jdot104
Well-known member
Re: Let's talk battery expectations
It's important to note what different reviewers say they spend their time doing. And even then, cell signal strength and other factors are important for battery life. Android Police mentioned about 3 hours, but that was with adaptive brightness, Bluetooth, and GPS on constantly. I know I don't have a problem turning those off when I'm not using them (I hate adaptive brightness), so I bet I'll get a lot more mileage out of the 6P battery.
I posted basically the same thing in another thread, but SoT is a hugely inconsistent metric for battery life.
I could play streaming music for 10 hours, turn my screen on for 10 minutes, have the battery die, then say I got 10 minutes of SoT.
I could watch netflix streaming over 4G with 100% brightness and get an hour or so of SoT.
I could read an ebook at 5% brightness in airplane mode and get 8 hours of SoT.
This is why using SoT as a metric from how other people use their phones is not a good measure. Maybe comparing your own use case between different phones that you use. But not against how others use a phone.
It's important to note what different reviewers say they spend their time doing. And even then, cell signal strength and other factors are important for battery life. Android Police mentioned about 3 hours, but that was with adaptive brightness, Bluetooth, and GPS on constantly. I know I don't have a problem turning those off when I'm not using them (I hate adaptive brightness), so I bet I'll get a lot more mileage out of the 6P battery.