The eternal question that many ask themselves remains unanswered. For when a cell phone with a battery for several days? While manufacturers distract us with foldable screens, full-color lights, and zillion-megapixel cameras, the industry remains stuck on a common problem: battery development. With a panorama completely without evolution, in PhoneArena he wanted to compare the great phones on the market to see who is the one that best withstands the pull.
The battery test
In the PhoneArena channel they have taken advantage of the fact that they have the new Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro in their hands to test the 4,355 and 5,000 mAh batteries respectively and check exactly how far the autonomy of the new Google flagships goes. And for this they have put them face to face against the most direct competition: Pixel 6 Pro , iPhone 14 Pro , iPhone 14 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (5,000 mAh).
To verify this, they have carried out the classic test of leaving them on with various performance tests running continuously. They have run the web browser test and the endless YouTube video playback test, and the results have been quite illuminating.
In both tests, the iPhone 14 Pro Max is the king of autonomy, and it does so by taking a clear advantage over the rest of the competitors. In the web browsing test, the iPhone pair are proclaimed winners, while in the YouTube video test, the Pixel 7 Pro reaches second place above the iPhone 14 Pro.
In this case we are talking about high-end phones of the most demanded in the market. Naturally, there could be a phone with a much larger battery capacity with which to achieve more hours of use, but the tests and focus in this case are focused on phones that are in high demand and that represent a large part of the users.
Are these tests fair?
The difference between the iPhone 7 Pro Max and the Pixel 7 Pro is 5 hours of use in web browsing , an abysmal difference that is incredible. In any case, we must remember that we are talking about two completely different operating systems, and without underestimating the efficiency of iOS on the iPhone, it would not be fair to compare both phones at the same level.
These tests also do not represent actual use cases. They are stress test batteries that take phones to the highest level, and that have little to do with the daily use that we can give to a team. However, if we continuously watch TikTok videos on mobile, browse Twitter and check websites continuously, if we could get an idea of how each phone would respond, and these tests give us an idea of how they would work.
Is better? The test makes it very clear, and even the iPhone 14 Pro with much less battery takes 2 hours of difference, but if you are looking for Android, the best in this case is going to be the Pixel. At this point we are not going to discover the advantages of Apple‘s software, but we must not forget the facilities of Google either. As always, to taste the colors (and operating systems).
