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iPhone XS and XS Max Have 4GB of RAM, XR Has 3GB; XS Max and XR Have Larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH Batteries
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When you have a very bright and vibrant operating system, where a lot of the design relies on white as well as offering very bright displays, OLED actually will be more power hungry than anything. To make it efficient you need to be able to use the OLED advantage of shutting off power to pixels with black. MacOS should not have been the first to get the dark theme.
That’s a dumb comparison.
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That’s longevity, not efficiency.
Android as an OS is also no where near as optimized to maximize the battery
Correct. The issue isn’t oled vs led. The issue is the number of pixels that need to be driven. For each pixel on the display you need display driver circuitry, RAM, etc. You also have to perform many more calculations, and every time one of those wires transitions from a 1 to a 0 or vice versa, in order to decide what color to make that pixel, it consumes energy.
And what is the battery life comparison? Raw specs mean nothing.
Seems like efficiency when the same process with an X equal 10% battery remaining in under 5, sometimes 4, hours. Battery use per hour (in mah) between both of those devices is less on the Note
I agree that the 3GB will be perfectly fine, just like the 2GB will be perfectly fine, but I think there is a significant difference between the 3 and 4GBs of RAM.
they have bigger battery but android battery management sucks. I used to loose 20-30% overnight just standby when i had a nexus
never had this issue with ios
The most important owner-facing spec is the resolution of the display. Display resolution matters.
Why? Because the information (textual and/or media) is unchanged across physical displays.
Apps "write" to a virtual display abstraction.
This display abstraction is mapped by the underlying hardware, and is independent of the physical display size.
So? Resolution matters.
And, here we are:
Why? Because the information (textual and/or media) is unchanged across physical displays.
Apps "write" to a virtual display abstraction.
This display abstraction is mapped by the underlying hardware, and is independent of the physical display size.
So? Resolution matters.
And, here we are:
- ("Budget" Max) Xr: 1792-by-828-pixel resolution at 326 ppi (6.1-inch)
- ("Lowly" deprecated) SE: 1136‑by‑640‑pixel resolution at 326 ppi (4-inch)
- ("Pricey") Xs: 2,436-by-1,125-pixel resolution at 458 ppi (5.8-inch)
- ("Pricey" Max) Xs Max: 2,688-by-1,242 pixel resolution at 458 ppi (6.5-inch)
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On paper, the battery life between the Xs and Max is pretty big between the 2 but in reality it will depend on how each person use their phone. For my use, I don't think I will hit near 3GB Ram but good to know the size for all 3 models.
Your note 9 has a bigger battery, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that you are right that it uses less mah per hour. That’s still not efficiency.
I leave my Porsche idling in the driveway playing mp3s on the radio and it burns less fuel per hour than my Toyota which is driving down the highway also playing mp3s. So clearly the Porsche is more efficient?
That's a great example of what I didn't say. Consuming the same content with an X, as I've had to figure out since they both are secondary background phones, kills the 2700 mah battery in about 4-5 hours. It takes about 20 hours to do the same on the Note9. Lets say it takes 17 for the Note and 6 for the X with my exact same workload, for a worst/best scenario: the iPhone consumes battery at a rate of 540 mah per hour, the Note would consume its battery at a rate of 235 mah per hour. That's efficiency, not longevity.
You've obviously never climbed a mountain before, peaked means can't go any higher. This phone has higher specs in every category.
True. I hear the iPhone XI is a flip phone with one line of calculator-style LEDs as a display.
Give me a break. In dreamland you are getting 20 hours of continuous use on the Note9.
I've seen several posts on here of people getting a day plus of usage on iPhones. Just because you don't believe it or see it doesn't mean it's not possible to happen. Screen off streaming music most of the time is all these phones do for me and that's what I get. When I daily drove it as a primary I get about 10-12 because I was doing more with it.
Not necessarily. Depends on how many pixels are lit and at what brightness setting. On average, nit for not, OLED is much more efficient.
How in the world does the XR have better rated battery life than the XS Max considering the battery is smaller and it has a LCD screen?
Initial reviews have shown that the XS Max outperforms the Note 9 in the battery department anyway:And I was hoping for a 4.000 mAH battery like the Note 9 with a smaller screen. Perhaps in 2090
