On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:38:27 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote :
He is 100% correct. Someone who regularly tops badgolferman's monthly list
by a significant margin can only be a troll.
Maybe. Or maybe he's refuting the Apple trolls, Chris.
1. You can look up the battery capacity, Tyrone.
2. And you can look up the EU bare-minimum specs, too.
1 & 2 are unrelated.
That is not correct but it would be an interesting discussion in and of
itself, Chris, as the primary battery wattage consumers are generally the
same across both platforms, given Apple doesn't have special physics like
they claimed with their "special" battery chemistry (i.e., Apple lied).
The display is going to be the biggest hog, so if we assume similar
displays in similarly spec'd Android/iOS devices, it's gonna be #1.
Specifically, the larger the screen, the higher the resolution (e.g., Quad
HD vs. Full HD), and the brighter the screen, the more power it consumes.
High refresh rates (like 90Hz or 120Hz) also contribute significantly.
The CPU/GPU will use the next most amount of power, where Android's
typically have more cores than Apple CPUs where, of course, what you do
with the device (gaming, streaming, multitasking, AI, etc.) will have to be
normalized between the two test devices to make any fair comparison.
The radios also consume power, especially as many are on all the time and
searching so you'd have to either turn them off to compare or make sure
they're in a strong-signal area for the tests.
Obviously there are other drains, such as backgrounded apps, camera image
processing, sensors, and the OS itself along with other sensors using
power, overall, physics is physics even if Apple declares "special"
God-like abilities with their battery chemistry.
While there might be minor differences in power efficiency between specific
hardware components or OS optimizations, iOS vs Android, these main
categories are consistently the most impactful on battery life in modern
smartphones.
Hence, on average the puny batteries in the iPhone which barely meet the
lifetime spec will not last as long as the much larger batteries in the
typical Android device of the same price range.
BTW, my $180 MSRP free Android has a whopping 5 Amp Hour battery, Chris,
and it was born in early 2021 and is still going strong - mainly because
the battery is so huge it puts every iPhone ever built to shame.
Why?
Because Apple puts the crappiest components in their iPhones, that's why.
Especially the batteries.
Anyway, just wait until June 20th 2025 & you can cry that pool ole' Apple
isn't allowed to sell their phones that traditionally have crappy
batteries.
Now the iPhone just barely meets the minimum-life specs which most Androids
easily meet and many double (as mine does) even if it's four years old.
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