After putting the iPhone 14 Pro Max and the Galaxy S23 Ultra to fight in a fierce performance test, the channel PhoneBuff has now decided to submit the two smartphones to their traditional battery tests in order to find out which flagship manages to stay powered up longer on a single charge.
The last time the channel did something similar, the iPhone 13 Pro Max (from 2021) destroyed its direct rival (the Galaxy S22 Ultra) by lasting almost three hours longer, even with a smaller battery. As the Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with improvements in that department and now only uses chips from Qualcomm (R.I.P.Exynos), the expectation is that Samsung has recovered some ground in relation to its rival.
But will it be?
The test, as in the performance video, was conducted with the help of a robot programmed to perform a series of tasks on both devices (such as making calls, sending messages, surfing the internet, etc.) until they were completely erased. . At the end of each stage, the battery percentage of the devices was compared.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max started the test slightly ahead after losing just 2% of battery life against the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s 3% in the voice call test, which lasted an hour. According to the channel, this is the best result ever achieved by a Samsung device in this part of the test.
This slight advantage of the Apple smartphone did not last long, as the two ended the message exchange test with exactly the same battery level (92%). Interestingly, the two remained tied for the next three tests (reading emails, surfing the internet and spying on Instagram), closing this round with 74% battery.
The game turned even when the two devices were left with the screen off for 16 uninterrupted hours — exactly one of the weak points of the iPhone. At the end of this test, the iPhone 14 Pro Max had 66% battery, while the Galaxy S23 Ultra had 69% — drops of 8% and 5%, respectively.
After a few good rounds behind the Galaxy S23 Ultra, the iPhone 14 Pro Max again caught up with its rival in the Snapchat test, finishing the stage with the same 27%. For comparison, this is where the Galaxy S22 Ultra hung in last year’s video.
To end the test, the channel repeated the process one more time until the battery of both devices ran out of time. Despite having improved a lot when it comes to autonomy, the Galaxy 23 Ultra ended up running out of energy when the iPhone 14 Pro Max still had 6% of battery left.
In total, the Apple smartphone managed to stay 27 hours and 44 minutes turned on with a single charge, while the South Korean brand’s device withstood 27 hours and 6 minutes. Although it lagged behind its predecessor (28 hours and 6 minutes), the iPhone 14 Pro Max managed to maintain Apple’s reign in the channel test.
In the end, it’s like we always say: it doesn’t matter which flagship you choose, you will definitely have plenty of battery in your day to day. ????
Update 03/13/2023 at 4:45 pm
O DXOMARK also today released its own Galaxy S23 Ultra battery test, which arrived with very different results from what we saw in the video of PhoneBuff.
According to the website, the flagship from Samsung managed to pass 67 hours on a single charge in moderate use (4 hours a day). In situations of intense use (7 hours a day), he managed to stay 42 hours without needing to be taken to the charger.
This performance gave the Galaxy S23 Ultra a total of 142 points in the official website ranking — enough to surpass smartphones like the ASUS ROG Phone 6 (140 points) and the iPhone 14 Pro Max itself (133 points). The device’s charging speed (1 hour and 22 minutes) was also praised.
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