Samsung S24 Ultra Battery Life vs. iPhone 15 Pro Max: Apple Is Finally Getting Competition
Battery life is one thing that never fails, no matter what kind of phone you carry about. As of right now, Gizmodo’s battery benchmark tests show that Android devices are outperforming iPhone 15 Pro Max models in terms of battery performance.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and the OnePlus 12 have now completed their rigorous reviews, giving the iPhone some competition in the battery market. For Android users who may have been irritated by subpar performance in recent years, this is wonderful news.
Reviews are typically subjective since each site has a different testing process. Setting the screen to roughly 200 nits on the brightness meter, give or take a few points, and then continuously streaming a 24-hour YouTube video until the phone dies is how Gizmodo measures battery drain. As screens get brighter and phone manufacturers get more aggressive about using energy-saving software methods, we’re thinking about making changes. However, this serves as a standard for the time being.
In battery testing, a number of popular flagship Android phones from the previous two years hardly made it to 18 hours. To ensure that there wasn’t excessive hardware consuming all the available energy under the hood, you had to fork over a little more money for a Samsung or Pixel A-series phone if you wanted long battery life.
For the previous two generations, OnePlus has routinely provided the best battery life among Android smartphones. The OnePlus 11, with its 5,000 mAh battery, gave up to 20 hours and 43 minutes of video playback, while the OnePlus 10T, a summer release with a minor spec boost, peaked at 17 hours and 39 minutes. With a 5,400 mAh battery, this year’s OnePlus 12 is even more impressive—it lasted 27 hours and 43 minutes, longer than the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s 25-hour battery life.
With every new version, Samsung’s gadgets have gotten better over time. For example, the Galaxy S23 Ultra from last year had a 5,000 mAh battery that lasted 18 hours and 33 minutes, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra from this year had a battery that lasted up to 23 hours and 22 minutes.
What’s happening within the engine?
Because Android 14 offers improved cache management beneath the hood than earlier generations, the newest Android smartphones are performing better on batteries. In Google’s internal podcast, The Android Show, Vice President of Engineering for Android, Dave Burke, went into greater detail regarding the modifications.
worked really hard to lower background app CPU activity, and as a consequence, Android 14 now has 30% fewer cold starts.
Cold starts rely on that first read and write to get things going more quickly. Although some Android forums have already praised the improvements in longevity brought about by the Android 14 software upgrade, Google stated that users would experience the 30% loss.
Both the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the OnePlus 12 run different versions of Android; Samsung’s is called OneUI, and OnePlus calls its OxygenOS. However, both smartphones are built using the Android 14 source code, along with any additional customizations made by each manufacturer for their unique hardware setups.can presume that internal hardware and software changes are partially responsible for the battery’s increased performance.
