I don’t know when it starts, but mobile phones seem to have become part of our lives. When we contact people, we will take out our mobile phones; when we relax and entertain, we will also take out our mobile phones; when we pay for things, we still have to take out our mobile phones. In the era of
feature phones, it is normal for Nokia to standby for a few days to more than ten days. However, after entering the era of smart phones, it is difficult for a day to use the battery power of a mobile phone. It’s no wonder that the mobile phone functions are getting stronger and stronger, the chip power consumption is getting higher and higher. We spend more and more time playing with mobile phones, and the charging frequency of mobile phones is naturally getting higher and higher.
If you want to solve the battery life problem, large batteries and high charging power are very important. When the OPPO R7 was launched in 2015, it called the slogan "Five minutes to charge and two hours to talk". To this day, fast charging power is getting higher and higher, and manufacturers are promoting battery life optimization technology more and more. So how is the battery life of mobile phones now?
Practice is the only standard for testing the truth . This time, Xiao Lei will test the latest flagships of the four major domestic mobile phone brands to verify the battery life and charging speed of their products. The four mobile phones selected by Xiao Lei are OPPO Find X5 Pro (5000mAh), vivo X80 Pro Dimensity Edition (4700mAh), Honor Magic4 Pro (4600mAh), and Xiaomi 12 Pro (4600mAh). They will pass a four-hour heavy battery life test to test their battery life.
is used severely for four hours, is it really stressful?
First talk about test environment and projects, under WiFi, 100% brightness, highest resolution, highest refresh rate, run Bilibili , Weibo , " Peace Elite ", and " King of Glory " for one hour each. Among them, in the "Peace Elite" test, the game is set to HDR HD + extreme frame rate , and in the "Honor of Kings" test, the game is set to ultra-high resolution + ultra-high frame rate. The test results for
brushing Weibo for 1 hour are as follows. Since the three units have 2K 120Hz screens, the Honor Magic4 Pro is also nearly 2K 120Hz screens, so the power consumption is generally higher than the 1080P 60Hz screens in previous years. After scrubbing Weibo for one hour, the power consumption is more than 10%. In this test, Xiaomi 12 Pro and Honor Magic4 Pro performed the best. It seems that after MIUI was criticized by netizens, Xiaomi has really changed a lot, and the battery life optimization is much better than before.
Magic4 Pro is also good to optimize, and the screen resolution is lower than the other three models, so the battery life is also good. However, OPPO Find X5 Pro, as the largest battery capacity among the four mobile phones, has a slightly inferior battery life.
In the one-hour video playback test of B station B, the best performer was OPPO Find X5 Pro, followed by Xiaomi 12 Pro. Unlike Weibo, the video playback environment is more unified, and all four mobile phones play the same number of episodes of the same drama. In this case, the advantages of the large battery of OPPO Find X5 Pro are revealed. The power consumption is only 7% for one hour of playing videos.
Games are a testing environment with relatively high power consumption. Today, when the mobile game industry is becoming more and more prosperous, users are also particularly concerned about the battery life of the mobile phone in the game. In the Peace Elite test, the situation changed again, with the Dimensity versions of OPPO Find X5 Pro and vivo X80 Pro performing best. As the only Dimensity flagship, the vivo X80 Pro Dimensity version allows us to see the battery life of MediaTek . The battery is 300mAh, but it is tied for the two players with the OPPO Find X50 Pro. The more you go to the back, the more obvious the advantage of large battery capacity is. Although OPPO Find X5 Pro lags behind in the first test, the next few items have achieved overtake. The two mobile phones with the smallest battery capacity, Xiaomi 12 Pro and Honor Magic4 Pro, performed well in the first test, but the advantages will no longer be obvious in the future.
In the 1-hour test of "Honor of Kings", OPPO Find X5 Pro still maintained its leading position, and the vivo X80 Pro Dimensity version and Xiaomi 12 Pro performed comparable. However, the power consumption of high frame rate mode in Honor of Kings is much higher than expected by Xiao Lei, because it used to be 60 frames, and it felt that the power consumption was not high. After turning on 90 frames, the power consumption in one hour was actually around 20%.
Overall, in the 4-hour heavy battery life test, OPPO Find X5 Pro performed the best overall, vivo X80 Pro is almost the same as Xiaomi 12 Pro, and is tied for second place. Several mobile phones performed well in battery life optimization, and the conservative scheduling strategy of OPPO highlighted its advantages. In addition, the large 5000mAh battery successfully won the championship.
Considering from the perspective of daily use, there is no problem with using these mobile phones for a day. After all, no one will hold their phones to browse Weibo, play games all day long, and have to work and eat. If you are a heavy mobile phone user, you will not let go of your hand when holding your mobile phone, especially for users who like to play games, you may have to charge it once every half a day. Fortunately, the charging power of these mobile phones is not low.
40W power difference, how much difference is in charging time?
Let’s talk about the charging power of these phones first. The highest power is Xiaomi 12 Pro, reaching 120W. Secondly, Honor Magic4 Pro, with a charging power of 100W, and OPPO Find X5 Pro and vivo X80 Pro Dimensity versions are both 80W.
As expected, in this charging test, the Xiaomi 12 Pro was the fastest full, and it took only 26 minutes. It is worthy of 120W, and half of the battery is charged in 10 minutes. Only in the last 5 minutes can we see the shadow of trickle charging, but it is just a shadow, and it will soon be completely filled.
Interestingly, the battery charge of Honor Magic4 Pro is not as good as the 80W OPPO Find X5 Pro and vivo X80 Pro in the first 25 minutes. It took only a few minutes to overtake. In the end, it was completely filled in 34 minutes and achieved a good result of second place.
vivo X80 Pro Dimensity Edition is the third phone to complete charging, but it is only 2 minutes faster than OPPO Find X5 Pro. Considering that the battery capacity of the two phones is 300mAh different, the charging speed can be said to be basically no difference. Although the charging speed of Find X5 Pro is slower, it is a 5000mAh battery after all, which is acceptable. Moreover, it charges 55% of the battery in 16 minutes, which is more than enough for emergency response.
In terms of charging time, Xiaomi 12 Pro is leading a lot. The gap between the other three phones is not big, just a few minutes. It has been more than half an hour anyway, so there is no need to care too much about the difference between 100W and 80W.
In this test, Xiaomi 12 Pro generates a higher heat when charging, which makes it feel hot. Find X5 Pro has the lowest heat, with only a little warmth. As the earliest mobile phone company in China to develop fast charging technology, OPPO seems to be a little behind in the 5G era, and the commercialization of 100 watt fast charging and 100 watt wireless charging are slightly later.
In fact, OPPO also knows that fast charging technology is a good gimmick, but they pursue experience more and are unwilling to be commercialized too early when the temperature and safety are not controlled to perfection. In the competition for charging technology, Xiaomi is the most aggressive. 120W wired fast charging and 100W wireless fast charging have been taken out. I wonder what kind of surprises will be brought to Xiaomi 12 Ultra and MIX 5 in the second half of this year.
manufacturer, has it cured our battery life anxiety?
Today, when our lives cannot be separated from electronic products, the battery life anxiety is very serious, especially when facing mobile phones that we can hardly leave, Xiao Lei will immediately plug the phone into the charger when he sees the battery is less than 40%. In fact, Xiao Lei himself also knows that even if the battery is only 40%, it is enough for me to use it for a long time, just because I am worried about emergencies that are basically impossible, so I have to keep the battery of my mobile phone at a higher level.
In order to alleviate the battery life anxiety of users, mobile phone manufacturers have launched fast charging technology, shortening the charging time from several hours in the 5V/1A era to less than 1 hour. After the 120W fast charging is released, some models can be fully charged in just over 20 minutes. Even if you are in a hurry to go out, just plug in the charger. While you are ready to go out, your phone will be charged with a high enough battery.
However, some netizens believe that mobile phone manufacturers' pursuit of fast charging power is a bit too much. Apple currently has the highest charging power mobile phone iPhone 13 series, which is only 14.5V/2A, or even less than 30W.Although the charging power of the iPhone is not high, the iPhone's battery life has always been better than Android phones under the same battery capacity.
As a user of Apple, Xiaomi and vivo, she has experienced the battery life and charging of flagships of major brands. Xiao Lei believes that fast charging technology is indeed not a necessity. Whether at home or in the company, Xiao Lei can find a place to charge, and he will not pay special attention to the speed or slow charging power. If he wants to travel far, he will carry a power bank with him.
High power charging is good, and it is more important to optimize battery life. After all, the former requires finding a charging environment. Only by optimizing battery life and extending usage time can manufacturers bring a better experience to users and treat our battery life anxiety. For example, Apple has low charging power and a much smaller battery capacity than Android flagships, but its battery life experience is not inferior at all.
Of course, fast charging with a certain power must be available. It can be compressed to within 40 minutes by about 65W, which is not much different from 80W. As long as you can charge about 50% of the battery in about twenty minutes, it is enough to face the emergency needs of most scenarios.
charging power is too fast, and the heat will be more obvious when charging the phone, and the experience will be poor when playing and charging. Because of this, although OPPO and vivo have fast charging technology of more than 100 watts, they are not equipped with the Find series and X series. Perhaps we can wait until they solve the heating problem of super 100W fast charging, so we can see the 100W fast charging on OPPO and vivo's flagships. With the fast charging technology strength of these two companies, I believe that that day will not come too late.
