21 August, 2016
The Galaxy S6/Note5 generation was a bit short on battery capacity, but this year Samsung did better. The Galaxy S7 has as big a battery as the Note5 (3,000mAh) and the new Samsung Galaxy Note7 got an even bigger battery, 3,500mAh.
Galaxy...
08 July, 2016
What good is a smartphone if you have to charge it every six hours or so? That's why the last couple of years phone makers have been trying to hit the right balance between potent specifications and acceptable battery life. In the case of the Sony...
18 May, 2016
The Xperia Z brand was a mark of Methuselah-like battery life, but now fans are a little antsy - the Z-series is no more, the X-series replaces it. Has the battery gene carried over?
The Xperia X has definitely lost some capacity - the Z3 had...
29 April, 2016
Huawei's latest flagship - the P9 - comes with a 5.2" IPS 1080p display and is powered by a newer Kirin 955 chip with an octa-core processor, efficient Mali-T880 MP4 GPU and 3GB of RAM. It has a sealed 3,000 mAh battery. The supplied charger is a...
20 March, 2016
We published our in-depth review of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge earlier this week, and it was based on the Exynos version of the smartphone. We later got our hands on a Snapdragon version so we got a chance to compare the two in benchmarks, and now...
13 March, 2016
We've been through it a lot - the Samsung Galaxy S5, as all Galaxy S's before it, had a user-replaceable battery, and the S6 didn't, which sucks. Not only that, it actually had a smaller battery than the model it replaced.
The first part of that...
28 February, 2016
Gionee Marathon M5 is one truly fascinating device. This chubby fella is heavy at 211g for a reason - the 5.5" smartphone is powered by a massive Li-Po 6,020 mAh. The mid-range chipset in charge of the Marathon M5 isn't popular as a power efficient...
08 February, 2016
Xiaomi Redmi 3 turned out a real surprise and it easily ended up being one of the strongest recommendations we’ve made this season.
The affordable fella is made of metal, packs a 5” 720p IPS display, and runs on the Snapdragon 616 chipset. But...
27 January, 2016
Huawei Mate 8 is surely one of the hottest flagships this season and lots of people are looking forward to its performance. It has a massive 6-inch 1080p display and runs on the company’s latest Kirin 950 chip. There is also a 4,000 mAh battery...
13 December, 2015
The Oppo R7s was at the office for a while, and in case you missed it on the homepage, make sure you read the review – it’s a very attractive midranger. In this piece, however, we’ll focus on its battery life and not looks and other merits.
The...
06 December, 2015
By popular demand we are now giving you the full battery life breakdowns of the anticipated Microsoft flagship duo - the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL. We already published the Lumia 950 review and we found it to be a great way to restart the...
29 November, 2015
Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is quite special because of its 4K display, but most of the time it runs an upscaled 1080p interface. We know Sony for its optimizations and we’ve seen Xperia phones does impressively in our battery life test. Yet the hot...
01 November, 2015
HTC One A9 – the phone to redeem HTC’s past mistakes and the hope for higher sales. Our review impressions turned out a mixed-bag – the One A9 indeed is a device of great build, snappy and offers capable camera, but it’s quite expensive right...
01 November, 2015
Xiaomi Mi 4c passed through our review with flying colors – we were very pleased with its performance and still camera quality. Today it’s time to give its battery life our traditional breakdown treatment.
The Mi 4c runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon...
13 September, 2015
The Oppo R7 Plus is a 6-inch entrant in the upper segment of the midrange phablet market. Visually (and in concept) very similar to the Huawei Ascend Mate7, the smartphone relies on a high-quality FullHD AMOLED display and a mammoth 4,100mAh battery...
13 September, 2015
Not overly creative with the naming, vivo has a whole bunch of X5’s and the X5Pro appears to be the most well-rounded among them, as we discovered during our in-depth review. Among its other merits, the vivo X5Pro proved an efficient battery user,...
06 September, 2015
ZTE Axon Pro turned out one of the season's surprises - it offers great build quality, interesting design, top-notch chipset and hi-fi audio playback, plus you get a free JBL premium headset with each Axon Pro.
The Snapdragon SoC isn't...
06 September, 2015
Now that the fuss after the IFA announcements is finally settling down we got some time to share the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ full battery life test breakdown. Our review was quickly topped by the IFA articles, so in case you've missed it, you may...
06 September, 2015
OnePlus 2, flagship killer or not, turned out one very interesting high-end smartphone with massive interest online. OnePlus indeed succeeded into hyping the fans and it seems the company delivered for the most part.
Whether the choice of...
09 August, 2015
The Huawei Honor 7 already went through our review routine and you can learn all there is to know about the smartphone right here. Naturally we ran our battery tests to checkup its performance and we weren't disappointed.
The Honor 7 relies on a...
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