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Which? Magazine Claims iPhone 7 Has 'Poor Battery Life' Compared to Rival Smartphones
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This article is using... TALK TIME to measure battery performance???? What is this 1998?
Note 7 was released 2 days short of a year from the Note 5. There was no Note 6. It was the Note 5 release that got advanced.
But how many people rate a phone 712 min (11+ hours) of talk-time "Red", and 1859 min (31 hours) of talk-time a "Green"? I'm guessing few.
For me, it would be more like < 2hr as red, 2-4 hrs as yellow, and >4 hr of as green.
Maybe for some, "green" would be >7 hrs on a single charge, but 20-30 hours imo is way off.
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I would rather have a phone with a smaller battery than one that spontaneously explodes. Just saying...
Sure, most people can probably plug their phone in during the day. But I often worry if and when I'll be able to do that, and for how long. Lots of jobs require running around all day and not sitting at a desk, it would be great to just have the peace of mind to never have to worry about battery life. You may be a photographer working on location, someone working in the film industry with 12+ hour work days and unpredictable environments where there may or may not be a place to charge your phone. Also, leaving your expensive phone to charge at the other end of the set/studio where you can't necessarily see it is a great way to get it stolen.
The reason I mind that the lens protrudes is because it's an unnecessary compromise. Why did they do it? Because they wanted the phone so thin that the lens couldn't keep up. Well I say don't make it so thin then, and put a bigger battery in it instead. Case or no case, it would not cause a problem to anyone to have a slightly thicker phone. A slightly better battery, however, would make a lot of people happy. I doubt anyone would say "damn, they made the iPhone 1mm thicker just to improve battery life! I'd rather it be thinner with less battery!"
Not everyone uses a case, either. Some people do, some people don't, but justifying a bad design decision by "Well you'd put a case on it anyway" is probably not what Apple had in mind.
You seem to have quite the opinion about the iPhone 7. Which one did you buy?
FWIW, my 7 Plus is working very well and so far I don't have any of the issues you have listed.
If two phones are same size and cost, people don't care about excuses like one has more mAh.
They are
They make it difficult, and costly to do a BYOD tablet plan.
For example, their cheapest plan seems attractive enough at $5... for 10mb of data, and that plan will then charge you up to $40 for if you go past 10MB. yes. thats MB
Its easier to just show the BYOD rate plans to see what sort of Shenanigans these guys are pulling, to try and make it difficult for most people just to get a cheap data plan, oh and JUST to make it more difficult if you buy your device through them, you can only choose the $5 rate plan..
also, Bell won't even let you BYOD for mobile data. You must either get a device on plan or pay all up front for a device
Fido is a bit better -
https://www.fido.ca/consumer/tablets.page
$25 for 3GB data only plan.
Bell are just plain crap.. I avoid them like the plague, for everything
None of the phones in the test have batteries that were recalled. Just saying ...
If you wanted general usage, you'd see his long each phone is able to run things like Facebook. You'd not do a WebGL test.
Among iPhone 7 owners ? Not many, apparently. If you need to make phone calls you'll need to get something else.
I'm skipping 7. (I think that's Apple's slogan.)
That's good to hear you don't have those issues with your device, but a lot of customers do, in particular the hissing.
I'm not that much, next year release is gonna include too many changes personally i would wait for the 8s if i have an adjusted budget.
Anyone else notice that under the battery settings pane the "TIME SINCE LAST FULL CHARGE" "Usage" and "Standby" are always the same time listed? Like the phone isn't actually going into standby?
I noticed that when I was working on an mobile version of a website over the weekend and my test 7 device went dead on Sunday after 12 hours on Sat and 4 hours on Sunday.. The iPhone 6 I used for this generally went 2-4, 6-12 hour days on a charge and the "Usage" and "Standby" times were always different (usually 8-10 hours usage and >30 hours standby). Today I'm noticing that it doesn't matter if I "close" Safari or not, "Usage" and "Standby" times are the same. Only have 4 apps installed.
I noticed that when I was working on an mobile version of a website over the weekend and my test 7 device went dead on Sunday after 12 hours on Sat and 4 hours on Sunday.. The iPhone 6 I used for this generally went 2-4, 6-12 hour days on a charge and the "Usage" and "Standby" times were always different (usually 8-10 hours usage and >30 hours standby). Today I'm noticing that it doesn't matter if I "close" Safari or not, "Usage" and "Standby" times are the same. Only have 4 apps installed.
U.K. Consumers' Association magazine Which? has concluded that the iPhone 7 offers the worst battery life when compared against the current crop of rival flagship smartphones.
Using a series of tests designed to account for everyday usage variables, the subscriber-only magazine compared Apple's 4.7-inch phone against the Samsung Galaxy S7, HTC 10, and LG 5, and called the results "staggering".
Internet browsing time measurements were less contrasting, nevertheless the iPhone 7 still came last.
The new iPhone's poor results in the battery test shouldn't come as a surprise, given the physical limitations of a 4.7-inch handset's battery cell compared to its larger rivals (5.1-5.3 inches). Measured in milliampere hours, the iPhone 7 has a 1,960mAh battery, compared to the HTC 10's 3,000mAh cell, for instance, yet Which? describes this as a 'fault' of the phone.
The larger iPhone 7 Plus, on the other hand, features a 2,900 mAh battery, but wasn't mentioned in the test, perhaps because it was perceived as belonging in the 5.5-inch handset bracket populated by devices like the Galaxy S7 Edge (3600mAh) and the HTC 10 Desire (2700 mAh).
The test doesn't mention that Apple's own product specifications show that the iPhone 7 has a higher-capacity battery than the iPhone 6s (1,810mAh), and seems to continue a recent negative trend where media reports have criticized Apple's new flagship phone on the basis of its battery life. For example, last month, The Guardian ran an iPhone 7 story titled "How good can a phone be if the battery doesn't last even a day?" and claimed that its holding charge was worse than the iPhone 6s.
Article Link: Which? Magazine Claims iPhone 7 Has 'Poor Battery Life' Compared to Rival Smartphones
Hog wash.
I've owned the edge 7 and for a brief time the note 7, it has comparable real life usage time.
My iPhone 6 Plus battery smokes my edge 6 plus by double.
Android has background processes running that you cannot stop without rooting and many others you can. iOS has all of the apps that you can turn off the background running.
Okay, so 65.3% as much battery yields "only" 77.8% of the data life compared to the HTC? And the HTC 10 is 13% larger in area (and thicker) than the iPhone to accommodate that battery.
The 3G talking numbers are bad, but I have to say that I spend maybe ten minutes a day talking on my phone, max. I spend an ever-increasing portion of my day using the device as a mobile computer and utilizing the data network, so those numbers are the relevant ones for me at least.
Oh, the story is that arbitrarily-defined "categories" that no actual consumer cares about can be constructed to make the iPhone look worse in its "category" than other phones, simply by making it the smallest phone in a given "category". Okay.
I'm glad someone has finally pointed out that batteries that don't last a day are not good enough.
Sure, if they used the same parts and processes. But the Jet Black color introduces a whole new coating process, leading to issues. The hissing processor is new. Not saying that any of this is acceptable (its not), but new parts and processes have the risk of issues.