First battery life and performance numbers with final/retail unit

[Almeuit]

Wait, does that say download booster? Have the carriers not locked this on the S6?

There isn't a quick toggle for the download booster on the T-Mobile S6 (see below) but the option is there under more networks (see below also).

 

[edgefever]

@almeuit..how's the battery going?

 

[Almeuit]

@almeuit..how's the battery going?

Not bad so far. As long as I disable wifi calling when I leave the house it seems to fix it. It just seems once enabled it causes a cell standby issue.

I am loving the wireless charging at home.

 

[edgefever]

Is that just a T-Mobile feature?

 

[onthecouchagain]

Did everyone see this? From GSMArena: Update, April 3: We received a retail unit and re-ran the benchmark. The numbers improved noticeably compared to the initial tests with the pre-production unit.

 

[Almeuit]

Is that just a T-Mobile feature?

Yeah... And Sprint.

 

[erasat]

Not bad so far. As long as I disable wifi calling when I leave the house it seems to fix it. It just seems once enabled it causes a cell standby issue.

I am loving the wireless charging at home.

Have you tried also turning off VoLTE?

 

[Almeuit]

Have you tried also turning off VoLTE?

I haven't yet.

 

[D13H4RD2L1V3]

Remember when I said that I'll be genuinely impressed if the S6 gets past 4 hours of screen-on time?

Now that I see it, I'm really impressed. Great job, Samsung! Managed to give a mediocre 2,550mAh battery impressive battery life.

 

[John Kar]

Remember when I said that I'll be genuinely impressed if the S6 gets past 4 hours of screen-on time?

Now that I see it, I'm really impressed. Great job, Samsung! Managed to give a mediocre 2,550mAh battery impressive battery life.

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 cores with even worse tech will do any better?
I said that the M9 will have worse battery life than the S6, and I was correct. I'll also predict that the Z4, G4, and other 2015 flagships will have worse battery life than the S6.

 

[syspry]

Was this on LTE?

 

[Love Divine]

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 cores with even worse tech will do any better?
I said that the M9 will have worse battery life than the S6, and I was correct. I'll also predict that the Z4, G4, and other 2015 flagships will have worse battery life than the S6.

People regularly pushed 7-8 hours SOT with phones like the M8 and Oneplus One. My iPhone 6+ gets incredible battery life and absolutely ridiculous standby too. It sucks that the 2015 Android flagships are a step backwards here.The M9 does indeed seem to have horrible battery life compared to the M8.

 

[neo905]

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 cores with even worse tech will do any better?
I said that the M9 will have worse battery life than the S6, and I was correct. I'll also predict that the Z4, G4, and other 2015 flagships will have worse battery life than the S6.

If the Z4 comes out with a 3,400 mAh battery instead of the 3,100 mAh in the Z3 as reported with the same 1080p screen. It will crush the S6 in battery life S810 or not.

 

[jcp007]

Was this on LTE?

Just for my own knowledge. Why would it matter? Different network but battery results would be in line on a proportional basis with results above?

 

[Inders99]

Shopping expensive stuff is always a rushed decision for many, if we cool down and wait, we will find that we really don't need new toys after all. lol

Yup...going on 3 years with the GS3 and if it wasn't slowing down or getting glitchy I'd still hang on to it.

 

[syspry]

Just for my own knowledge. Why would it matter? Different network but battery results would be in line on a proportional basis with results above?

It won't matter as long as their other devices were tested under similar settings which I assume they were. But I'm curious if these are LTE conditions because if not, those posted times will be lower for me if I buy one