Sony Xperia ZR battery life test done by GSMARENA

By Vijay @ 01:35pm

As usual GSMARENA’s greatest asset of doing Battery Test, of latest mobile devices. Today its turn for Sony Xperia ZR.

The Sony Xperia ZR is the little brother of the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL, which can almost say as a mini version of Xperia Z series. Xperia ZR consists of 4.55″ 720p display, which should be kinder to the equally large 2300 mAh battery inside the phone.

Identical chipsets and batteries plus a smaller screen of lower resolution give the Xperia ZR every chance of beating its premium rivals.

The Sony Xperia ZR did 17 hours and 48 minutes of 3G calls before its 2300mAh battery went dead. That’s nearly 5 hours more than Sony officially says the phone is capable of, which is quite impressive on its own, but even more so considering that its better than the Xperia Z achievement by a bit over an hour and a half.

Web browsing time is equally good as Sony Xperia ZR tops everything we’ve ever tested by scoring 11 hours and 20 minutes. The combination of Chrome as a default browser and the smaller screen are probably to thank for this great result.

And in Video playback the Xperia ZR did alright, but nothing breathtaking. Thanks to its 720p screen it beat the 1080p display rocking Xperia Z (5:39) and Xperia ZL (5:28) by scoring two hours more – 7 hours and 30 minutes. That’s not a particularly impressive score, but it’s not half bad either.

Gsmarena ran the test with Mobile BRAVIA 2 turned on as how most users will be using their Xperia. Nevertheless, even with it switched off, the battery life wasn’t affected in a noticable way.

In the end, thanks to its efficient talk times and optimized web browsing, the Xperia ZR managed to pull off an endurance rating of 62 hours.

You can read more about how GSMARENA done the battery tests here.

Courtesy: GSMARENA

HTC One mini battery life test done by GSMARENA

By Vijay @ 09:21pm

As usual GSMARENA had done their regular & awesome job, batterytests of latest mobile devices, today its HTC ONE MINI.

The HTC One mini is exact xerox copy or clone of HTC One. It has a 1,800mAh Li-Po battery, compared to the 2,300mAh battery of the HTC One, but how that affects real-life performance.

 The tinnier battery has to feed a smaller, lower res screen (4.3″ 720p vs. 4.7″ 1080p) and a smaller CPU and GPU.

Talk time is unaffected, it has respectable 12 hours of talktime on 3G. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, which is a competing high-end mini, lasted an hour longer on its 1,900mAh battery.

Web browsing is much less forgiving, but the One mini scored near the top with a little over 8 hours. That’s less than the times for the HTC One, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4 mini, which all lasted almost 10 hours, but it is an hour more than the iPhone 4S.

The video playback time is around 7 hours and 23 minutes. That 720p screen is beautiful to watch and the BoomSound speakers sound sweet, but video playback really eats the battery. The HTC One lasted 10 hours in this test and the Galaxy S4 mini managed a very impressive 13 hours of playback.

In the end less than efficient standby hurts the endurance rating and the HTC One mini scored only 40 hours. Basically one day of moderate usage and the battery charge will be low enough to have you checking if you have enough left. 

If you don’t watch much video, or at all, on the phone than you should get a pretty decent run on a single charge with the One mini. Just don’t spend too much time browsing on 3G as that would deplete the battery quickly as well (Tests actually done on a Wi-Fi network).