let's decide this once and for all in 2022 which smartphone company gives you the best battery life we've got five phones here the brand new samsung galaxy s 22 ultra the iphone 13 pro max the google pixel 6 pro and then xiaomi's latest flagship the 12 pro and then just next to that s22 ultra.
I have also added
in last year's s21 ultra so we'll be
able to see not just if samsung's
managed to beat the competition but also
how much they've improved by and just to
make sure that this test is 100 fair for
every phone you're seeing here i've
bought us a brand new version of it so
everything has 100 battery health and so
is pretty representative of what you
would get if you went into a shop and
bought one of these now so all the
phones are calibrated in terms of
brightness let's unplug the charges and
start that timer and just.
so you know in
these tests if a phone can get five
hours of screen on time that's solid six
hours is good seven hours is great and
if a phone can pass eight hours then
that is power user level right there and
i just want to stress that this is a
very important battery test because you
might know that for some time now
samsung has been having quite a bit of
trouble with their own in-house exynos
chipsets year after year they've just
lagged behind in terms of both
performance and battery efficiency but
this time the axions 2200 chip that's
sitting inside this s22 in front of us
is meant to be the savior and if we
check the battery percentages so far
well the pixel is winning would you look
at that that was a phone that was pretty
heavily criticized for not having great
battery so you fingers crossed that result changes and
while we wait for it i do want to
mention a few things that samsung has
done with this next generation s22 ultra
which they're saying will elevate it to
another level of battery life so for
starters because this phone is more
intelligent it can now predict based on
what you're doing with your phone when
you're not going to need your wi-fi and
signal and then temporarily for short
periods of time put them to sleep
without you realizing but it's not just
that they've also used a very special
display on this phone you can see how
like sometimes these screens are
flickering quite a lot other times less
so well that's because each phone on
this table is using ltpotech that lets
their screens refresh at the minimum
refresh rate that they need to to
display the content you're looking at
which saves power and while last year's
samsung the iphone and the pixel can all
go from 120 hertz to as low as 10 hertz
the s22 ultra as well as xiaomi's mi 12
pro use a new generation of this
technology that can take them as low as
one hertz i've made sure to include some
static bits in this test so we will get
to see how much of a difference it's
making so far though looking at the
battery percentages now
it's not looking great the iphone is now
leading the pack
that in itself doesn't surprise me i've
been using a 13 pro max since the day it
came out the battery is life-changing on
that thing but then interestingly that's
being trailed by not the s22 ultra but
in fact the s21 ultra there's still
plenty of time for that to change but it
is still surprising if we drop all the
battery capacities on screen now you can
see that the s22 ultra has the same size
battery as their last phone and so if
you pair that with what should be a
bunch of optimizations then
it is a little fishy
now it's not impossible that there might
be a software update in the future which
helps it out but you've got to remember
that a the time when the most number of
people are going to buy this thing is
now so you need to know how good it is
now
not after you've received it b that this
is the state that samsung has given it
to reviewers for testing so either
they've got a pr team that needs a
serious looking at or it's not going to
get much better than this and that's c
the other thing in my testing battery
life does not tend to improve with
updates the battery life of an s21 ultra
for example is not better now than it
was at launch last year anyways as you
can see we're currently recording some
4k video on each phone right now this is
probably the most demanding thing you
can do on a smartphone you're using just
about every component at the same time
so you will notice the batteries start
to fall a little faster and then
straight from there we're gonna take
this video clip that we've just filmed
on each and load it into adobe premiere
a video editing program with the plan
being to make a minor adjustment to the
file and then re-export a full version
of it to kill the phones all over again
and if i hit that export button you'll
notice that the iphone finishes the
render way faster than any other phone
followed by last year's s21 ultra we are
just approaching the three hour mark by
the way and the primary message that i
actually want to get through in this
video is that i am just glad that none
of these phones are flagging at this
point i remember when i used to make
these tests like four years ago and
pretty much no phone would ever hit six
hours so progress is being made which is
important because i feel like as our
phones have gotten more and more useful
we are increasingly offloading more and
more tasks that would have been done
using other gadgets onto them our
smartphones are now our primary
navigation devices our content machines
are banking platforms and so it's not
just that we use them more and therefore
we need them to last longer but it would
also be a bigger problem than ever if
they suddenly died randomly in the
middle of the day
one thing to also keep in mind for this
test is that i've made sure that all
phones are on their default settings i
think it's the fairest way to do it
because it's probably what 95 percent of
people will use them on but just bear in
mind that it does mean different things
for each phone they are all matched in
terms of having a lighter colored
wallpaper removing the sim card from
each as that can create a whole load of
extra variables and keeping them on
light mode instead of dark mode but
where they differ is that both the pixel
and the iphone run a much higher screen
resolution than the samsung's in the
xiaomi and neither of those two phones
give you the ability to lower it
that said it can't be that much of a
disadvantage given that the iphone is
now leading by more than 10 percentage
points one thing i do always notice
about the iphone in these tests though
is that even though apple has trimmed
down those black screen borders since
the original iphone 10 they do still
look pretty chunky up against all these
full screen near bezel-less androids it
doesn't affect the screen size itself
though so as far as battery's concerned
it shouldn't have an impact i can't
believe i tried to play this game on
five phones at once
okay so now that all phones are well
beyond the five hours required to i
guess pass this test i'm just gonna
start fast forwarding so we can get to
the results it does seem though at this
point that the s21 ultra is going to
beat the s22 ultra and i've been racking
my brain trying to figure out how this
could be possible
couple of thoughts one the s pen that
you now get inside this new s22 ultra
could be sipping some extra power two it
could be that this new exynos chip even
though it might be more efficient for
some tasks may actually use more energy
when being pushed to its peak level of
performance because that peak is higher
than before three it's also possible
that the thermals inside this new phone
just aren't as good and if the phone is
getting hotter its battery will drain
faster and finally it could be some
level of software optimization unlikely
given that with past samsung phones how
they've been at launch is how they've
tended to stay but possible
okay the pixel is dead
so is the xiaomi okay let's just do a
bit of a mass extinction right now let's
just sweep through the entire test and
get straight on to which phone lasted
for how long okay so in fifth position
is the google pixel 6 pro
it's a very strong performance for last
place with a time of seven hours and six
minutes and so even though it has lost
this test unless you're an extreme power
user i don't think battery should be a
reason to not consider this phone
then in fourth place we have the xiaomi
12 pro which i've not got around to
making a full video about but it is a
really solid refinement from last year's
mi 11 and it definitely looks a lot
better too but yeah so this phone had a
total time of seven hours 34 which puts
it very firmly in the category of great
battery life especially given that it
has the smallest capacity battery of all
the androids on this table then we've
got the s22 ultra and whilst i am a
little concerned
confused why this didn't outlast its
predecessor if we just put that all
aside for a second eight hours and eight
minutes is a hell of a lot of screen on
time then so as far as the battery is
concerned i've got no hesitation in
still recommending it the s21 ultra
wasn't really far ahead at 8 hours 15.
so there's probably not quite enough of
a gap to conclusively say that it beats
its successor but at the same time it is
enough to say that it doesn't lose to it
also side note this is the first time
i've had proper hands-on with the silver
variant of this phone
isn't it just beautiful
oh yeah and then in first place we have
the iphone 13 pro max
let me ask you how long do you think it
lasted 8 hours 30 9 hours
nope 10 hours 27 minutes it's not just
better it is in a whole other tier of
endurance to see if the s22 ultra fares
better when it comes to camera that
video is over here or for 50 surprising
facts about me i'll leave that video
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who's the boss and i'll catch you in the
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