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iPhone 6/+ battery pales in comparison to Note 4
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I just got my iPhone 6+ yesterday, and had an experience I wanted to share today in comparison to my old Galaxy Note 3. I'm currently training at a new job, so I don't use my phone much, but my service there is horrible. For the past 4 days, my Note 3 has been down to 10-15% when I leave work. I keep everything off, except of course I don't put it on Airplane mode. I have turned the display to it's lowest setting, and arrived at work at 100% battery life. Today, I arrived at work with my iPhone. Same settings, but I had the display approximately 20% up. When I left work (after a 12 hour shift, not the 10 hour shifts I have worked all week), 60% battery life left. I'd say the iPhone is much better. Also, realize my service was crappy also with my iPhone.
Useless test because of the script used by phonearena to generate the results. Anandtech will weigh in on this and correct them. This is well known, of course, but the OP is in the tank for someone based on post history. I wonder who...
The Note 4 will need to outlast the Note 3 by 35-40% to match up with the 6 Plus.
You even read the article? "We measure battery life by running a custom web-script, designed to replicate the power consumption of typical real-life usage."
And the 6+ gets 6:32 - where'd you get 6:45?
I hear the Note4 also has a business card holder built in which is a nice selling point.
No it's a Schick razor, built in. Next year they will come out with the two bladed version, and following that... Its the new upgrade gimmick.
Their script is preventing iOS devices from dropping to an idle and thus it's an extremely poor way to measure typical real-life usage. In fact, it'd be nearly impossible to get battery life that poor on the 6 Plus unless you were actively trying to kill the battery.
In real-life usage the phone will load each web page extremely quickly and then idle while you read it.
That article is a joke. I consistently get over 10 hrs of usage on my plus, and that's with mostly web browsing, and some video. My wife's 6 lasts longer than 6.5 hrs.
I believe the test figures are non stop browsing with the screen on the whole time. They run a script that does this til the battery runs out. Its not a figure to compare with your own usage
Isn't that the whole point of their test Lol?? To stress test the battery without letting either phone go idle until the battery dies thus giving you the total time each battery lasts under the same conditions? But who cares, at least with note 4 you can also carry around three spare batteries if you wanted =p.
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Guaranteed those 10+ hours of usage is not with the screen on the entire time non stop.. The iOS battery usage panel is probably making you confused.
That's not the point if your test aspires to replicate battery life in real-world usage. Unless you're just loading page after page repeatedly for some reason and never bothering to read them...
In actual, real-world use the 6 Plus is likely going to come in at least 20% better (obviously depending on type of usage) than the Note 4 based on the near 40% gap that 6 Plus has over Note 3.
Both OS are different though, while I agree in real world usage the plus will probably last longer than the Note because Android is always busy especially when you start installing lots of different services that run in the background.. I think this test is better suited for Android where as the one you quoted is better suited to iOS.
I agree, but real-world usage is really all that matters IMO. iOS is indeed very aggressive with suspending inactive applications (provided you don't have them refreshing in the background), but the other aspect that allows the 6 and 6 Plus to do well in real-world battery tests is the insane power efficiency of the 20nm A8.
In any event, the Note 4 will probably come in at or near the top of the Androids in battery life (with the exception of the phones with the ~4000 mAh batteries like the Ascend Mate 2 and the upcoming Moto Droid Turbo).
That changes the home screen only. How about other bloat that touch wiz has? Touch wiz is heavily woven into core android and just changing launcher doesnt do it.
True, but the launcher is the thing most people moan about and the newer phones don't experience lag at all so in reality it is now just the observable launcher that most people are bothered about.
But agree stock android is better than the samsung specific menus, drop downs, etc..
It won't matter - even if my iPhone 6S, iPhone 7 has same 8MP camera, I will still buy apple. Why? Because apple is infallible. No matter what I fail to see what competitors offer because it doesn't have apple logo on it!
So even if your note 4 battery is much longer or has ability to swap battery, I'd rather pay $130+tax to have my battery replaced while you can pay $15 for an OEM battery replacement.
I'd rather pay $100's for memory upgrade when you can buy a memory card 64GB for under $30. But I don't care because it does not have a shiny apple logo on the back!
So even if your note 4 battery is much longer or has ability to swap battery, I'd rather pay $130+tax to have my battery replaced while you can pay $15 for an OEM battery replacement.
I'd rather pay $100's for memory upgrade when you can buy a memory card 64GB for under $30. But I don't care because it does not have a shiny apple logo on the back!
