GSM Arena conducted a full battery life test ont the recently released HTC One S to assess its performance and becnhmark it against other similar handsets. Here are the results in brief: On a 3G call the battery lasted 9 hours and 42 minutes, very impressive given the phone’s battery has only 1650mAh capacity. With one [...]
The HTC Desire X is fresh out of our review but there are still things to wrap up. The phone has a 1650mAh battery feeding its dual-core processor and 4? screen. How does the battery last? Talk Time We start off with talk time – where the HTC Desire X passed the test with flying [...]
The HTC 8X has an 1800mAh Li-Ion battery and a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 chipset – virtually the same specs as AT&T’s One X, expect for the smaller screen (4.3? vs. 4.7?). Talk Time During the call test, the screen is off, so it’s not a factor and the HTC Windows Phone 8X actually manages to [...]
The HTC One X+ is a quick update to the company’s flagship – they pumped up the Tegra 3 chipset to higher clock speeds, fitted a bigger battery to compensate and threw in some extra storage to sweeten the pot. Now the question is whether the bigger batter and Jelly Bean are enough to offset [...]
The HTC Droid DNA leads the charge of phones with super-sharp screens into the west – it has 5? 1080p display with an amazing pixel density of 440ppi (the screen looked great when we handled the phone). The demanding resolution is taken care by the powerful Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with a quad-core Krait processor [...]
GSM Arena did a full battery life test on HTC One V to assess its performance and benchmark it against other handsets. Here are the results in brief: On the call test the battery lasted a full 10 hours, surpassing even the HTC One S in this area. Using web browsing, the battery lasted 6 hours and 49 minutes, coming in close [...]
GSM Arena conducted a full battery life test on the recently released HTC One X to assess its performance and becnhmark it against other similar handsets. Here are the results in brief: On the call test the battery lasted 9 hours and 57 minutes. With one exception, it was only beaten by 2 other handsets with bigger battery [...]
There is a general consensus by now, that LTE connectivity and long battery life don’t mesh well together. Therefore, we were a bit skeptical when we started testing the endurance of the HTC Titan II. After all, the smartphone has a fairly modest 1730mAh battery, which, not only needs to cover for the LTE radio, [...]
The Mango-running HTC Radar smartphone will give us the first indication on how the Microsoft platform fares against its competitors in terms of power efficiency. The HTC Radar comes with a 1520 mAh battery and a 3.8? LCD screen, so it had a reasonable fighting chance. In fact it is one of the most favorable [...]
Let’s face it, battery tests are long and tedious. They’re also quite hard to time correctly as mobile phone usage varies quite a lot. But that’s not the reason why over at GSMArena we rarely have something specific to say about battery life in our otherwise detailed reviews. Enter time constraints. The thing is, we [...]
