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Samsung Galaxy S4: Battery Life
How many hours can you get out of the Samsung Galaxy S4 battery life?
Not many sites have gotten their hands on a review device yet, so it’s hard to comment definitively on Samsung Galaxy S4 battery life. However, GSM Arena has run some pretty thorough tests on its device and published a battery life review, so that’s as good a measure as any to go by for the time being. As soon as some more sites have released their opinions, we’ll update this post. Of course, we’ll be ranging some Samsung Galaxy S4 accessories to help improve on battery life as well, such as the extra battery kit pictured below.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has one of the biggest batteries on the market, measuring in at 2600mAh – that’s almost a 25% increase on the size of the Galaxy S3 battery. However, it also has a whole lot of technology to power, including that massive 5″ display. It’s important to bear in mind that the different variants (there’s a quad-core and an octal-core version) of the S4 will offer differing performance when it comes to battery life, but GSM Arena had the quad-core (Snapdragon 600) version, which is the one that will be available in the UK.
Note: we’ve included screen shots of the condensed version of the GSM Arena tests here. If you visit the post itself (link at the bottom of this post), you can see an expanded version that has a greater range of handsets.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Talk Time
The Samsung Galaxy S4 fairs up pretty well in this test, although it’s beaten by rivals such as the Nexus 4, Sony Xperia Z and Motorola RAZR i. The Galaxy S4 talk time measured in at 13 hours 53 minutes and top of the list – as you’d expect – was the Motorola RAZR MAXX with 21 hours 18 minutes.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Web Browsing
The results for web browsing time place the Galaxy S4 6th in the list with 8 hours 42 minutes, which isn’t bad considering it’s competing against the likes of the Note 2 and RAZR MAXX. However, one of its closest rivals, the HTC One, comes out on the very top with 9 hours 58.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Video Playback Time
The Samsung Galaxy S4 also fairs up pretty well when it comes to battery life for video Playback. Sixth in position again, it will give you 10 hours 16 of video viewing – more than enough to watch a few films on long journeys.
Overall these early indications show that we can expect a pretty good battery life from the Samsung Galaxy S4. It’s offering a good balance for carrying out certain tasks and it should event get power users to the end of the day with one charge. We’ll have a look at some more opinions and update this post once more reviews have gone live.
Sources: GSM Arena
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2013-03-28 04:49:16
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