Samsung S20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max / Note 10 Plus / Huawei Mate 30 Pro Battery Test

It's been a long time coming, I'm a little late on this one, but welcome to the full

battery

comparison between the

samsung

galaxy s 20

ultra

, the iPhone 11 pro max, the

samsung

galaxy

note

M plus of all the ones we did, the 30 Pro and Google pixel. for Excel and these smartphone names are getting too long. I have calibrated all the phones in terms of settings, screen brightness and speaker volume, which is set to 50%, so it's time to unplug it and start tik-tok. I must say it's not an app I use but a lot of people do because we try to simulate a normal use case it makes sense to have it here now if we start with the

battery

specs things are looking very good for Samsung this new

ultra

phone smart phone includes a five thousand milliamp hour cell phone, we are talking about the top five percent of smartphones in terms of capacity and that makes the three phones in the middle seem quite small and the Excel pixel on the end seems tiny as soon as as we present the screen specifications.

You can see why this will be a really interesting comparison, while the ultra has the largest battery, it also has the largest six point nine inch screen and the highest refresh rate of 120 Hertz, so if you didn't know , that means that the screen update on that phone is one hundred and twenty times per second, which compares to sixty, the kind of standard for the three phones in the middle and then the pixel four on the end, which has a ninety Hertz panel and talking about pixel four. On paper things don't look great for that phone, the smaller battery marks a high screen refresh rate and on top of that it ships with the highest default screen resolution which means another battery drain and with the pixel 4 XL.

Unlike many Android phones, you can't lower that resolution even if you wanted to. I say that, but if you take a look at the battery percentages of each phone right now, there are some interesting things about the Pixel 4 XL. It's actually not in last place, it's the Galaxy S 20 Ultra, which might be a bit surprising, but this could change over the course of the

test

. The other interesting thing that happens here is if you take a look at the iPhone 11 pro. maximum which is still at 99% and to be honest I don't buy it. I don't think it's possible that the s20 ultra here has lost 13 percent battery in the time that the iPhone has lost one or two as of Now my guess is that Apple has probably programmed the battery indicator to not drop so fast towards the start, just so as not to alarm people at the moment they unplug the cable, but of course this will not affect the final result. this

test

because when the battery is dead it's also dead last time I mentioned this site I promise there is a giveaway for a Galaxy S 20 ultra so all the rules for that are in the description no if you check out Look at the bottom row of specifications.

Under each phone you can see the chipset each one runs on, as well as the amount of RAM, and there is a huge disparity. I actually can't remember the last time I did a battery comparison like this, where all five phones are powered by different chipsets. but that's what we're doing now and it gives you an idea of ​​how many different factors there are when it comes to influencing battery life, of course battery capacity is one of them, but it's the screen, the chipset , the RAM, the software and I mentioned it. software in particular because people underesti

mate

software and the role it plays in battery life.

See Samsung's software has been okay, it's definitely improved a bit over time, but it's not as aggressive when it comes to battery management as Apple's iOS or while Mui ways what I mean by this is historically, while software has been pretty quick to close apps it's done with and maybe postpone background processes, so this sort of thing can lead to longer battery life while software Samsung has traditionally tried to keep everything open anyway, I'm not sure if you've been keeping track of the apps I've been running on all the phones, but now we're on the camera, so we're on the photo, now let's go to record videos and record 4K videos continuously. all of them, this is one of the most demanding things you can do on a phone, it generates a lot of heat and puts pressure on memory because you have to save large files quickly and the chipset it's no surprise that the numbers in terms of those percentages of Batteries have been flying, although you may be starting to notice a trend: you have two phones at the top, the iPhone 11 pro Max and the Huawei Mate 30 pro, in a sort of middle band. the Galaxy Note Templar and then right on the back you have the s20 ultra with the pixel for Excel, although Samsung has now overtaken Google, which is the result I once hoped for, as a job you might have noticed if you are credibly observer. is that the Galaxy Note m+ has signal bars in its status bar, now you don't actually have a SIM card in any of these phones.

I've been very careful to make sure the settings are as similar as possible, but Samsung's. the software sometimes shows that it's a strange bug, although now that I think about it, you could be in for a big surprise in a moment of emergency if you've somehow also been paying attention to the clock on the far right, you might have noticed that we're I'm past the four hour mark, which is actually pretty impressive considering even the last-place Excel pixel is still at 40%. I always say in these tests that if a phone can last five hours straight, that's good battery life, that's the kind of battery life that can generally get you through a day easily if it can last six hours.

You continue, that's really good. 7 super awesome and anything above that, what we can achieve if we achieve it. I should also address, you may have already noticed that the Galaxy S 20 ultra. What I'm using is powered by the Exynos chip, which is what we have here in the UK, but if you're in the US you'll get a Qualcomm-powered variant which will perform slightly differently in the battery tests, but not I imagine there is a difference between day and night, after all, the software is stored the same, the battery capacity remains the same and you still have that incredibly draining charge. screen on this phone between the iPhone and the Huawei this is neck and neck this is incredibly close, which is exactly the same thing I noticed the last time I compared those two phones where it literally came down to the last few minutes that we saw a winner and it's coming down Pretty clear from this test that those two phones are in a league of their own, but to be fair, I'm sure the galaxy s 20 you'd downgrade to a more normal screen refresh rate, 60 Hertz, like those two phones.

It might even be a class leader, but overall I think the question most people want answers to is if I use this phone at 120 Hertz, will I still have good battery life? You have to remember that these 120 Hertz panels are one of the biggest selling points of these Galaxy has 20 phones, so if you're going to buy those phones and not use that high refresh rate, you're missing out on a little bit of what you're paying, but back to that question, do it. You still get good battery life at 120 Hertz, the answer has become a very resounding yes.

Looking at the clock on the right side, well past the six hour mark, the pixel has just died at this point, which actually supports a Many of the articles I've seen recently say that the battery life of The pixels have improved over the life of the phone. When the pixel four was released, those phones were programmed for battery life like it wasn't nice, but at this point they had just run for over six hours and twenty. It's incredibly solid, it's comfortable to the point that I'd be happy to recommend the Pixel for Excel as a reliable battery phone and the ultra is called Airdate.

To these three remaining phones, it's pretty clear which one will go first, but after that it's still pretty close. between the iPhone in the hallway, although at the time it always had about a five percent lead, the last time I compared these two phones, they were basically tied, in the end the iPhone beat it by a few minutes, but it was close enough as for It's perfectly possible that that trend could be reversed because this time we're running completely different apps and you have to remember that since launch both friends have had a multitude of updates and that can also improve battery life anyway, probably already you've had enough. from looking at glass slabs and battery indicators, so what were the results?

Well, in fifth place, pixel for Excel with six hours and 26 minutes. I already said this before. I'll say it again. I'm impressed. Fourth place was the s20 ultra and up. On the one hand, yes, it is fourth place, but on the other hand, the timing itself is fantastic, especially considering that this is a 120 Hertz mode. After this, the Galaxy Note Temp Loess with its psychedelic rear finish seven hours and twenty-eight in a similar tear to the s20 ultra, but remember that with a 60 Hertz screen and now in second place, the iPhone 11 pro max is eight ahead hours and 28 minutes, this is pretty much one of the best battery life you can get on a smartphone and it has fantastic standby time. too and that leaves Huawei with 8 hours and 46 minutes as the king of this battery comparison between this and the iPhone, they will trade blows so which one wins will depend slightly on how you use your phone but both are absolutely phenomenal and as a finale .

To take away, you can be sure that the battery life of the s20 ultras is also really good and could well be at the top if you use 60 Hertz, but having said my was, and this is mr. Who's the boss and will I get you?