Living with the Apple iPhone 6: battery life, or my secret life as a wall-hugger (part 3)
The iPhone 6 has filled a glaring gap in Apple’s portfolio: after all Android smartphone makers had offered large-screen iPhones for years on end, Apple was the only one lacking a phone with a big display. The demand was clearly there as when the release of the iPhone 6 with its larger, 4.7-inch display triggered an enthusiastic reaction not just from the Apple faithful, but also for many that had made the switch to an Android device for its bigger screen estate.
One particularly polarizing part of the iPhone equation, a characteristic that could still make you have second thoughts about switching to Apple’s latest, is battery life. The fact that the iPhone has a tiny, 1810mAh battery while its direct rival, the 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S5 has a 2800mAh battery is quite the shocker.
Is iOS really so well optimized as to make up for the difference? And how does this technical difference in capacity translate into real life use? This is my personal story with the iPhone 6, a phone I’ve been using on and off for a couple of months.
Battery life: test numbers and real-life use
When we ran our initial iPhone 6 battery life test here at PhoneArena, I was shocked by the results: I did not expect the 1810mAh juicer of the iPhone to beat the competition, commonly equipped with larger batteries, but I also did not expect it to lose by such a huge margin.
How big was the difference? The Galaxy S5 had a nearly 40% longer battery life. The HTC One (M8) outlasted the iPhone by nearly 35%, even the pretty mediocre by Android standards LG G3 outscored the iPhone 6 by a healthy double-digit percent margin. The only popular phone that had worse battery life than the iPhone 6 was the Nexus 5, but that is not really a compliment as Google’s 2013 flagship is commonly known to have poor longevity.
I should also make it extra clear that our battery life test puts all phones on a level playing field with displays pre-calibrated at 200 nits of brightness. What happens next is that we run a custom script that simulates typical smartphone use, but without ever turning the screen off. This non-stop longevity is the actual result of our battery life testing. Readmore
The iPhone 6 has filled a glaring gap in Apple’s portfolio: after all Android smartphone makers had offered large-screen iPhones for years on end, Apple was the only one lacking a phone with a big display. The demand was clearly there as when the release of the iPhone 6 with its larger, 4.7-inch display triggered an enthusiastic reaction not just from the Apple faithful, but also for many that had made the switch to an Android device for its bigger screen estate.
One particularly polarizing part of the iPhone equation, a characteristic that could still make you have second thoughts about switching to Apple’s latest, is battery life. The fact that the iPhone has a tiny, 1810mAh battery while its direct rival, the 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S5 has a 2800mAh battery is quite the shocker.
Is iOS really so well optimized as to make up for the difference? And how does this technical difference in capacity translate into real life use? This is my personal story with the iPhone 6, a phone I’ve been using on and off for a couple of months.
Battery life: test numbers and real-life use
When we ran our initial iPhone 6 battery life test here at PhoneArena, I was shocked by the results: I did not expect the 1810mAh juicer of the iPhone to beat the competition, commonly equipped with larger batteries, but I also did not expect it to lose by such a huge margin.
How big was the difference? The Galaxy S5 had a nearly 40% longer battery life. The HTC One (M8) outlasted the iPhone by nearly 35%, even the pretty mediocre by Android standards LG G3 outscored the iPhone 6 by a healthy double-digit percent margin. The only popular phone that had worse battery life than the iPhone 6 was the Nexus 5, but that is not really a compliment as Google’s 2013 flagship is commonly known to have poor longevity.
I should also make it extra clear that our battery life test puts all phones on a level playing field with displays pre-calibrated at 200 nits of brightness. What happens next is that we run a custom script that simulates typical smartphone use, but without ever turning the screen off. This non-stop longevity is the actual result of our battery life testing. Readmore
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