Recent content by John Kar

More like it's a bad sign for other 2015 flagships. Even the S6, with all the cutting-edge and energy efficient technology, only managed to squeeze out 5 hour SoT with 24 hour usage from the 14nm power-hungry ARMv8 cores. What makes us think that other flagships using the 20nm reference ARMv8...

Samsung surpassed the M9's build quality this time. I am objective. Also, I doubt the M9's battery life is better than the S6. All objective testing shows the S6 is far ahead of the M9 in terms of battery life. Reviewers are just more excited about the S6, so they're using it more. More use =...

Probably has something to do with Samsung's in-house Shannon 333 modem and the power-hungry ARMv8 core. The S6 probably drains a bit more than the S5 during standby, but drains less when the screen is actually on.

Honestly, the reviews over at t-mobile seem to have a lot of people giving the S6 low battery life scores because of non-removable battery. Also, most of the user reviewers don't even have the S6. Here is a prime example: "No micro SD Memory, No removable battery. Key features that Samsung had...

Lol, okay. If the S6 has bad battery life, what does that say about other phones? Here's what Ruddock said about the M9: "Yeah... I can't even keep using the One M9 as a daily driver. The thing is constantly unpairing itself from my G Watch R (like, twice a day), this morning it required a...

How is it a fail? I would rather trust an objective review than a few anonymous people on the internet who might just have defective units. In a batch of devices, a few will always have problems and those few will always make the loudest noises. The people who are happy won't be on tech boards...

Someone sounds angry that a 1440p phone with 2550 mAH battery has significantly better battery life than a phone with 1080p with 2840 mAH battery. S6 Vs. M9

They do both. The ones on the bottom are constants with no stand-by. For the endurance, they do an hour of talk, an hour of web browsing and an hour of video playback, then go on standby for 24ish hours before repeating until the battery drains.

Perhaps lemons or carrier issues? Also, GSMArena's endurace rating takes into account stand-by time.

That's because all reviewers were using a pre-release unit, which GSMArena confirmed had significantly worse battery life. For the pre-release unit, the S6 had 64hr endurance, with 17 hr talk-time, 8 hour web-browsing and 10 hour video play-back.

GSM finally re-did their tests on the final/retail S6/S6 Edge units today, and the performance and battery-life figures improved tremendously. I'm relieved to see 11 hr web-browsing and 12 hr video playback, which confirms the official numbers Samsung gave us at MWC. I knew early numbers were...

I have to agree. The iPhone 6 plus with its 2,915 mAH battery has worse battery life than most Android flagships with 2500-2800 mAH batteries. Seeing the iPhone 6 (1,800 mAH) and iPhone 6 Plus (2,915 mAH) have barely any difference in battery life shows that there are decreasing increases with...

Well, iPhones are notorious for bad battery life.

So explain that 5 hour SoT and those benchmark figures? The figures I give are actual, objective results. Saying things like, "Yeah, I think the M9 has better battery life even though I probably used the S6 a lot more and put the M9 on stand-by because the S6 is a lot more interesting" isn't...

Honestly, I think reviewers are using the S6 A LOT more than the M9, considering Samsung bested htc in build quality, feel and overall performance. The M9 doesn't feel as good to use as the S6 (I've felt the S6 at Best Buy) and there's still some stuttering in the M9 UI which the S6 doesn't...