A battery test pitting the iPhone 11 Pro Max against its arch-rival, the Samsung Galaxy Note10+, found that Apple’s new flagship handset outlasted its competitor by over two hours.
The test, done by PhoneBuff, includes a one-hour phone call, 16 hours of standby time, and hours of real-world use in a range of applications.
A robot puts each device through its paces, so there’s no question of one getting worked harder than the other. And the screens have been set at the same level: 200nits.
Watch the head-to-head competition now:
iPhone 11 Pro Max is the clear winner
There’s no doubt which handset came out ahead. “The iPhone 11 Pro Max not only beat the Note 10+ in this test, but it lasted longer than any smartphone we’ve tested before,” said David Rahimi from PhoneBuff.
Apple promises the iPhone 11 Pro Max lasts up to 5 hours longer than its predecessor, and it certainly performs better. The Pro Max lasted 27 hours and 5 minutes in this test, while last year’s iPhone XS Max lasted exactly 24 hours.
PhoneBuff confirms the results an earlier battery test in which Apple’s new top-tier handset went up against a range of other handsets, and beat them all.
A head-to-head performance competition between the new Pro Max and the Note 10+ came out with a different result. The iPhone won most of the bout, but fell behind at the end because it has less RAM.
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Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 25 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh Classic II (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer. He’s written for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview, and Brighthand, as well as other sites.
