The Samsung Galaxy S2's display "pro" is battery life? Does not reflect real-life use then...
Small thing that happened today: a collegue of mine happens to have an S2, and he had to charge his today at 3PM. I gave him a strange look and asked if he had charged him over-night. "Yea sure". Then I asked him what he had done with his phone today, I wanted to compare his usage with mine, which was imo an average use.
This was my iPhone 4's activity up to that point:
1) In the car: connected to the car-kit with Bluetooth, making 1 call of about 5 minutes
2) In the car: connected with a cable to the car-radio playing music for about 40 minuted. Since the car-radio kit was only intended for old iPods, this causes the display to be constant "on" while playing music, and displaying "charging not supported with this accessory".
3) Calling about 30 minutes in the office
4) Sending about 20 texts
5) Receiving about 50 texts (some servers went down and spammed my phone)
6) Playing music using my earbuds for about an hour.
7) Checked twitter and facebook when I got a notification
8) Played one Planets vs Zombies level.
9) Installing Infinity Blade and 5 other smaller app updates from the appstore over WiFi (Infinity blade alone is 500mb+)
My battery level now, about 3,5h after he had to charge his phone: 65%. Now his answer was:
1) a 5 minute call
2) and sending/receiving about 10 texts in total.
3) 5 minutes of checking the news in the browser during lunch.
4) Searching and installing a small app on the Android market and playing with it for a few minutes.
I almost couldn't believe this, so asked him about a carkit? No. Music in car? No. Music at the office? No. He then made it worse by mentioning he had a "battery improvement" app installed, which he claimed helped a lot, and that he had bluetooth and wifi disabled. Certainly the wifi struck me as odd, but he explained he had a 2gb/month data contract, so he didn't really care, and enabled his wifi manually when he thought it was needed.
We both started the day at 100%. Ok, so he did start his day about 1h earlier than me, but still, it should at least make it through the day with that little useage?
So yea, apparently, the AMOLED really helps to improve the battery life...
A screen is not a phone. Why the sarcasm? I think you need to read more carefully. I said the AMOLED screen has an edge over the Retina in battery life - meaning power draw. I didn't say a thing about the phone as a whole.
My iPhone 4 outlasts almost any Android phone you care to name, regardless of screen technology.
Well, look at what Android reports as main battery consumer (which you can check on Android), you'll see that the vast majority of their claimed battery consumption is credited to the display :)
I'm not sure if what Android reports is correct, but it is a good indication imho...
Small thing that happened today: a collegue of mine happens to have an S2, and he had to charge his today at 3PM. I gave him a strange look and asked if he had charged him over-night. "Yea sure". Then I asked him what he had done with his phone today, I wanted to compare his usage with mine, which was imo an average use.
This was my iPhone 4's activity up to that point: 1) In the car: connected to the car-kit with Bluetooth, making 1 call of about 5 minutes 2) In the car: connected with a cable to the car-radio playing music for about 40 minuted. Since the car-radio kit was only intended for old iPods, this causes the display to be constant "on" while playing music, and displaying "charging not supported with this accessory". 3) Calling about 30 minutes in the office 4) Sending about 20 texts 5) Receiving about 50 texts (some servers went down and spammed my phone) 6) Playing music using my earbuds for about an hour. 7) Checked twitter and facebook when I got a notification 8) Played one Planets vs Zombies level. 9) Installing Infinity Blade and 5 other smaller app updates from the appstore over WiFi (Infinity blade alone is 500mb+)
My battery level now, about 3,5h after he had to charge his phone: 65%. Now his answer was: 1) a 5 minute call 2) and sending/receiving about 10 texts in total. 3) 5 minutes of checking the news in the browser during lunch. 4) Searching and installing a small app on the Android market and playing with it for a few minutes.
I almost couldn't believe this, so asked him about a carkit? No. Music in car? No. Music at the office? No. He then made it worse by mentioning he had a "battery improvement" app installed, which he claimed helped a lot, and that he had bluetooth and wifi disabled. Certainly the wifi struck me as odd, but he explained he had a 2gb/month data contract, so he didn't really care, and enabled his wifi manually when he thought it was needed.
We both started the day at 100%. Ok, so he did start his day about 1h earlier than me, but still, it should at least make it through the day with that little useage?
So yea, apparently, the AMOLED really helps to improve the battery life...