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.
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