ISSUE 64 • ANDROID ADVISOR 95ROUND-UPBattery life
Fewer pixels is again an advantage from a power
perspective. With normal use, the G7 Power lived up
to Motorola’s claim of 60 hours. You’d need to charge
it halfway through that second day, of course, but
with light use and the battery saver mode, we found
this could be stretched to three whole days without
making ridiculous compromises.
In the Geekbench 4 battery test, it lasted an
amazing 14 hours, two minutes which is almost
2.5 hours longer than the Huawei Mate 20 Pro –
previously the longest-lasting phone we’ve ever
tested. Naturally, heavy use will drain the battery a
lot faster. Playing Pokémon Go, for example, empties
the 5,000mAh cell at a rate of roughly 12 percent per
hour. But this should still equate to a whole day of
gaming without having to carry a power bank, and
that’s quite an achievement.
Motorola bundles an 18-watt TurboPower charger,
which it says gives nine hours of use from a 15-minute
charge when empty. We found that it charged up to
40 percent in half an hour and took well over two
hours for a full charge. And you’ll want to carry the
bundled cable and charger as the G7 Power is very
finicky about which chargers and cables it likes. We
tried various USB-C cables with it, and it flat out
refused to charge with some of them, and some
wobbled around in the socket as if it were too big.
Likewise, it would only trickle charge in some USB
wall sockets – the type that are built into the faceplate
- and wouldn’t fast charge even from 15-watt sockets.
It really needs those extra three watts.