Smartphone Battery Life

[Tsepz_GP]

So it seems we are finally reaching a point where smartphone OEMs are finally listening to is consumers with regards to Battery life, although it's still nowhere near perfect by any means, it's great to see more and more phones break that 3500mAh barrier in mainstream flagships.

I remember when big batteries seemed to be reserved for niche and low volume phones that were sold in select markets like the Galaxy S Active devices in the USA, or Asus Zenfone Max, Gionee Marathon M5 Plus, Huawei Ascend Mate7 and Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro, that just never seemed to be available easily locally. I think the Huawei Ascend Mate7 was one of the few we had locally along with the Asus (please correct me if I am wrong).

What do you guys think? Is it looking good going forward?

One OEM who has been impressive is BlackBerry (TCL) with the KEYOne and KEYTwo, but they took it a bit far with the mid end SoCs. Samsung of course became rather conservative after the explosive Note7, and went down to 3300mAh with Note8 but they at least fixed this in the Note9.

Any S9+, Note8, iPhone X, LG V30, LG G7 or 8 Plus, P20, P20 Pro, Mate8, Mate9, Mate10 etc etc etc... users care to comment?

 

[Bryn]

Battery life hasn't been an issue for years already for anyone who cared enough to Google for the right devices to buy. My OnePlus One had amazing battery life, as does my current OnePlus 6. The best I've ever seen was my previous OnePlus 5, which seemed to have a built-in nano fusion reactor.

If a mainstream device launches now with poor battery life then it's not being competitive, so it's not likely we'll be seeing too much of that.