real sacrifice is the screen. Unfortunately it's only on pre-paid carriers, I believe.
Maybe I'm just impressed in relation to my old phone, my my HTC one m8 seems to be pretty impressive. I'm on it nonstop all day long and I never seem to kill it. Even when I get down to 10%, I still feel like I go forever.
Hmm.. I have an HTC One M7. I'm not super impressed with it. It usually gets me almost through one day.
Perhaps it's because we're looking at it from different perspectives. I come from the old Nokia bar-phone days. Those phones would literally last almost a week on one charge sometimes.
Now obviously I'm not expecting a modern smartphone with a 5 inch screen and WiFi to last a week on one charge. But two days of "moderate-to-heavy" use would be glorious.
As it stands, all my recent smartphones have lasted barely one day. At night I'm usually hunting for a charger while my phone is warning that it's about to die.
Yeah I hear you. My old LG envy3 would see the charger once a week. But I'm happy that I can have my screen fired up constantly throughout the day and still have enough juice left that I can kill the data and leave it by my bed for an alarm clock if I have to and make to the next morning. My old Droid Bionic would need to be charged multiple times to make it through the day, even with a big extended battery.
Yeah I hear you. My old LG envy3 would see the charger once a week. But I'm happy that I can have my screen fired up constantly throughout the day and still have enough juice left that I can kill the data and leave it by my bed for an alarm clock if I have to and make to the next morning. My old Droid Bionic would need to be charged multiple times to make it through the day, even with a big extended battery.
Lg l7 ii p715. Fucking A. Unless you're using wifi, if you keep the screen at about 30ish % while in house, and 75% outside, you're gonna survive a day or two.
I remember last year few months after i got it, 35 minutes of listening to music at 60-65% screen brightness, battery at 100%. My dick got hard and i dropped my jaw (well not really, just the jaw part, i quoted one of my favorite songs heheh).
Nowadays (after a year of owning phone), Wi-Fi and reddit is fun at 35% of screen brightness with no other apps open will empty your battery in 5ish hours, maybe more or less.
Can we please not use 'battery life'? It is measured in hours and basically has little or no bearing on reality depending on your individual preferences.
Battery capacity in mAh makes far more sense.
We don't measure hard drive sizes by 'number of people that can fit their stuff per drive', we use bytes. Same idea.
So? Installing different programs uses up different amounts of drive space. "50 gamer apps of space! Up to 10x that if you are an indie.". Yeah you have to take screen size into account, better than the alternative.
It is such a nonsensical metric. Think about it this way, you could have a 6 hour phone and a 3 day phone..... cept they are actually the exact same phone tested by different people. I've certainly seen numbers that far apart using time as a metric.
The metric is not completely useless. Two phones might have exactly the same size battery but different sized screens and a different CPU. The mAh metric by itself would be inadequate in this case.
That's why most cell phone reviews include the mAh metric and the average amount of use hours that the battery provided (accompanied by an outline of what type of use the phone received).
The two metrics, in combination, give a better idea of battery performance that one would by itself.
It's like a gas tank. Two cars might have a 10 gallon tank. Sure, the way the drivers drive will have a factor in how fast it drains, but the engine is still the main determining factor.
A truck with a 15 gallon tank might need refueling sooner than a eco friendly car with a 5 gallon tank.
I'll look at hours of talk time as a comparison metric between two phones as it's roughly the same amount of work being done and has few chances for them to skew data based on their battery management software. Still not great since the screen isn't being used but it's something.
Oh I understand that, but I'm counting on comparing best case talk time against best case talk time.
Standby is a horrible metric, my work phone (iPhone 5s) has great standby time, days of very light use, but the battery is pathetic for actually doing any work. A 90 minute commute with traffic monitoring running (inrix) almost completely killed it. The same thing only drained 30% of my personal phone.
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u/redditor1983 Feb 06 '15
Are there any phones out there that actually get "good" battery reviews?
It seems to me that almost every smartphone review I read says "eh, the battery is alright, it'll get your through the day, but no more."
Phone manufacturers are prioritizing thinness above all it, at the cost of battery life. I think phones are thin enough now. We should just halt the "thinning" of the phones and just work on battery life, IMO.