i'm surprised the battery life isn't better, when GSM Arena conducted a battery test on the samsung galaxy s, they got impressive results,
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S full battery test ready – up with the best
June 28th, 2010 by
Chip
GSMArena.com,
Mobile phones
Those SuperAMOLED smartphones can certainly take quite a lot of abuse before their batteries die. Even the Android-powered Samsung I9000 Galaxy S managed to live through good three and a half days of standby and some pretty extensive usage before it switched off. Yeap, the notoriously hard on the batteries Android might not be as bad as it is made out to be.
It didn’t manage to beat the S8500 Wave but the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S certainly managed to push a lot of work on a single charge. Here is what we did with it over the 84 hours from its full charge to its battery going flat.
- 90 minutes video playback
- 2 hours music playback
- 40 minutes voice calls
- 30 minutes navigation
- 30 minutes general usage
- 10 minutes browsing
- 10 minutes shooting photo and video
You should also keep in mind that the Galaxy S was hooked to a 3G network at all times so stand-by also took its toll on the battery.
The numbers are pretty impressive indeed and even if they fall slightly short of
the ones achieved by the Samsung S8500 Wave, the battery life of the Galaxy S shouldn’t be something to worry about. In fact it seems that you will need to try really hard if you are to drain your Galaxy S battery in a single day.
You might also remember that we did a
dedicated video playback test with the Galaxy S – it endured nearly 7 hours and a half straight before its battery level dropped below the critical 10 percent. Nice, eh?