What good is owning a great
smartphone if it constantly asking you to feed it electricity. The
battery longevity issue is more important than ever today since most new
handsets offer LTE connectivity which is known to have an insatiable
hunger for energy.
Which? tested a number of today's top handsets. Excluded from the competition is the one handset that would
probably win hands down, the
Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX. With its 3300mAh battery, the device has 21 hours of talk time which will be eclipsed next week when the 32 hour
Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD launches from Verizon.
Ninety-nine
handsets were tested and the average number of minutes the battery
lasted while browsing the web was 193. The longest battery life of the
devices that were put through the paces was the 359 minutes that the
Samsung Galaxy S III
lasted. Yes, behind that 4.8 inch screen is an energy nibbler, biting
on carrot sticks. On the other end of the spectrum is the gluttonous
HTC Sensation XL which managed just 139 minutes of browsing time on battery.
Behind the Samsung Galaxy S III was the
Sony Xperia S with 276 minutes of web time, followed by the 226 minutes that the
HTC One X lasted. The
Apple iPhone 4S
was fourth, going 208 minutes before conking out, followed by the Apple
iPhone 5. The latest iteration of Apple's smartphone lasted for 200
minutes while browsing. While it might seem odd that the newer iPhone
model rated below last year's variant, keep in mind that the latest
model does support LTE.
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