Apple caught cheating on battery life (but it's not the only one)

It should not surprise anyone to discover that the values ​​declared by smartphone manufacturers regarding device autonomy are not exactly corresponding to reality.

Producers are usually "optimistic", but not directly liars: in fact the official values ​​refer to specific conditions of use that do not easily occur when smartphones are in users' hands.

According to a study conducted by wich? however, there is no way and way of presenting this difference. Indeed, to be honest the case of Apple would be particularly striking, given that apparently the Cupertino company is a bit crafty when it comes to indicating the iPhone's autonomy.

The tests conducted have in fact revealed that while Apple declares that the iPhone XR offers a talk time of up to 25 hours, in reality users have only 16 hours and 32 minutes: in short, Apple indicates a battery life that is 31% better than it really is.

31% indicated by Which? it does not refer only to the iPhone XR: it is an average obtained by testing various iPhone models, all of which have in common an autonomy declared superior to the real one.

Apple is not the only one not to be precise in this field, even if the competition is definitely not in the same conditions. HTC, for example, also overestimates the battery life of its devices, but not by much: instead of the declared 20 and a half hours, the tests recorded 19.6 hours.

More surprising is perhaps the fact that even in other situations the measurements do not correspond to the declarations, but because the declarations underestimate the durations.

This is the case, for example, of Samsung, Nokia and Sony, which all indicate a lower autonomy than measured. Indeed, in the case of Sony the Xperia Z5 compact model worked for 25 hours and 52 minutes when it was expected to throw in the towel after 17 hours.

expected to throw in the towel after 17 hours.

Translated from Italian: Edvin Breshta