Are you ready to give up iP5 for HTC One?

[MRU]

There is no way those stats are right. I have the iPhone 5 and note 2, and the iPhone 5 comes no where near the note 2 in battery life.

With that said the HTC One will for sure be a drop from the iphone 5. If the S4 is anything Luke the note 2 on the software side, it will have some things to help control the battery. Still though the stand by on the iPhone is by far one of the best.

HTC One get's better battery life for me than my iPhone 5 doing the exact same things over the course of the day.

My best day so far for heavy use was.

Off charge 7am. drove 60 minutes, listening to music in the car via bluetooth to car stereo and made a couple of phone calls to friends. 8am base of mountain, started to take photos.

100 photos later and showing off some of the automatic zoe creations to the gang, I headed back to the car.

Back onto bluetooth where I made a few more calls.

Back home edited some photos, sent them to the computer via email from the phone and uploaded my HTC share with Zoe.

Installed a few application updates via play store, and updated facebook and instragram / twitter with some of the photos of the day.

Read pulse and blink feed and added my diary dates for the coming week in both calendar and tasks / notes.

Later in the day I went for another walk on the beach and quick swim in the gym/pool, drove to the beach so the phone was back on bluetooth and listended to music via headphones on the beach.

Went to gym. Showed some of the photos to friends who couldn't make it.

Later drove home, back on bluetooth and made a call.

Night time checked a couple of emails and answered them. Changed TV stations via TV app and my Freesat+ box. Looked at a youtube video or two.

Bed time at 11pm. Phone was still at 37% after all that activity during the day. Power saver is off, and emails are set to smart sync.


That from the HTC One. Battery life for me - won't be a concern.

 

[bmac4]

It's true. Notice how iPhone 5 is listed twice in the browser battery test? The lower score is the "real life" score and the one listed as LTE is some freak accident is some freak accident that is not representative.

Ok well in some test you can tell me that the iPhone 5 is better, but using both daily the note 2 blows it away no question.

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HTC One get's better battery life for me than my iPhone 5 doing the exact same things over the course of the day.

My best day so far for heavy use was.

Off charge 7am. drove 60 minutes, listening to music in the car via bluetooth to car stereo and made a couple of phone calls to friends. 8am base of mountain, started to take photos.

100 photos later and showing off some of the automatic zoe creations to the gang, I headed back to the car.

Back onto bluetooth where I made a few more calls.

Back home edited some photos, sent them to the computer via email from the phone and uploaded my HTC share with Zoe.

Installed a few application updates via play store, and updated facebook and instragram / twitter with some of the photos of the day.

Read pulse and blink feed and added my diary dates for the coming week in both calendar and tasks / notes.

Later in the day I went for another walk on the beach and quick swim in the gym/pool, drove to the beach so the phone was back on bluetooth and listended to music via headphones on the beach.

Went to gym. Showed some of the photos to friends who couldn't make it.

Later drove home, back on bluetooth and made a call.

Night time checked a couple of emails and answered them. Changed TV stations via TV app and my Freesat+ box. Looked at a youtube video or two.

Bed time at 11pm. Phone was still at 37% after all that activity during the day. Power saver is off, and emails are set to smart sync.


That from the HTC One. Battery life for me - won't be a concern.

Yea these controlled test just don't give me any information. Using these phones on a daily biases say something much different.

 

[tjl3]

Ok well in some test you can tell me that the iPhone 5 is better, but using both daily the note 2 blows it away no question.

It's true. Notice how iPhone 5 is listed twice in the browser battery test? The lower score is the "real life" score and the one listed as LTE is some freak accident is some freak accident that is not representative.

Ignorance is bliss I guess. If you did anything to understand that chart, you'd notice that the first benchmark is on LTE and the 2nd is on 3G. And in short, the on time for 3G in some cases are showing poorer battery life during web browsing than the 4S.

Edit: However, you could be right about the Note 2 battery b/c he doesn't evaluate it on LTE since he reviewed it on T-Mo. I can't comment since I've never extensively used a Note.

 

[bmac4]

Ignorance is bliss I guess. If you did anything to understand that chart, you'd notice that the first benchmark is on LTE and the 2nd is on 3G. And in short, the on time for 3G in some cases are showing poorer battery life during web browsing than the 4S.

Edit: However, you could be right about the Note 2 battery b/c he doesn't evaluate it on LTE since he reviewed it on T-Mo. I can't comment since I've never extensively used a Note.

There is no way possible the iPhone 5 is better. Not from what I have witnessed. My iPhone never came close to my note 2. Maybe he was doing something different, but I really don't think that is normal.

 

[tjl3]

There is no way possible the iPhone 5 is better. Not from what I have witnessed. My iPhone never came close to my note 2. Maybe he was doing something different, but I really don't think that is normal.

"We regularly load web pages at a fixed interval until the battery dies (all displays are calibrated to 200 nits as always)...

The non-LTE phones see a sharp drop in battery life. At least at 28nm the slower air interfaces simply have to remain active (and drawing power) for longer, which results in measurably worse battery life. Again, the thing to be careful of here is there's usually a correlation between network speed and how aggressive you use the device. With a workload that scaled with network speed you might see closer numbers between 3G and 4G LTE."

The variation on his tests are much less than say the variation while you or I would be normally using our phones, so yes it is a good measure on battery life on cellular data and Wi-Fi. Keep in mind he is only using the HSPA+ on the Note 2, which he suggests has a higher battery drain due to the network speed and on time of the radio.

Doing a little more digging, he also points out the iPhone 5 suffers most compared to its competitors in talk time.

 

[bmac4]

"We regularly load web pages at a fixed interval until the battery dies (all displays are calibrated to 200 nits as always)...

The non-LTE phones see a sharp drop in battery life. At least at 28nm the slower air interfaces simply have to remain active (and drawing power) for longer, which results in measurably worse battery life. Again, the thing to be careful of here is there's usually a correlation between network speed and how aggressive you use the device. With a workload that scaled with network speed you might see closer numbers between 3G and 4G LTE."

The variation on his tests are much less than say the variation while you or I would be normally using our phones, so yes it is a good measure on battery life on cellular data and Wi-Fi. Keep in mind he is only using the HSPA+ on the Note 2, which he suggests has a higher battery drain due to the network speed and on time of the radio.

Doing a little more digging, he also points out the iPhone 5 suffers most compared to its competitors in talk time.

I had no clue that the HSPA+ would use more battery. I always thought LTE was a much bigger battery hog. I guess it should be said in their test it drains faster. Cause I am pretty sure the LTE chip requires more power to run.

 

[tjl3]

I had no clue that the HSPA+ would use more battery. I always thought LTE was a much bigger battery hog. I guess it should be said in their test it drains faster. Cause I am pretty sure the LTE chip requires more power to run.

The LTE radio goes into standby when not in use, where as the HSPA+ does not. And summarizing Anandtech's analysis, the LTE phones get better battery life than 3G and HSPA+ phones in many cases for many reasons, one being that when the task is done faster, they go to standby faster, whereas tasks run on 3G or HSPA+ will keep the radio on for a longer period, thus the greater battery drain.

 

[bmac4]

The LTE radio goes into standby when not in use, where as the HSPA+ does not. And summarizing Anandtech's analysis, the LTE phones get better battery life than 3G and HSPA+ phones in many cases for many reasons, one being that when the task is done faster, they go to standby faster, whereas tasks run on 3G or HSPA+ will keep the radio on for a longer period, thus the greater battery drain.

Oh ok. Did not know thst .

 

[hovscorpion12]

Verizon customer, and I jumped from the IP4 to the Galaxy S3, enjoyed it, but came back to the Ip5. I didn't have to switch carriers.( Verizon will probably get it by June). I definitely would not switch carriers, but I am very tempted to get the HTC One if Verizon gets it.

Verizon Wireless is not getting the HTC one. the HTC one is only available on At&T, Sprint and i think T-Mobile