Samsung Galaxy S10 vs iPhone Xs - Battery life Comparison By MW Technology

What's up folks how's it going this watch hope you guys are all doing well, and today we're going to be doing a battery life comparison with the new Samsung Galaxy s10 and the standard iPhone 10s we're going to be putting these two smartphones through three different specific tests to determine how they compare against each other in terms of general battery performance and which one comes out on top in terms of battery life. So, let's get right into it now. Firstly, in terms of battery capacity coming from the previous generation Samsung s9 that had around three 000 William capacity, we now have 3 400 William hours now, even though the s10 has the larger battery, we still have to keep in mind that we have a larger brighter higher resolution display. That's certainly going to be a little more of a power draw compared to the s9 and compared to the iPhone at 10 s. That only has a 2659 William hour battery. We should expect to see uh, certainly better battery performance on the s10.

Now before, taking a look at the drain test, uh results we're going to first. Take a look at charging times, both in terms of the wireless and wired capacity. We are using the manpower 24 watt, wired and wireless charger, and in the wired mode you can see. We have the charge times listed over here at 50 percent and a hundred percent uh. Certainly when it comes to the quick charging capabilities, both are going to give you around fifty percent charge within about a half an hour which is awesome and pretty standard these days with most smartphones that have quick charging capabilities now in terms of getting from zero to 99.

Certainly, the iPhone's going to get there faster due to its smaller capacity, and you can also see the times from zero to a hundred percent, which uh, typically to get that one extra percent takes almost 10 minutes on average. Now, in terms of the wireless charging speeds uh, the iPhones uh can take up to 7.5 watts uh with our charger, and the Samsung phones can typically take up to 10 watts in terms of the wireless charging speeds. So uh in terms of the 50 uh charge mark we're getting within the 30-minute mark on the iPhones, which is also in about 38 minutes to get to 50, based on our experience with the s10 now in terms of getting to a hundred percent. It's going to take quite a bit of time on the s10, since that does have 3 400 William hours to cover with the wireless charging method, you're going to wait about 228 minutes versus about 165 minutes on the 10s now moving forward and taking a look at the first thing that we always like to do when testing out the battery and that's using the geek bench battery benchmarking tool, something that everyone can do, and it's simple and straightforward. We do choose the full discharge mode, and we turn off the screen at dimming options.

We run it in airplane mode, and we have the brightness set to about 50. On all the smartphones, so basically, with that scenario we're getting around 5300 points with a total run time of about 8 hours and 50 minutes on the s10, the previous generation Galaxy S9, scored about 3990 points with a runtime about 6 hours and 39 minutes, and the iPhone 10s got around 3090 points, and it got our total run time about 5 hours and 11 minutes now. Moving on to our video playback endurance test, this is where we play a 1080p video on the VLC app. We loop that video to infinity turn on airplane mode, set the brightness to 50 and see how long each smartphone lasts. In that scenario, uh the Samsung Galaxy s10 did really well get around 15 hours and 38 minutes.

The previous generation s9 in that same scenario got around 13 hours and 48 minutes, and the iPhone 10s is not too far behind the s10 got around 14 hours and 13 minutes. So definitely some stellar performance over here across the boards. The iPhones typically do really well in this test and, as you can see, the 10s is actually better than the previous generation s9, and certainly the s10 is a nice step up in terms of a video playback performance when it comes to battery life compared to the previous generation. Now we're going to show you one more uh drain test that is more representative of kind of every day-to-day use, certainly in terms of opening up different applications that you're going to use and just doing general smartphone related things now, just to reduce the amount of variability that you would encounter from a day-to-day use perspective and to keep the usage profile as similar as possible from smartphone to smartphone. I did want to automate the process and design a script that would open up certain applications at a particular point of time, such as uh YouTube, Instagram Twitter.

I want to make sure that a particular point in time we're going to be using the camera app to shoot some pictures and even surfing the web for a little now. This might sound a little tricky to do, but it's actually really simple. On the iOS platform, you basically use the shortcuts app to automate whatever you like on your phone, which is awesome, and I basically did the exact same thing on the android platform, just using to automate app and I specifically used a touch, a replay protocol that would allow me to again open up certain applications and do a bunch of specific commands in a particular order. Now, after looping, the set of commands to infinity, we simply just wait until the phones ran out of juice and the total run time on the s10 was around 10 hours and 41 minutes and on the iPhone 10s was around 9 hours and 33 minutes now. One thing you do want to keep in mind with our automated tests is that the screens are being used non-stop so realistically, when you're using these phones, you're going to be turning off the screen living your life and then coming back to the smartphone.

So you can definitely encounter a couple of more hours. Obviously, due to that reason, but it's again kind of an extreme example in both scenarios, you're definitely going to have no problem getting throughout the day on a single charge on both platforms, if you're a heavy-duty power user, doing a lot of gaming and things like that. That could be certainly a different story, and you might want to look into a phone with a larger battery capacity. Now, speaking of larger phones, we're going to be doing a battery life comparison with the new s10 plus versus the 10s max, so definitely stay tuned for that, and then we'll eventually have an all-encompassing battery life. Uh comparison, video for all the current generation smartphones.

So if you're interested in that, definitely give us a thumbs up. I want to thank you so much for your support and check out in the description. You'll find our speed tests and camera comparisons with these two smartphones. So either that we'll see you later take care.

Source : MW Technology