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Which? Magazine Claims iPhone 7 Has 'Poor Battery Life' Compared to Rival Smartphones
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Maybe you hillbillies should go visit the UK and see how you get on with LTE/4G
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Of course. At teh end of the day a consumer is only interested in battery life capacity to life ratio, not anything silly like how the phone actually functions. Ratio all the way
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Or, ya know, get a flip phone.
What's the point of purchasing a connected device that operates within and communicates with an ecosystem of we disable all of the sharing features?
Can someone do a proper test on these figures?
They seem like lies to me. From a website blog article I personally find very untrustworthy.
They seem like lies to me. From a website blog article I personally find very untrustworthy.
I saw in another article about the Which test that they even noted the fact that the iPhone 7's battery was tiny compared to others - 1960mAh vs the HTC 10 at 3000mAh and that "it should hardly be surprising that one battery nearly half the size of another offers roughly half as much charge.".
Hmmm, doesn't that make this a comparison of Apple's to watermelons? Which? is simply taking advantage of consumers stupidity in making a comparison that from the start is weighed one way.
Hmmm, doesn't that make this a comparison of Apple's to watermelons? Which? is simply taking advantage of consumers stupidity in making a comparison that from the start is weighed one way.
How so, it's measuring battery life, end of. That is all folk are interested in. If Apple were too dumb/cheap to put a larger battery in, then that's their fault.
Are you moaning that a Ferrari is faster than a Ford cos it's got a bigger engine as well....
Lack of headphone jack is not really a design flaw, it's more a design decision.You forgot the lack of headphone jack.
While battery rundown tests are nice I think most phones will last a whole day for most people. It's now 16:30 here my phone has been off the charger since 6:15 and I have 77% left it's been a light use day but I can't remember a time I didn't make it all day.
Really? You think comparing phones with known different battery sizes is a fair or even smart comparison? The car comparison is like saying the suv that gets 15mpg is clearly better because it can drive 375 miles on a tank of gas, where the economy car can only go 300 miles (forget about the fact that it gets twice the mpg's but holds half the amount of gas). It's a ridiculous comparison. If you want to know which system and phone uses its battery most efficiently, then you need to balance out battery size across the models tested, otherwise it's just click-bait marketing.
hear this all the time. not an original statement. the steps provided is to triage your phone. once you get better battery life slowly turn the features back on...
So if you are a salesmen who needs a phone to make many calls out of the office all day long are you gonna say, I'll have an iPhone, it's OK that it only last 50% of the time as other smartphones but it's actually a miracle as it's battery is 40% of the size. Yay for optimisation!! Sod the fact that he's gonna be without a phone for the afternoon eh, in your world that doesn't matter.. have I missed any real world common sense here?
I can't help how often you do or don't hear something.
I didn't claim it was original. I was simply adding my personal thoughts/opinions to a public forum.
By far the best battery life I've ever had on an iPhone.
7 Plus: currently 2:52 usage and 9:17 standby and on 78%
7 Plus: currently 2:52 usage and 9:17 standby and on 78%
That's funny because its coming up to 5pm and i've been using my iPhone 7 Plus today for texts a few youtube videos and streaming apple music and i'm still on 70%. The lowest it has been by the time i put it on charge at 11pm is around 35%. That's pretty impressive. And it doesn't blow up either. Which is nice.
Oops! Google just made one. The smaller, and hence comparable, Pixel is 1.5mm thicker than the iPhone 7 (no-one has noticed) but has a 2770 mAh battery cf 1960 mAh for the IP7 (>40% bigger). Will probably smash the iPhone for battery life. Not moaning about the iP7, but hoping Apple will change their design priorities for iP8.
Strange. My iPhones have always bested the people around me with their different phones. My coworker uses an S6 to listen to music and that thing drops battery at about 10% an hour. My 2 year old iPhone 6 only drops about 3-4% per hour when playing music.
Screen on time on my iPhone 6 also bested my Nexus 6, despite the iPhone having roughly 60% of the size of the Nexus 6's battery.
I wonder where these people get this data. Most people I know with iPhones haven't had a complaint with battery life since owning the 5 or 5s.
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Screen on time on my iPhone 6 also bested my Nexus 6, despite the iPhone having roughly 60% of the size of the Nexus 6's battery.
I wonder where these people get this data. Most people I know with iPhones haven't had a complaint with battery life since owning the 5 or 5s.
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The last 3 generations have had great battery life, especially the Plus. I could easily go 2 days with my 6s Plus and have never had a problem in the past getting my iPhone 6 through a day with at least 30% remaining over 18 hours. I don't disable location services or turn off background app refresh or anything. They've had better battery life than my other Android phones that I've used in the same time period as owning my iPhone.
