The iPhone 7 battery might be larger than its predecessor, but that’s still not enough for it to catch up with other leading flagship smartphones, as per a new consumer testing report.
According to the U.K.-based Which?, the iPhone 7 performs far behind the Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5 and HTC 10 when it comes to call and internet time.
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Putting the iPhone 7 battery through its paces, Which? tested it with a 3G call and a web page that continually refreshed.
When it came to call time, the iPhone 7 managed only 712 minutes, next to 1,859 minutes for the HTC 10, 1,759 for the LG G5, and 1,492 for the Samsung Galaxy S7.
The iPhone 7 also lost out on the internet page competition, although there wasn’t such a massive disparity between Apple and its rivals. In this case, the iPhone 7 managed 615 minutes, compared with 790 for the HTC 10, 640 for the LG G5, and 677 for the Galaxy S7.
The relatively lackluster iPhone 7 battery life has been criticized by reviewers and by some customers, who have long wanted Apple to include bigger batteries for the iPhone.
Of course, battery life isn’t the only determining factor when it comes to people choosing a new phone. In speed tests, the iPhone 7 has been shown to be incredibly speedy — obliterating Samsung’s once-proud Galaxy Note 7 in a head-to-head test.
The Note 7, meanwhile, has suffered somewhat severe battery problems — with an exploding battery that torched one family’s Jeep.
Still, the lack of battery longevity from a single charge is a stick that has been used to beat the iPhone for a while. Hopefully it’s something Apple will think about when it comes to launching next year’s tenth-birthday edition iPhone 8.
How important is the battery life of your phone? Leave your comments below.
Via: Business Insider
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
10 responses to “iPhone 7 battery life can’t match rivals”
Can confirm. iPhone 7’s battery life in call times is indeed much worse than i had anticipated.
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Hardly fair the LG G5 is an iphone plus competitor with that screen size it is bound to have a larger battery. Not a fan boy but we should compare Apples with apples and not pears.
But it’s 0.2mm thinner!
Really? Complaints about s7 battery life are rampant. My S6 gets about 2 1/2 hours SOT, at best. My daughters new iPhone7? 6.5.
I love Android but don’t know how much longer I can stand the awful memory management that leads to terrible battery life.
6.5 SOT hey ? not sure where you’re getting that stat from., if its from the ” usage ” panel then yea that’s not SOT at all, it counts for screen off usage too. more like she gets 1 hour.
Buy a nexus then
I saw two articles on the same site (BGR) one saying how bad the battery life was in the morning then in the mid afternoon how the battery life wasn’t so bad using the same infographic.
WTF, they are a joke. The issue with Apple’s battery life is not the battery but how little they put into the phone. Their quest to reduce .2mm of thickness is a waste. Every iPhone user wants more battery and not less, no one would bitch about a .5mm thicker iPhone if the battery life went up 40%. Instead Apple wants iPhone 6S and iPhone 7 users to add the iPhone Humpback case onto their phone. So the quest for design is lost by the battery case.
My 7 has great battery life! Yesterday I got to the end of the work day with 60% left. My Note 5 would be half drained by lunch.
Can confirm 7 performance seems worse than my old 6S on the exact same usage pattern.
And to reiterate what others have said both here and elsewhere, the tiresome determination to make iPhones thinner and thinner is further evidence of Apple’s naval gazing: essentially, having meetings with company yes-drones who turn up and nod unthinkingly at how awesome everything is. When it isn’t.
Result: The company is getting seriously out of touch with what customers actually want. You can see why Google gave its new Pixel handsets the same price and almost identical design language but with the features and capabilities today’s iPhone owners yearn for.
Also where’s my new MBP that doesn’t have previous-previous-previous gen hardware in it?