| famousringo said: Not hard to figure out how this test was misleading. By setting brightness to maximum, you handicap a phone just for having a more powerful backlight. The iPhone 5 display is twice as bright at maximum as the SGS3:
Which is why Anandtech calibrates all displays to 200 nits before doing battery tests like this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/13
Now the iPhone 5 on 3G lands between two different SGS3 SKUs on 3G, and gains almost double battery life if you put it on an LTE network. As for market share, Android certainly has it. Not really sure if it's doing any good, since even Google seems to make more money from iOS than they do from Android: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/29/google-earns-more-iphone-android Assertions that any day now developers are going to make Android their lead mobile platform sound an awful lot like Wii fans like me in 2008. Desite iOS being a "niche player," Apple and their software partners are still growing and still making more money in mobile than anybody else. The App Store is grossing $5.8 billion per year now. |
I can second this test. On a normal day, my iPhone 5 is put away for the night with between 1/2 to 1/3 of its battery left. If I use it heavily throughout the day, I can kill the battery right around the time I go to sleep. At my current contract job, I have a ~45 minute bus ride each direction and my phone goes from 6:30am-9:30pm off the charger (15 hours).
Considering its package size, screen, and resolution, the iPhone 5's battery life is pretty stellar.
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