Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung S22 Ultra vs S21 / iPhone 13 Pro Max / Pixel 6 Pro / Xiaomi 12 Pro Battery Life Drain Test!”.
All right, let’s decide this once and for all in 2022, which smartphone company gives you the best battery life. We’Ve got five phones here: the brand new samsung galaxy s 22, ultra the iphone 13 pro max, the google pixel 6 pro and then xiaomi’s latest flagship. The 12 pro and then just next to that s22 ultra i’ve also added in last year’s s21 ultra so we’ll be able to see not just if samsung’s managed to beat the competition but also how much they’ve improved by and just to make sure that this test Is 100 fair for every phone you’re seeing here, i’ve bought us a brand new version of it, so everything has 100 battery health and so is pretty representative of what you would get if you went into a shop and bought one of these now. So all the phones are calibrated in terms of brightness, let’s unplug the charges and start that timer and just so you know in these tests if a phone can get five hours of screen on time, that’s solid. Six hours is good, seven hours is great and if a phone can pass eight hours, then that is power user level right there, and i just want to stress that this is a very important battery test, because you might know that for some time now, samsung has Been having quite a bit of trouble with their own in-house exynos chipsets year after year, they’ve just lagged behind in terms of both performance and battery efficiency. But this time the exynos 2200 chip – that’s sitting inside this s22 in front of us – is meant to be the savior and if we check the battery percentages so far well, the pixel is winning.
Would you look at that? That was a phone that was pretty heavily criticized for not having great battery so uh fingers crossed that result changes and while we wait for it, i do want to mention a few things that samsung has done with this next generation s22 ultra, which they’re saying will Elevate it to another level of battery life. So, for starters, because this phone is more intelligent, it can now predict based on what you’re doing with your phone, when you’re not going to need your wi-fi and signal and then temporarily, for short periods of time, put them to sleep without you realizing. But it’s not just that. They’Ve also used a very special display on this phone.
You can see how, like sometimes these screens are flickering quite a lot other times less so well, that’s because each phone on this table is using ltpotech that lets their screens refresh at the minimum refresh rate that they need to to display the content you’re looking at, Which saves power, and while last year’s samsung the iphone and the pixel, can all go from 120 hertz to as low as 10 hertz, the s22 ultra as well as xiaomi’s mi 12. Pro use a new generation of this technology that can take them as low as one hertz. I’Ve made sure to include some static bits in this test, so we will get to see how much of a difference it’s making.
So far, though, looking at the battery percentages, now it’s not looking great. The iphone is now leading the pack that in itself doesn’t surprise me. I’Ve been using a 13 pro max since the day it came out. The battery is life-changing on that thing, but then, interestingly, that’s being trailed by not the s22 ultra, but in fact the s21 ultra there’s still plenty of time for that to change.
But it is still surprising if we drop all the battery capacities on screen. Now you can see that the s22 ultra has the same size battery as their last phone, and so, if you pair that, with what should be a bunch of optimizations, then it is a little fishy. Now it’s not impossible that there might be a software update in the future which helps it out, but you’ve got to remember that a the time when the most number of people are going to buy. This thing is now, so you need to know how good it is now not after you’ve received it b that this is the state that samsung has given it to reviewers for testing, so either they’ve got a pr team that needs a serious looking at, or it’s Not going to get much better than this and that’s c, the other thing in my testing battery life does not tend to improve with updates the battery life of an s21 ultra, for example, is not better now than it was at launch last year, anyways, as you Can see we’re currently recording some 4k video on each phone right now.
This is probably the most demanding thing you can do on a smartphone you’re using just about every component. At the same time, so you will notice the batteries start to fall a little faster and then straight from there. We’Re gon na take this video clip that we’ve just filmed on each and load it into adobe premiere, a video editing program with the plan being to make a minor adjustment to the file and then re-export a full version of it to kill the phones all over. Again and if i hit that export button, you’ll notice that the iphone finishes the render way faster than any other phone, followed by last year’s s21 ultra. We are just approaching the three hour mark by the way, and the primary message that i actually want to get through in this article is that i am just glad that none of these phones are flagging. At this point, i remember when i used to make these tests like four years ago and pretty much no phone would ever hit six hours, so progress is being made, which is important because i feel like, as our phones have gotten more and more useful. We are increasingly offloading more and more tasks that would have been done using other gadgets onto them. Our smartphones are now our primary navigation devices, our content machines are banking platforms, and so it’s not just that we use them more and therefore we need them to last longer, but it would also be a bigger problem than ever if they suddenly died randomly in the Middle of the day, one thing to also keep in mind for this test is that i’ve made sure that all phones are on their default settings. I think it’s the fairest way to do it, because it’s probably what 95 percent of people will use them on, but just bear in mind that it does mean different things for each phone. They are all matched in terms of having a lighter colored wallpaper, removing the sim card from each, as that can create a whole load of extra variables and keeping them on light mode instead of dark mode.
But where they differ, is that both the pixel and the iphone run a much higher screen resolution than the samsung’s in the xiaomi, and neither of those two phones give you the ability to lower it. That said, it can’t be that much of a disadvantage, given that the iphone is now leading by more than 10 percentage points. One thing i do always notice about the iphone in these tests, though, is that, even though apple has trimmed down those black screen borders since the original iphone 10, they do still look pretty chunky up against all these full screen near bezel-less androids.
It doesn’t affect the screen size itself, though. So as far as battery’s concerned it shouldn’t have an impact. I can’t believe i tried to play this game on five phones at once.
Okay, so now that all phones are well beyond the five hours required to, i guess pass this test. I’M just gon na start fast forwarding, so we can get to the results. It does seem, though, at this point that the s21 ultra is going to beat the s22 ultra and i’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out how this could be possible couple of thoughts.
One, the s pen that you now get inside this new s22 ultra could be sipping some extra power two. It could be that this new exynos chip, even though it might be more efficient for some tasks, may actually use more energy when being pushed to its peak level of performance, because that peak is higher than before. Three.
It’S also possible that the thermals inside this new phone just aren’t as good, and if the phone is getting hotter, its battery will drain faster and finally, it could be some level of software optimization unlikely, given that with past samsung phones, how they’ve been at launch is How they’ve tended to stay but possible? Okay, the pixel is dead, so is the xiaomi okay. Let’S just do a bit of a mass extinction right now, let’s just sweep through the entire test and get straight on to which phone lasted for how long? Okay! So in fifth position is the google pixel 6 pro it’s a very strong performance for last place with a time of seven hours and six minutes, and so, even though it has lost this test unless you’re an extreme power user, i don’t think battery should be a Reason to not consider this phone, then in fourth place we have the xiaomi 12 pro, which i’ve not got around to making a full video about. But it is a really solid refinement from last year’s mi 11 and it definitely looks a lot better too, but yeah.
So this phone had a total time of seven hours 34, which puts it very firmly in the category of great battery life, especially given that it has the smallest capacity battery of all the androids on this table. Then we’ve got the s22 ultra and whilst i am a little concerned confused why this didn’t outlast its predecessor, if we just put that all aside for a second eight hours and eight minutes is a hell of a lot of screen on time, then. So, as far as the battery is concerned, i’ve got no hesitation in still recommending it.
The s21 ultra wasn’t really far ahead at 8 hours 15.. So, there’s probably not quite enough of a gap to conclusively say that it beats its successor, but at the same time it is enough to say that it doesn’t lose to it. Also side note: this is the first time i’ve had proper hands-on with the silver variant of this phone. Isn’T it just beautiful, oh yeah, and then in first place we have the iphone 13 pro max.
Let me ask you: how long do you think it lasted 8 hours, 30, 9 hours, nope, 10 hours, 27 minutes, it’s not just better! It is in a whole other tier of endurance to see if the s22 ultra fares better when it comes to camera. That video is over here or for 50 surprising facts about me. I’Ll leave that video over here my name is aaron. This is mr who’s, the boss and i’ll catch you in the next one. .