All bow to the new endurance king: Sony Xperia Z3 scores a record battery life for its category
We are not going to mince words here - Sony is the current king of
battery life when it comes to brand-name smartphones. We did our
grueling battery benchmark on the Xperia Z3 over the weekend, and it
broke all records in its respective category, just as we suspected it
would do, given Sony's consistent performance in that department this
year.
The phone lasted for nearly nine and a
half hours of screen-on time when we ran our tasking battery benchmark,
putting it comfortably ahead of any other flagship big-screen phone or
phablet we've tested at the moment.
As mentioned, this is more than any other flagship we've measured so far - phone or phablet - and even more than the Ascend Mate7, which comes equipped with a whopping 4100 mAh juicer, while the Z3 has an "only" 3100 mAh piece in a 7.3mm thin waterproof body.
The Z3 battery endurance is also better than the one of the Z2,
which already has a great battery life, so kudos to Sony here - it
managed to squeeze much more life out of a tad smaller battery, compared
to the Z2, and make a truly "two-day battery". The charging time, on
the other hand, is much longer than the average, at close to four hours
with the paltry stock 850 mA charger.
If you
think that what Sony did is by accident, then a simple look at our top
ten endurance champs will tell you that this is not the case. Sony
phones are currently occupying six of the top ten slots in our battery
benchmark ranking, and these range from low-ends, like the Xperia C, through midrangers like the slim T3,
all the way to the Xperia Z3 flagship. The "culprit" must be Sony's
displays, which might not be the best out there when it comes to color
representation and viewing angles, but are apparently using an extremely
frugal technology, and screens are the pesky components with the
highest battery consumption in our smartphones, so kudos to Sony here.
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