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Does anyone know which device has a better battery life? I'm having hard like deciding which one to buy and I care about battery life the most in a phone. So if anyone knows please reply!
After owning them, I can say Note 2 has, say 15-20% better battery backup than iPhone 5.
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Does anyone know which device has a better battery life? I'm having hard like deciding which one to buy and I care about battery life the most in a phone. So if anyone knows please reply!
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I can't speak to the iphone 5, but the Galaxy Note 2 is by far the best battery life mobile device I have ever used.
Unplugged when I wake up around 730-8am, Pandora in the shower and while I get dressed, gps/google maps/pandora on the way to work, web browsing, downloading, some games during the day, pandora and sometimes gps at lunch, browsing, downloading in the afternoon, gps, google maps and pandora on the way home, it's always above 50% when I get home around 6-7pm. Just as a test I left Pandora running when I got home once and didn't plug it in, by midnight I still had 20%+ battery left.
This thing is a BEAST on battery life. I cannot imagine the iphone 5 with much smaller battery being better.... possible maybe, but not likely.
Hahaaj this is some kind of joke?
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Sounds like it has a decent battery life. Thanks for your input guys.
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Hahaaj this is some kind of joke?
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If it was a joke I'm sure it's far less funnier than the way you look. Why don't you keep your comments to yourself if you got nothing better to say k?
Note2 has the best battery life among all the smart phones I have used so far. Best by a mile.
cuteman said:
I can't speak to the iphone 5, but the Galaxy Note 2 is by far the best battery life mobile device I have ever used.
Unplugged when I wake up around 730-8am, Pandora in the shower and while I get dressed, gps/google maps/pandora on the way to work, web browsing, downloading, some games during the day, pandora and sometimes gps at lunch, browsing, downloading in the afternoon, gps, google maps and pandora on the way home, it's always above 50% when I get home around 6-7pm. Just as a test I left Pandora running when I got home once and didn't plug it in, by midnight I still had 20%+ battery left.
This thing is a BEAST on battery life. I cannot imagine the iphone 5 with much smaller battery being better.... possible maybe, but not likely.
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im curious, but why so much gps if you know where your going? traffic updates?
Scythe024 said:
im curious, but why so much gps if you know where your going? traffic updates?
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My guess is that GPS is needed when outside to ensure that phone is trackable in case it is lost/stolen.
For smartphones, Note 2 battery life is only second to RAZR MAXX, which has a 3300mah battery and a smaller screen.
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Iphone 4 bttery 1400mah
Iphone 4s battery 1450mah
Iphone 5 battery 1450 mah with larger scrren and afaster processor
So apple has increased the size and functionality of the phone and given somewhat the same battery power
Our phone note 2 has a 3100 mah battery and would beat the ip5 hands down
I was on ip4 and the battery was wery good my friends 4s battery draind like hell and he switched to ip4 again ans the same reasonhe didnot buy aiphone 5 cause the battery is same asthe 4s wt abigger screen and 4g on idont think the baterrys gonna last
The only reaso i changed frm s2 to note is fr battery life and i am gettin 3 times more battery than my s2 andd abouttwice as much than the iphone 4 which is by date the best iphone in tems of speed and battery life
So i can say buy note2 or a iphone4 if u want agood battery life
I am happy to hv switched over to note 2
iOS is much lighter and well optimized than Android, so it doesn't actually mean 1450 mAh battery of iPhone 5 will give a bad backup or something.
I really am enjoying the iPhone 5 battery backup, getting almost 2 days out of it. But as I said, Note 2 gives little better backup, at least 20% I would say.
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In Iphone is you get is an app drawer. There are no home screen, widgets, and the dozens of other features available in android. In an Iphone, when you put an app in the background, it pauses the app, as opposed to android, which keep the app running in the background. Does that make it lighter than android? Sure, but I don't know if I'd call crippled functionality and giving users the bare minimum as "optimized", but whatever floats your boat.
Works about as long, if not longer than my G1 with extended battery.
with moderate use the battery runs to 75-80% Leaving it on all night I barely lost any battery. It was ready for day 2.
After heavy use it was at 50% by midnight(from 9am)
It's all to do with individual usage. Different hardware and different operating systems make it impossible to compare.
Surely iOS vs Android would be more of a deciding factor?
The Note ii battery is excellent.
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In Iphone is you get is an app drawer. There are no home screen, widgets, and the dozens of other features available in android. In an Iphone, when you put an app in the background, it pauses the app, as opposed to android, which keep the app running in the background. Does that make it lighter than android? Sure, but I don't know if I'd call crippled functionality and giving users the bare minimum as "optimized", but whatever floats your boat.
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True but on the other hand you don't need battery monitoring cpu apps like andeoid which can cause problems from pos apps thats cause wakelocks like ebay etc.one thing I like about iPhone is the single push notification service which runs which handles all push traffic and doesn't rely on phone having multiple data connections open to random foreign servers, google should do something similar.. There are some good points of iPhone that google should steal as apple does itself, PNS is one of them. But I'm not going to turn this into an apple debate.
Those with note 2, with heavy usage did u ever have to charge it twice a day? Heavy usage as in watching lots of YouTube videos, browsing the web, texting, using a bit of GPS and such
alex217c said:
Does anyone know which device has a better battery life? I'm having hard like deciding which one to buy and I care about battery life the most in a phone. So if anyone knows please reply!
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I am sure Note2 better than iphone5....
jujuburi said:
iOS is much lighter and well optimized than Android, so it doesn't actually mean 1450 mAh battery of iPhone 5 will give a bad backup or something.
I really am enjoying the iPhone 5 battery backup, getting almost 2 days out of it. But as I said, Note 2 gives little better backup, at least 20% I would say.
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That's the same reason an Escalade will have a bigger gas tank than a Yaris, even though the latter is "lighter".
Some of the reviews are calling the 5X battery life atrocious. No idea how this is possible without bloatware, newer hardware and a decent battery + marshmallow.... Even the 6P is getting bad reviews in this department. Can anyone comment here?
Reviews are all over the place, aren't they? Not uniformly negative.
This one, for example, is very positive.
The reviews mostly use scripts and the like anyway. Real world results from the forums are probably more informative.
People kept saying the same thing with the Nexus 5 battery being horrific. With my usage and what I had installed I can get 14-15 hours before I have to plug it in. My other devices are about the same except of few devices like the Xperia when I have stamina mode on.
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Well, let's take a look :
The screen is %4 and the battery is %17 bigger than Nexus 5.
If we add a little bit more efficient battery advantage and a new IPS panel to this equation we can expect maximum %18-20 better battery performance than Nexus 5. That's all.
It means if you get 3h of SOT with your Nexus 5 you may except maximum 3h and 30-40 min SOT with Nexus 5X.
So no need to be too pessimist but also optimist.
Expectations mostly ruin the life...
I am looking to get a new phone and for a while I've been using a windows phone. The Lumia 640(terrible) to be exact. I then got a galaxy s3 from my friend and forgot just how awesome android is. I was looking to get the s5 but then the nexus 5x caught my eye. Now I know the nexus 5x is mid range but with the newer snapdragon 808 chip and the hexacore processor does it beat the s5 in performance? Both phones have only 2GB of ram and although the s5 does have a higher clock speed i cant help but think the nexus could out perfom it. Has anyone had experience with the two phones? I don't know what I should do.
I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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I do like the fact that the 5x receives updates faster and runs on stock android. If the performance should be similar than I might go with the 5x because of how fast it charges and because it also has the fingerprint scanner. I know the s5 has a scanner but i don't like how you have to swipe
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I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
Jacquestrapp said:
They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
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even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
Broken303 said:
even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
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That's crazy!!
I own these two phones right now. nexus 5X is only better for camera and stock software experience and fingerprint scanner ....rest everything is better in s5( i.e display,battery, sound/speaker, waterproofing, storage options, camera is not bad either but slow focus) i dont see any difference in real life between snapdragon 801 or 808..Funny thing is i can charge s5 much faster with s6 charger as compare to charging speed of nexus 5x with type c cable
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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that's the MINIMUM. Nexus 5 got Android M direct from Google and it was past it's EOL date
Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I get about 5hrs SOT if I let my battery run to 0%-5% which I rarely do. Projecting based off of 12+ hrs on battery with 50% left with 2hrs+ SOT. 15% brightness, location off and WiFi on for 85% of the time. BT for 45 mins with music streaming. So, it's solid battery life for me.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I'm a pretty light user so I get over a day on a charge. GSAM battery monitor says my averages are 1d 5h average per charge with 6h 15m active. It also says my average SOT is about 4h. Those stats are from about 2 weeks ago when I got the phone. I suspect this is the best I will get and as it ages the life will diminish. Compared to the old S3 I came from this is great. For charging I was at about 14% this morning and with the stock charger went from 15% to 85% in one hour of charging. To me that's pretty fast charge.
BakedOnSomeSour said:
Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Battery life lasts a day quite easily, 2 days with lighter usage. It charges very quickly, 25% in just 15 minutes.
More accurate colours than the similar panel used in the iPhone 6s as shown by Anandtech.
You get high end features on this device for a mid range price.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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About battery life, i'm a heavy user, everything always on (wifi, GPS, bluetooth, data) and I get 3h - 3h30 with 10 % battery left.
About the screen, I own a Galaxy Note II, and I'm really very happy to leave the flashy amoled screen, Nexus 5X's screen is much better for my eyes and the colors are more accurate. I just miss the deep dark of the amoled
Full charge from 10 % takes about 1 - 1h30, it's really fast.
So the battery life is not so good, not enough to last a day for my use, but I charge it on my car going to work and coming back home with a 2A charger and it's also fast.
It is definitely a solid device. I just picked up the Moto X Pure from Best Buy as a Deal Of The Day for $160 off and the camera is quite similar telling me the X does really have a phenomenal camera. The Marshmallow on the MXP is pretty dang stock as well so can't claim anything for either there but would say that the camera is great on 5X personally and the updates are a huge thing for me as well. Screen is phenomenally accurate on 5X but battery is a huge difference. I get around 5H bone stock on MXP and about 3H on Nexus 5X. They both have to be charged at around 8-10% every night and that is all so just telling you through the full day I'll get around those numbers on each device from normal heavy texting and FB Messenger alongside a lot of Bluetooth Audio from GP Music and maybe 30m each day for calls and not much gaming nor anything over 15m of video playing on FB or YT. I'll tell you as well that the signal seems to be slightly stronger keeping LTE in a tiny bit of more places on the MXP as well. The battery life on N5X is terrible compared to what you'd get BUT you also adapt and don't quite use your phone for the useless junk to compensate for it as well. Hopefully it helps SOMEHOW.
Anyone got the replacement note 7 notice anything different in battery life with the upgraded fire proof battery?
i got one last night and cant tell any difference yet. it last just like my s7 edge did
it will probably take a few days for the battery to normalize after day to day usage before anyone can really report on it.
Getting poor life at moment, gsam showing deep sleep 0%. Install same apps as on old one not sure what's happening yet.
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It took me a couple days before I actually got good battery life. Needs to set in, what I recommend doing is fully charge it and let it get down to in-between 1 and 5 percent before charging again. Don't do any in-between charging, at least that's what works for me.
My explodey Note 7 didn't get bad battery life at all. I couldn't complain one bit and was happy with it. This new Note 7 though... I think I got a real winner. It's less than 24 hours after switching and by this time of day I'm used to seeing the battery at about 62% give or take, but I'm at 84%. I'm sure it's placebo but I also feel this Note is just the tiny bit smoother and less laggy in the UI. Again, I had zero complaints about my first one so I suspect there's going to be sample variances across all spectrums with this.
Got rid of my voip app zoiper now got 49% cpu deep in gsam . So looks like bad apps.
Predive text auto replsce is a pain
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Left phone on standby overnight from 100% . After 7hr 29m down to 90%. Wifi and 4g on, auto sync off and do not disturb on.
Other people have been reporting 0.5%, any suggestions?
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Need a week or so. My blowy Note 7 had exceptional battery life after a bit of usage.
My replacement straight out of the box , charged to 100% and have had awesome battery life. Last night I was at 6hrs 20 mins of on screen time. And had 25% left. And my phone not 1 time got hot. I think this one is a keeper
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My replacement straight out of the box , charged to 100% and have had awesome battery life. Last night I was at 6hrs 20 mins of on screen time. And had 25% left. And my phone not 1 time got hot. I think this one is a keeper
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Do you have many apps installed?
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I've been getting 3-4 hours of SOT, which is about the same as my 6P was getting. This one is a lot better than my previous one though was barely hitting 3.
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Do you have many apps installed?
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119 apps and whatever Verizon loaded
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I got a new Note 7 on Wednesday, and my battery life is only so so, I'm sure it still has to break in.
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My replacement straight out of the box , charged to 100% and have had awesome battery life. Last night I was at 6hrs 20 mins of on screen time. And had 25% left. And my phone not 1 time got hot. I think this one is a keeper
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I can attest to the battery not getting hot often like it used to before.... I have like 60 apps installed, and normal use before would have my note7 burning hot. Now.... Not so much! [emoji1]
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This is the only difference I've noticed so far.
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Lol By the way, that nuclear explosion was from the Castle Bravo test, it had a yield of 15 Megatons, much higher that they had anticipated.
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My explodey Note 7 didn't get bad battery life at all. I couldn't complain one bit and was happy with it. This new Note 7 though... I think I got a real winner. It's less than 24 hours after switching and by this time of day I'm used to seeing the battery at about 62% give or take, but I'm at 84%. I'm sure it's placebo but I also feel this Note is just the tiny bit smoother and less laggy in the UI. Again, I had zero complaints about my first one so I suspect there's going to be sample variances across all spectrums with this.
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This. Exactly my experience too. The replacement phone battery is a bit better (36 hours to go from 100% to 1% with moderate use, no gaming), phone doesn't seem laggy, and most important it does not get as warm as the old one did.
Got my overnight standby drain down to 0.7%/hr from 1.4% uninstalled bbc news and amazon shopping apps.
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like another poster said, my first one was great but something about this new one is even better. it doesn't get hot and i can tell there's a significant difference in battery life. it's seemingly lasting much longer than the first
I will say this, I'll bet the Pixel XL, actually will have pretty good battery life.
I briefly had the LG G5 and HTC 10, which use the SD820 + 4GB RAM, and both were rooted and ROM'd, and shockingly they both gave me some very impressive battery life for those sized phones.
And with the Pixel having similar hardware, and underclocked SD821 ( being a good thing ). And running Android 7.1 with the better Doze than what those above MM phones had, and the larger 3,450mAh battery, I'm betting the Pixel XL does great for battery life.
My Nexus 6P is no better than my old Note 5 battery wise. Even though the N5 had a smaller battery my 6P just matches it, doesn't best it. I get ok battery life on my 6P. With kernel tweaks and everything maximized, I get like 5.5h ScreenOn time. And that's with the phone heavily modified to give best battery life, and it's good, but not amazing or great.
Here's hoping the Pixel XL offers some great battery life.
I think a lot of 2015 phones batteries were really bad because the SD808 and SD810 chips. Didn't they have some serious issue with destroying battery life? I owned the 6p for about 5 months, but finally got rid of it because I couldn't take the battery life anymore. It was just horrendous for the battery size. Turned me off of Google and Android for a bit. There's no reason why it should have been that bad, unless of course the 810 chips were just bad. I'm in the same boat as you. The Pixel XL is really my last hope in Google and Android.
I'm very particular about battery life, and I'm hoping the battery life on the Pixel XL is not just good, but great. I see no reason why it shouldn't be. I mean come on, you're running the latest software, on a device made specifically for it, which they keep barking about everything being "built in". They're using an under clocked 821. The only reason I can see it for eating battery is if they keep data collection services running 24/7, which I imagine they might want to do, since it's their first real Google phone, and they'll want to collect as much information as possible. Or perhaps the assistant will eat away at the battery for some reason. To be honest, I'm sceptical about the Pixel XL battery life ever since I got burned by the 6p.
It frustrates me that I have to install a custom rom to get a battery life the phone is capable of. My latest phone is the S7 Edge, which was getting me about 4 hours of SOT. I threw a custom rom on there that not only improves function and performance, but also provides me with 8.5 hours of SOT with the same usage patterns. Why? It's just not right. Why can't the multibillion dollar companies, employing the best engineers and software developers in the world provide a better OS and battery out of the box than 90% of the roms posted on this site?
Now we wait on benchmarks and reviews.
I, too, am concerned about the battery life. I'm coming from a Nexus 6 which I've always gotten decent battery with -- around 4.5 hours SOT. I'm really hoping the Pixel can push that to 5.5 or even 6.
I was recently gifted an LG v10 and the battery life on that thing was horrid. About 2 hours SOT. Here's hoping Google works some magic!
Had Nexus 6, Note 7, the Pixel will have phenomenal battery life.
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Had Nexus 6, Note 7, the Pixel will have phenomenal battery life.
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Sources? Or are you just speculating?
As Frankiefaithful said the 821 is clocked no higher than the 820 and I'd like to think that is in the name of improving battery efficiency by lowering the voltage and thermal throttle. I hope there are many other software optimisations since they've spent most of their time and effort on software, I understand that Google worked closely with Qualcomm on the pixel so there may very well be many improvements in the OS to run the processor efficiently. Furthermore given that the battery is the same size as the 6P, the screen slightly smaller and all the above specualtions I would hope the battery is going to be Incredible.
The guy on reddit who had all his posts deleted said he was at 5hrs SOT with 53% left after a heap of benchmarks. I take this with a pinch of salt but it could be a good sign.
Pretty good article chronicalling what has been found so far.
https://verdictforu.com/2016/10/17/google-pixel-battery-life-seems-as-good-as-expected/
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Pretty good article chronicalling what has been found so far.
https://verdictforu.com/2016/10/17/google-pixel-battery-life-seems-as-good-as-expected/
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Good find. Thanks.
It does look promising. All I know is, right now I'm averaging 8 hours of SOT on the S7 Edge (with my usage). That's 8 hours of just browsing on chrome using LTE, nothing else except a bit ( about 1 hour a day) of music playback using Google Play Music on LTE with the screen off. Also location is set on high and Bluetooth is on, and screen brightness between a quarter and half through out the day.
The Pixel XL should be able to accomplish at least that. I don't see why it shouldn't. The Pixel XL has 150mah less battery than the S7 Edge, so maybe a tiny bit less battery life would make sense. Another difference is the Snapdragon vs the Exynos. Either way, you're talking about Google's first phone, I hope they impress.
I'll have my hands on one this week, and I'll start posting all kinds of stuff regarding battery life. It what I'm most passionate about when it comes to smartphones. You'll get the real deal benchmarks and real usage tests when I'm through with it.
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I owned them all?
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I own them all?
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the XL has a pretty meaty battery unless something is off it should have good battery life. I was getting a day of normal use and ending on about 50% on my note 7 (dropped to about 45% if I forgot to put it on charge overnight) Note was 3500 and Pixel XL is 3450 so if google has made it properly it should have a strong battery life. (altho my Note was an Exynos chip and they generally use less power than SD)
It will have after EX puts out a kernel.