Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Does Galaxy Note 8 Battery Life SUCK? – Battery Comparison”.
Ever since the Samsung Galaxy Note, 8 was announced, a lot of people have had concerns about its somewhat smaller battery compared to the S line of smartphones. Well, in this article, I’m gon na answer all of your questions, so this is more or less the ultimate Android comparison. We have the oneplus 5 Galaxy, Note, 8 Galaxy S 8, plus then the s7 edge from last year and I’ve had to make this as completely fair as possible. All of the phones here, including the s7 edge, have been obtained in the last few months. So it’s not really given enough time for the battery to wear down over time and another thing worth bearing in mind. Is that a big mistake, a lot of people doing battery tests make? Is they set every phone to the maximum brightness, but that doesn’t make sense if they have different brightness capabilities, so I set them all to an equal level of brightness of about 500 nits and let’s jump right into the test starting off we’re gon na go with Antutu – and this is an extremely demanding application – not only is it pushing the CPU GPU and ram right to the limit, but it’s also showing some really bright high contrast images on the display now again, something to think about here is that a benchmark is not necessarily Putting the same stress on all the different phones, because, for example, the oneplus 5 has 8 gigs of ram and the snapdragon 835. That is vastly more powerful than what we have on the s7 edge, which is 4 gigs of ram and the Exynos 88-90.
And when you take that into account, you would expect the s7 edge, with the largest battery of all these phones and the least powerful components to have the most battery left. But that’s far from what actually happens, we have the 1 5 at 90. The no tape with 91, s8, 88 and s7 edge 89, so now we’re gon na flick over to video streaming, which, because it’s less intensive on the internal components, is a better test of how efficient the displays are. One important thing to bear in mind here is that, while the s7 edge and the oneplus 5 have the same display size of 5.5 inches, there is a significant resolution. Disparity all Thorne 5 has a full HD panel. The s7 edge over here has a quad HD. 1, and so we would expect it naturally to lose more battery in a test like this. In contrast, we actually have the note 8 and the s8, which, by default by Samsung, are set to a full HD plus resolution, which is the equivalent of twenty to twenty. By ten eighty, and that therefore lies somewhere in between the two and this test ends with the 1 plus 5 and note 8 tied right at the top, with 83 % and the s8 plus an S of an edge trailing behind with 79 and 80.
So the plan now is to run the camera for a bit and then jump straight into gaming. So for this we’re using subway surfers because not only is a fairly demanding game, but also it runs by itself. Once you initially tap the button, you will continue to run into the first wall again and again again, so we’re going to leave this for a while and see if there’s any disparity and when it comes to gaming.
What we might expect here is that the three fans on the left-hand side, ie the current generation flagships, would pull ahead a bit. The s7 edge, with its older components, will probably be less efficient to tasks like gaming and actually, when we test the battery life. This turns out to be completely true. The one plus five in the note 8 are up top with 62 and 65, and the s7 edge is trailing all the way behind at 58, so it’s been caught up by the s8 plus.
Now we move on to the big guns: this is the battery waster. It is essentially an application made to challenge your phone as much as physically possible, using all of its sensors, all of its connections and all of its power, and literally a few seconds after turning this on, you start to notice your battery life collapsing. So if you ever do want to kill your battery by the way, this is a pretty good way of doing it. Another thing to notice here is taking a look at the note 8, when it is pushed to its complete limit. Its display goes dimmer. It becomes completely locked refuses to be turned up, even if you manually do it and I’m more than willing to bet this is a safety mechanism. This is made to ensure the phone doesn’t overheat and doesn’t repeat the disaster of last year’s Galaxy Note 7 and to be clear after using this test. All of these phones are hot to the touch.
It has completely destroyed them so much so that I’ve actually had to set a fan up to keep these phones cool enough. So this test can continue to run. I’Ve also had to shut them down, put each one individually into a fridge and then continue 10 minutes later. It’Ll all be worth it and results are in. This is where it gets very, very interesting. The oneplus 5 has 15 note 8 right at the top.
With 17, the si is doing fairly well too at 12, and the s7 edge has been completely crushed. It only has 6 percent battery remaining. That test really took everything out of it, trying to test basic application performance.
All of them held up really well, even leaving them on fault 90 minutes at a time with all the displays on pretty much no battery drained, so we had to move to heavier measures. The final test is happening right here on two two, and this is where we’re gon na see which phone actually takes the lead and first out we have the s8 plus. It has actually gone before the s7 edge, a complete surprise, but clearly unto two has taken more out of it than its competitors.
The s7 edge is barely hanging on as well and as soon as we hit the next test, it bottles and goes out with it. But it still beat the s8 plus, which is kind of disappointing kind of impressive. Now it’s down to the last two and the note 8 in the 1 plus 5 are pretty much neck and neck, which is somewhat surprising, considering both phones have the same battery capacity.
But the note 8 has a vastly larger screen higher resolution screen and the s-pen to run. One potential explanation is because the oneplus 5 has that extra 2 gigabytes of RAM over the note 8. Perhaps that is causing it to drain its battery a little bit faster and then completely.
I don’t know where the note 8 just stops. It turns out the oneplus five somewhere along that line completely overtook it and it lasts a fair bit longer a good seven or eight minutes longer until that one finally goes to there we go. That is the battery comparison. Some surprising results.
I have to say because in fourth place we have the s8 plus, which actually has the second largest battery among these smartphones. Now clearly that large display, combined with maybe some not-so-great optimization, has led this one to completely bottle it. It was actually doing better than the s7 edge right until that last Sun to to test and then for some reason that just didn’t do any favours whatsoever. They are 7 edge, ended up coming in third place, which, to be honest, it could be about what we expected given.
It has both strong positive things going for it and strong negatives. It has a higher resolution screen, which means more pixels to push, and it’s got less efficient components inside it is a year behind in terms of the manufacturing process. On the other hand, it has a smaller display and the biggest battery of the lot, which somewhat offsets this. To be honest, I was very surprised that the note 8 came in second place.
Given it’s on paper specifications. It should have been draining battery like nobody’s business, but maybe Samsung really has put together some really good software to take advantage of it, and maybe it is more efficient. Now I’m right at the top. We have the 1 plus 5, but just kind of stole on the show a little bit.
It is the underdog in this situation because the phone is so slick and so slim you don’t really expect it to be packing much terms of battery life. But, to be honest, it’s managed to squeeze 3300 milliamp hours into a body where you really can’t tell, and given our only house, a 1080p resolution to push and only a 5.5 inch screen size across which to do it. It quite easily manages to edge out the competitors thanks a lot for watching I’m Steve the boss and I’ll see you guys next time. .