Acceptable and realistic battery life

[DaveInFL]

I'm surprised that you are only getting 4 hours of sot on your s7 edge. I'm getting on average 6 hrs.. Weird.

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Don't see what is weird. I more than likely like in a different location that you, have different signal strength. Probably use the phone differently that you. That's the whole thing with battery life, it will differ for each person. Some times I have had 5 hours, some times 3.5! At the end of the day, I am very happy with the battery life of the S7e.

 

[Jdroids]

Don't see what is weird. I more than likely like in a different location that you, have different signal strength. Probably use the phone differently that you. That's the whole thing with battery life, it will differ for each person. Some times I have had 5 hours, some times 3.5! At the end of the day, I am very happy with the battery life of the S7e.

Actually your battery results with S7e are pretty good for your usage because total time is 24hr+. I bet you can get couple of hours more screen if pushing it harder. People are often so hung up on pure screen time without considering other factors.

 

[DaveInFL]

Actually your battery results with S7e are pretty good for your usage because total time is 24hr+. I bet you can get couple of hours more screen if pushing it harder. People are often so hung up on pure screen time without considering other factors.

Perhaps, but I am good. I do spent quite a bit of time on my phone but I sure as he'll don't want to live on it

 

[Royal Mac2]

I hear you only because it's was over hyped by HTC 2days battery life wot makes it worst, Am nt impressed by sound ov it people sayin only getting 4hrs on screen time 12hrs sot dats bad, I have HTC m9 i gets 6hrs on screen 24hr sot, I must say I am rooted tho running viperone 4.3.0 rom, before I was rooted on the m9 the battery was really terrible with heating I would only get about 3 half hrs on screen time not even that n 9hrs sot I was really disappointed I wanted to get rid ov it and go back to m8 then I rooted it and flashed viperone rom now my m9 to this day I had it 9 months ago battery lasts all day long so the 10 will be better 100% so dats why I don't let reviews/reviewers who talk negative get me thinking negative about HTC cause they said m9 had problems but wen I rooted 9 all my/the problems were fixed, thanks to the best rom developers viperone who only developes HTC roms!
The only problem am worried about is the rednes in the whites which I hear dat pink colours turns to red and blu colours turn purple kmt!

 

[DaveInFL]

WTH?.....Whatever you had to drink I want some for this weekend!

ROLMAO

 

[Golfdriver97]

Mod note: let's remember to keep the discussion civil and on topic.

P.U.P.P.A.H

 

[floriyann]

The HTC 10 might be able to go two full days if you don't use it. But I've been using it. It does not last two full days.

How long did it last on a heavy usage? About a day?

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[robsawalker]

For most people and usage scenarios it will not last two days. It won't last 24 hours of usage i doubt. If it can produce similar results to the S7 i think that's fine.

Unless HTC have used magic in the HTC10 that is, and created a 3000mah battery that has technology years ahead of everyone else in the world...

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[nickname303]

Everyone can see what "up to" means. But is it good advertising? MOST people will look at that and latch on to the "2 days" part. And when the phone obviously gets nowhere near that in real use (any modern phone can last 2 days if you barely use it) they are going to be disappointed. When reviews say battery life is average (less than the s7s and 6P according to AC podcast) will MOST people remember "up to"? Or will they think HTC is full of it and be disappointed because they remember the "2 days" line.
By contrast I had the Xperia Z3 (advertised at the time with similar slogans) and when it first came out the box the battery was insanely good. It was genuinely hard to kill it in a day. No other phone on the market at the time came close. From what I've heard of the HTC 10 it's surpassed by a load of older flagships.
Are HTC lying? No. They say "up to". But are they making a rod for their own backs? A little bit.

Exactly this. Marketing is based around using psychology in many different ways to entice (some may say coerce) your intended customers into buying your product. As you rightly say, people will see the "2 days" part and that will be what sticks in their head, which I'm sure was HTC's intention. In that respect HTC are just doing the same as most other companies when marketing a product (psychological "tricks"), and it may well work as intended.

But, as you also rightly point out, in this situation if the main reason that somebody has bought the phone is the perceived 2 day battery life, they are going to end up rather disappointed when they find that isn't the case.

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[D13H4RD2L1V3]

Unless HTC have used magic in the HTC10 that is, and created a 3000mah battery that has technology years ahead of everyone else in the world...

Well, they would kinda need a DeLorean for that. XD

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[DaveInFL]

Well, they would kinda need a DeLorean for that. XD

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Or a really cool, blue Police phone box

 

[Jdroids]

Anandtech posted their analysis on HTC 10 battery life. Seems pretty good to me and better than some concerning early reports.

HTC 10: A Quick Look At Battery Life & Storage Performance

 

[Bearcats98]

Not a big fan of throttling. But both HTC and Samsung do it. Samsung has unremovable power save options.

A basic summary paragraph I pulled from above quoted article:

Whatever the case, overall battery life between the Galaxy S7 and HTC 10 are going to be similar, although how similar is going to be workload dependent and the bin of the SoC you end up getting. If your workload is almost purely display-bound, the Galaxy S7 seems to come out on top. If your usage is more mixed and primarily stresses the CPU like our 2016 web browsing test, the HTC 10 will edge out the Galaxy S7 and iPhone 6s by a nose. If you intend on running power viruses on your phone, it's likely that the bin of your SoC will matter more than anything else but runtime on both devices will be similar. Of course, due to the aluminum unibody limiting maximum skin temperatures the HTC 10 will probably start to throttle sooner but steady state performance should be similar. If you want a clear upgrade in battery life, basically the only choice at this time seems to be to go to a larger device like the Galaxy S7 edge.