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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
If the One has good battery life I think I'm still sold on it.
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Here’s an excerpt of The Verge’s HTC One review which highlighted the device’s ‘unpleasant’ runtime:
“… I struggled to make the One last a full day…” said DAvid Pierce, “In more practical use, you’re going to want a charger nearby, since I killed the battery with about ten hours of tweeting, browsing, emailing, and not that much else. This is an unpleasant, sadly unremarkable side effect of big screens and fast phones, but’s a shame nonetheless.”
Pierce himself did update this part of his review after readers have relentlessly debated and expressed their skepticism as to why the HTC One fared poorly on The Verge’s battery life test when it [the One] performed ‘amazingly well’ as confessed by other tech reviewers, the statements we’ve included after Pierce’s statement below can certainly attest to that.
“HTC shipped me a second, and I re-ran a lot of tests to see if anything was different. First, I ran the Verge Battery Test, our standard test that cycles through a series of popular websites and high-res images with brightness set to 65 percent. The One lasted 4 hours, 48 minutes, a decidedly average score…” [...] “… If you’re using it normally (which means relatively lightly), it should last you a whole day, but the One is a decidedly average performer when it comes to battery life.”
Expert Reviews has revealed that the handset was able to stay alive for eight hours and thirty-two minutes during their continuous video playback test and stated that it is ”a strong result” and ”bodes well for all-day battery life”. Phone Arena has compared the HTC One’s talk time to some of the most popular smartphones currently out on the market and despite it not being mentioned by Pierce during his review, HTC’s flagship came out on top of the list which is able to achieve an impressive 16.8 hours of 3G talk time, the LG Nexus 4 trailed behind which lasted for 15.3 hour while the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5 were the weakest of the bunch, achieving talk times of 11.6 and 8 hours respectively.
Engadget’s Brad Molen said in his review they got almost nine hours of battery life on the HTC One with constant use and that during their rundown endurance test [starred by no other than the One], the phone was able to survive for a pretty ‘average’ 6 hours and 30 minutes after being subjected to a high-definition video playback that was looped endlessly.
Mat Smith (Engadget UK team) was able to test the HTC One on UK’s EE LTE network and said “[During] a standard day’s use on LTE (including a heavy-use three-hour stint in a hospital waiting room), our European review model powered down just after eight hours’ use – not far off our HSPA rundown, possibly thanks to Qualcomm’s integrated radios in its new 600 series.”
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