Tech Advisor - UK (2020-04)

104 TECH ADVISOR • APRIL 2020

COMPARISON

The results are pretty close, but those percentage

points add up over the course of a day, especially

because most people won’t be using their phones

to watch videos for 10 hours straight. And look what

happened when I ran the same video a second time

with auto- and adaptive brightness turned on for all

three phones, tracking the battery drain:

Apple iPhone 11: 13 percent

OnePlus 7T: 18 percent

Samsung Galaxy S10+: 19 percent

Google Pixel 4 XL: 20 percent

Apple’s advantage comes into play when iOS starts

working its magic. Even with a significantly smaller

With giant screens and lots of

pixels, the OnePlus 7T (left),

Galaxy S10+ (centre), and Pixel 4

XL (right) all have giant batteries