ISSUE 46 • ANDROID ADVISOR 15REVIEWBattery life
The Pixel 2 has an adequate
2,700mAh non-removable
battery, which is about as
much juice as Google could
squeeze into such a slim
device. It charges via the
supplied USB-C fast charger,
and I saw excellent charging
speeds particularly from
empty to about 60 percent
in around half an hour.
Google claims you can get
seven hours of use out of a
15-minute charge which I am
dubious about. I’ll update this
review with more observations
the more I use the device, but
at the moment the phone is
usually getting me through a
whole day starting at 100 percent at 8am and ending
up with about 15 percent by 10pm, which is great.
On another day though, I used the phone for just
shy of nine hours before it hit 20 percent, recording
under three hours of screen on time which isn’t
amazing. Hopefully, long-term use will prove less
erratic, but if battery life is your concern you’ll want
the 3,250mAh Pixel 2 XL. Battery saver mode can be
toggled on and off in the notification shade and if you
go into the battery section in settings it’ll even tell you
which apps are caning your battery and, excellently, let
you action it straight away rather than just close it.