Battery Life seems a consistent ding so far in reviews.

[AustinTech]

I bet the real world battery results will be fine. However, 6 gb of RAM... doesn't that require more energy to power?

 

[anon(7775)]

I can kill my s7 battery in 6 hours today, yeah I know I have a problem lmao, so if I can't get at least 9 hours out of this one. I'll eat the restocking fee.

 

[travo1978]

Wonder if Samsung has some extra junk running in background?

Isn't that the basis of a Samsung phone?

 

[rushmore]

FWIW, seems the 8910 version is overall getting good battery reviews and the 845, not so much.

Perhaps the more powerful GPU on the 845 is more of a power hog.

 

[rushmore]

Haters gonna hate. Not gonna let facts get in the way, or even wait until they have the phone in hand to reach conclusions.

Whuu? I pre-ordered one, so seems counter- intuitive. Haters usually hate without actual investment. Reviews are stating the battery and I point out they are reviews. Still, the reviews overall are opposite for initial battery life impressions from last year. For the 845 version, anyway.

Typing this on my S8+, which further counters the hate assertion.

 

[Rukbat]

Using external speakers that drive more watts also will drain more.

Electricity doesn't work that way. Using powered speakers uses nothing from the phone. Using plain, non-powered speakers don't "drain" - an 8 ohm speaker drains the same whether it's a little earpiece in the phone that can handle only 1mW or a bookshelf speaker that can handle 100 Watts. It's only the impedance of the speaker that determines power drain - the lower the impedance, the more drain - and a powered speaker has almost infinite impedance, so almost no current drain at all.

 

[ScottsoNJ]

I'm not impressed by this phone at all, specially not battery side, that's a huge downgrade from the amazing Mate 9.

To me, the S9+ offers nothing worthy over the Mate 9.

This is a joke right? Better screen,better camera,ip 68, wireless charging

 

[rahool360]

ya i was hoping they could improve battery life....it seems not the case at all!!

 

[LPRodgers]

It's all in how you setup the phone, you can't trust any of the reviews because who knows if they have a million things syncing at the same time. All the veteran Android users setup their phones so well they consistently get better battery life than most people than don't know how to go into settings disable aspects of the OS they don't use so don't take too many of these reviews seriously. I'm sure the s9/s9+ will get better battery life than their predecessors, if you set them up properly.

 

[chanchan05]

It's all in how you setup the phone, you can't trust any of the reviews because who knows if they have a million things syncing at the same time. All the veteran Android users setup their phones so well they consistently get better battery life than most people than don't know how to go into settings disable aspects of the OS they don't use so don't take too many of these reviews seriously. I'm sure the s9/s9+ will get better battery life than their predecessors, if you set them up properly.

Hahaha. This is true. From the S3 to Note 2 to S7 Edge, all my phones had practically the same battery life and screen on time give or take 30min on my setup. Whatd funny is that when my mom took my Note she made it last 2 days on a single charge. Lol.

 

[anon(7775)]

It's all in how you setup the phone, you can't trust any of the reviews because who knows if they have a million things syncing at the same time. All the veteran Android users setup their phones so well they consistently get better battery life than most people than don't know how to go into settings disable aspects of the OS they don't use so don't take too many of these reviews seriously. I'm sure the s9/s9+ will get better battery life than their predecessors, if you set them up properly.

I get what you're saying but a phone with bad battery life is just that,you might save a few minutes here or there but you're not gonna make a night and day difference no matter how well you "set up" a phone

 

[LPRodgers]

It's user dependant, completely subjective to use and setup. If I use my phone 4 hours a day and you also use it 4 hours but you have 100 more apps than I do guess who wins the battery life race to zero....

 

[rushmore]

All I know is the same sites that touted battery life last year with the 835 version are being critical this year with the 845 version. They weren't wrong last year

Not long to find out, but new device magic pixie dust will bias some initial views.

 

[chanchan05]

All I know is the same sites that touted battery life last year with the 835 version are being critical this year with the 845 version. They weren't wrong last year

Not long to find out, but new device magic pixie dust will bias some initial views.

The GSMArena review actually scores the S9 lower than the S8 in their battery endurance test.

 

[Hirak Sarkar]

I haven't seen any of the reviews where they compare it to S8 or Note8. I wonder how it is stacking up on batt life to those?

Check Mrwhostheboss YouTube channel, he has posted 2 videos recently battery comparison among S9+ S8 Note 8 & iPhone X

 

[FutureMech]

This is a joke right? Better screen,better camera,ip 68, wireless charging

Not good enough for me, as the battery will be awful to my use, and it probably can't run Tekken 6 via ppsspp like Galaxy S8, because of aggressive DVFS schedule.

Would take the Mate 10 Pro over any galaxy any day, the S9 bring really nothing new to the table.

 

[ScottsoNJ]

Not good enough for me, as the battery will be awful to my use, and it probably can't run Tekken 6 via ppsspp like Galaxy S8, because of aggressive DVFS schedule.

Would take the Mate 10 Pro over any galaxy any day, the S9 bring really nothing new to the table.

I doubt the battery will be awful. And you can have the Mate 10. No headphone jack, no ip 68, no wireless charging, no expandable storage

 

[chanchan05]

probably can't run Tekken 6 via ppsspp like Galaxy S8, because of aggressive DVFS schedule.

You were saying?

https://youtu.be/TOKs8brQoV4

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

I doubt the battery will be awful. And you can have the Mate 10. No headphone jack, no ip 68, no wireless charging, no expandable storage

Yeah as great as that battery looks on the Mate, no way I’m going anywhere near their phones right now.

 

[FutureMech]

You were saying?

https://youtu.be/TOKs8brQoV4

Wow, finally, probably due to Vulkan.

Anyways the battery could be much better, i'll stay with my mate 9 as for me, the S9 offers nothing value over Mate 9(i use a DSLR as my main camera).