iPhone 12 mini vs. iPhone 12 Battery Test By PhoneBuff

The iPhone 12 mini is no doubt the best small iPhone apple has released in years, but in terms of its battery life, the 2227 William hour capacity doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. The standard iPhone 12 battery is over 25 percent larger than that and while the mini does have a smaller screen, which should consume less power than the 12's larger screen. I don't know if that'll be enough to make this battery test even remotely close, but hey, let's find out this video is sponsored by mine, the smart data assistant that lets you discover who has your data on the web and gives you the tools to keep that data only where you want it. I found that a whopping 648 companies had my personal data and with a new data breach every day, that's way more exposure than I need most of the companies. Furthermore, I don't even use anymore, for example, I haven't used Groupon in years, but they still have my financial and identity information. So with a single click, I can send a request to have the company delete that data automatically and boom.

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Now that could have just been a fluke we'll see if the same thing happens here in the email test, where we're not doing anything too intensive we're just opening and scrolling through the same set of emails. Where one hour later we get the same result. The two phones again perform identically, which I really wasn't expecting. I kind of figured that the smaller screen on the mini would help lower its power consumption and kind of make up for the smaller battery, but I didn't think it would cancel it out completely. However, things could be different here in the browser test, because, unlike the messaging and the email tests, this test is more processor intensive.

The screen isn't the only big factor here with each phone's a14 bionic chip actually being put to work having to load up the same set of websites where one hour later this time, the iPhone 12 mini, does do worse, dropping by 12 compared to the 9 drop on the standard, iPhone 12. So at least so far, it looks like when the display is the only big factor in a test. The smaller screen on the mini helps make up for the smaller battery almost perfectly, but when other factors are present like the modem in the earpiece and the phone test or the processor in the browser test, the smaller battery capacity on the mini starts to hurt it here on Instagram. The speakers are on mute, and we're not doing anything too intensive. We're just scrolling through the home feed like you, would in real life, so I expect a similar result where one hour later, that's exactly what we get with both phones dropping by an equal 9 so going into the standby test.

Here, the mini is only 8 points behind those eight points came from just two out of the five tests, but with the screens off for 16 hours in standby, it falls even further behind with the standard iPhone 12's bigger battery, helping it improve its lead to a full 10 percentage points here on youtube. The speakers are on this time with them calibrated to the same decimal accounts where that extra work of powering the speakers hurt the mini with it falling another four points behind, and things may get even worse for the mini here in the gaming test. Where not only are the speakers on, but this time the game will be taxing the processors as well, where one hour later, the mini drops below that 10 percentage mark with it only having 8 percent left compared to the healthy 25 percent on the standard, iPhone 12. So a big difference going into the maps test where, while the speakers aren't active here, the other sensors like the phone's GPS and compass are active, where, after just 40 minutes of simulated navigation, that eight percent on the mini drains completely while the standard iPhone 12 is at a calculated 18. So while the mini did well in some tests, where the display was the only real factor overall, the smaller battery capacity really hurt it.

Having 18 on one phone and zero on another is a pretty significant difference enough for the iPhone 12 to finish the maps test with 15 battery remaining, which allows it to go through an entire hour of Spotify, with still two percent left, meaning the iPhone 12 made it to the Snapchat test, the most intensive test in this entire battery comparison, although it only lasted for a minute and a half, bringing the standard iPhone 12's, total time to 25 hours and one minute, while the mini lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes less at 23 hours and 40 minutes. Overall, I would say it's not too bad for the mini, given how small the phone is, but a clear win for the iPhone 12 in this battery test. You can find the official rankings for all of our tests on our website at funbuff. com, but anyways. That is it for me in this video.

Thank you for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episode you.

Source : PhoneBuff