Galaxy S23 Ultra Keeps Up Exceptionally Well With iPhone 14 Pro Max In Extensive Battery Life, With Apple’s Flagship Barely Edging Past
The Galaxy S23 Ultra appears to be more than just a refresh of the Galaxy S22 Ultra. With its wide range of changes, the flagship also gets a significant boost in battery life and manages to keep up with the iPhone 14 Pro Max in an extensive endurance test, which involves the active usage of both smartphones as well as standby time run.
The battery life test was carried out by PhoneBuff, with the Galaxy S23 Ultra managing to keep pace with the iPhone 14 Pro Max in tests ranging from an hour-long phone call to an hour-long text messaging run to an hour-long of checking emails, browsing the web and binge-scrolling through Instagram. Impressive enough, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is ‘neck and neck’ with the iPhone, showing that the more efficient display and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC can do wonders for the battery.
With both flagships trading equal blows, the next battery test is the standby runtime. The iPhone 14 Pro Max is notorious for guzzling through those percentage points, meaning that the Galaxy S23 Ultra finally gains the lead in this area. Unfortunately, that victory is short-lived, as Samsung’s top-tier handset loses that advantage in the YouTube video playback test. In the gaming test, history does not repeat itself because, unlike the Galaxy S22 Ultra, whose battery was in free-fall in this part, the Galaxy S23 Ultra gains the lead again.
Social media applications like Snapchat and Facebook have the biggest impact on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. We feel that if these were not included in the test, the flagship would have ended up victorious. Then again, there is a reason why Apple receives continuous praise for providing an all-day battery life, despite incorporating smaller cells in its devices.
Overall, the test was close, with
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