iPhone 12 Pro Max, Huawei Mate 40 Pro, Mi 10 Ultra battery drain test Mrwhosetheboss and TechNick By Mark Li

So, so far, the iPhone 12 lineup has been second time so, so far the iPhone 12 lineup has had pretty mixed battery life, but the one phone we haven't tested yet is the big boy, the iPhone 12 Pro max. So these are some of the best phones. You can buy right now from many companies compared, so we've got the iPhone 12 Pro max. We've got last year's iPhone 11 Pro max just for a point of reference. The Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra the Huawei Mate 40 pro the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra and the OnePlus 8 pro wow. These names are getting crazy so after fully calibrating the brightness of each display and setting the Wi-Fi on Bluetooth on and speakers off, it's time to unplug and go now.

I have to say that the battery capacities we're seeing on this table right now are kind of impressive they're. The most impressive we've ever had in a battery test, but isn't it also kind of weird how in-sync these android phones are in terms of capacity? It's almost like they had a little chat before releasing their phones to make sure they were all completely aligned. The one phone that sticks out from that is the new iPhone. The iPhone 12 Pro max has not just the smallest capacity of the bunch, but also less capacity than last year. It is only an estimate, but that estimate does suggest that you're getting 3 687 William hours of capacity on this new phone, which yes is about 7 less raw battery than the iPhone 11 Pro max, and if you take a look at the battery indicators right now, it is already being slightly out competed.

There are two ways: you could look at it. You could either think well apple's giving us less battery than last year that sucks, or you could look at it as well. The iPhone 11 Pro max was incredible for battery, and this is only seven percent less. So it's fine I'd be curious to know which side of that fence you sit on now. You know the hardest part of making this entire comparison.

It was deciding what display settings to put the phones on, because every one of the android phones you see here has multiple options for both resolution and refresh rate and there's nothing. I can set it to that's going to make every single person happy. Some people want this test to be well put all the phones on maximum resolution. Some people want it to be keep everything on its default settings, but the conclusion I came to be a sort of middle ground. Every phone here is on its default resolution, but it's on its maximum refresh rate, because for a lot of these android phones with high refresh rate displays that refresh rate is one of their core selling points, so I didn't feel like it would be representative to not use it.

So that means that, in this test, the iPhones are running at the highest resolutions, but the lowest refresh rates, and they're losing, and if this continues it's a big result, because the iPhone 11 Pro max really is a monster. I've been using it as my main phone for, like almost eight months now, and it's lasted me every day. Without fail, so it says something about this new wave of super high-end, android phones and here's, why I think they're performing so well, you see, you know when the first phones came out with super high refresh rate displays they kind of bombed in terms of battery life, because, of course, all of a sudden having to double the rate at which your screen refreshes is a massive drain on resources. But then companies realize something they realize that wait a second. We only need to turn on high refresh rate in applications where it's obvious, so these android phones, they probably will refresh 90 or 120 times per second, when you're on your home screen and scrolling through apps, but most of the time within applications.

They won't like right now playing this fairly simple tower defense game. The galaxy notes display is actually refreshing only 60 times per second, and if you would pull up YouTube mobile and start watching a video that was filmed at 30 fps. This will only refresh 30 times per second, which is actually going to be saving it battery with that said, every phone in this test right now is smashing it. I always say if a phone can get to five hours, that's good battery life, and it does look at least so far, that each of these phones is going to leapfrog, that it's great to see that the space has become so competitive that smartphone companies really have to give the consumers what it is that they've been asking for now, as well as being one of the longest videos I've ever filmed. This has also been one of the tightest if you look at these android phones, they're literally within one two percentage points of each other after three hours into this grueling battery test.

That is some insane level of coordination. Oh, also something else to note about the note: Samsung sells two versions of this phone one with an in-house Enos chip. That's the one we get here in the UK, that's the one you get in India, one with a Qualcomm chip, that's the one you get in the US, and I've tested both of these versions side by side. There is a big difference in terms of battery the Qualcomm. One is just more efficient so because, in this comparison I wanted it to be the best of the best, the clash of the titans I'm using the snapdragon version in this video.

So you just got to factor that in if you're, using this as a buying decision, if you're in India or if you're in the UK, expect about 10 less battery life than you see here. Okay, so it's been about four hours now we're jumping into some bright memory, which is one of the prettiest games. I think you can get on a smartphone, but that brings me onto something that I've actually struggled a bit with this test. It's finding representative applications that I can test on all these phones, because for this test, we've got a coater for not just apps available on iOS, but also android and Huawei, and Huawei not having google apps and not having a lot of the apps that rely on. Google apps have made that a bit trickier, and I should probably mention at this stage that the current workarounds Huawei has been not ideal.

The Huawei Mate 40 pro from a hardware perspective, is a phone that I really want to recommend, but the software is just in limbo. Right now so anyways, you might have noticed we're past the five-hour mark we're in the clear all of these phones have good baseline battery life, and now it's just a competition to see who's got the absolute best, and it's still very close between these androids Samsung and Huawei have crept up a little, but not enough that it's significant, but the gap between the iPhones has widened. There's now almost 10 percentage points in it. So we're running some among us for about an hour, and even though this is a game, I've actually found it to be quite light on the battery, just because it's so basic graphically and also because there's a lot of black in there, and you probably know that black when you've got an OLED display, means that your pixels can actually switch off and that saves battery okay. So we've just passed the six-hour mark it's time to up the intensity even more.

The iPhones are clinging in there and do you know what? So? This is something I've actually noticed about iPhone battery. I've tested enough of these phones that I'm convinced that apple's battery indicator doesn't decrease at a uniform rate. It lies to you. I'm convinced that at the start, it tells you it's on 100 for longer than it actually is, even when the battery has actually fallen a little, and they probably do that. Just to give you an initial sense of confidence to avoid that feeling of hey, I just charged my phone.

How is it going down already and then after 100 apple battery falls quite quickly, but then I think it slows down again towards the end, which would again make sense, because it gives you time to scramble around and get your charger and that's about right now on these iPhones. So we've opened up 3d bench, and this actually goes on for a surprisingly long time before, eventually the iPhone 12 Pro max calls it a day. I carried on benchmarking for a little longer and then opened up YouTube mobile notice, YouTube mobile, being the YouTube browser, because the Huawei phone doesn't support the YouTube application, and you'll notice, something funny about the Galaxy Note's display. I mean for starters, the brightness. Even though I'd fix the Galaxy Note's display at a specific point, it seems to fluctuate a little of its own accord and secondly, there's like a weird banding going on and that's my camera reacting to the fact that the Galaxy Note has actually switched its refresh rate right now.

It's only running at 30 hertz, because the video being played is only at 30 hertz. So this is super efficient on Samsung's part, okay, second iPhone's gone, and from this point I play well, I tried to play four games of chess at the same time, 3d chess on these phones. This actually goes on for a while, and I open up a couple more applications, but you've probably seen enough. I'm going to fast-forward it to the end, and we'll get to the results. Okay, so in sixth place the iPhone 12 Pro max the result speaks for itself.

This has the least battery of all the ultra phones, but at the same time, just bear in mind that seven hours is still what I'd call exceptional, so the phone does deserve to be in this tier in fifth place, iPhone 11 Pro max, which lasted a full half an hour longer. So I would say that this is the kind of difference that you'll notice, but also the kind of difference. I won't be a dealbreaker so say you are trying to pick between the 11 pro max and the 12 pro max. The 12 pro max is still a better phone overall. Okay, then, in fourth place is the Huawei Mate 40 pro, and I don't even have a label for what to call a phone that lasts over eight hours, just because of how rare it's been so far.

So it's ludicrous that now at the end of 2020, that's fourth place. That said, of course, the battle was very close between these androids, so the OnePlus 8 pro in third place, did only last six minutes longer, which is close enough to be put down to margin of error as in, if you tested them again with completely different applications, it's close enough that Huawei could have also beaten, OnePlus and that's even more applicable between third and second place, with the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra. I really do love this phone. It's the best phone that Xiaomi makes I'm just curious. Why they put so much effort into making it special, but then only released it in China, and that leaves us with the Galaxy Note, with an additional 10 minutes on top of that, and although you can't exactly compare results between tests, because each one runs slightly different apps that makes this the highest ever recorded score on a battery test.

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We have been treated to the best of the best from ASUS, Xiaomi and Samsung, along with the new 5 nanometer process, node powered smartphones, the Huawei, mate 40 and iPhone 12 series devices. But, more importantly, how does the new tech of 2020 compare to 2019's battery beast the iPhone 11 Pro max? Moreover, how does its successor the iPhone 12 Pro max competes in this real-life battery drain test? We have the smallest battery all the way on the left-hand side being the iPhone 12, and we have the largest cell all the way on the right being the ROG phone threes, massive six thousand million personal I've updated them all here to the latest available software rs14 on the iPhones android 10 on the android devices. I've also set all the android devices to 60 hertz over here to match that of the iPhone's stalemate.60 hertz displays I've dropped the resolution of the mate 40 pro and Samsung Galaxy note, 20, ultra 2, full HD plus to match that of the Apple devices which are sitting somewhere between full HD and HD, with the highest pixel density being on the iPhone 12 and 12 pro max and the lowest being on the note 20 ultra, I will be jumping through 15 different applications on every single device. We will also be testing out heat dissipation levels between each time interval. This is my real life battery drain test.

This is tech neck and without further ado. Let's go phones are currently plugged into charge here to top off at a hundred percent. Unfortunately, I had to buy separate charges for the iPhone 12 series devices. We're going to be using a thermometer gun here to test out all the phones. Temperatures per each interval with a room temperature of around 25.8 degrees in Celsius. Testing out the heat at the start of the test isn't very accurate, since this is more so heat dissipation.

When it comes to charging, nevertheless, we're going to hit a start on that counter. At the right hand, side over there unplug all the devices, and we do indeed have the time interval timer at the top right-hand corner, which is in relation to the percentage below the branding and above each device below the percentage reading at the top of the screen. We have the interval degrees in Celsius, as well as the peak which we'll get to the interval, will change from charging to interval based as soon as we hit the first interval, which we're getting to right now. After just 31 minutes, we have 95 on the iPhone 12, which is matching the note 20 ultra 98 on the 2 pro max devices, 99 impressively on the mate 40 pro with a 4 400 William power cell. The 10 ultra matching that at 99 and the ROG phone 3 hasn't even made a struggle still sitting at 100 over here, we're nearing the one-hour mark and for those of you needing to brush up your knowledge of all these devices, we have some specs at the bottom of the screen.

In case you forgot about that 89 on the iPhone 12 after the one-hour mark interval, you know, 20 ultra is doing slightly better than that. A much bigger battery at that, though, with 91 percent those seconds to last. Third to last is the iPhone 12 Pro max with 93 percent ahead of that the iPhone 11 Pro max with 94, then the 10 ultra, then the mate 40 pro matching the ROG phone 3, so the m840 pro with a significantly smaller battery than the ROG phone 3, is doing quite well with the nine ultra so far being the hottest and the ROG phone 3 being the coolest after the 1 hour and 30 minute, mark interval 81 on the iPhone 12 10 below that of the 10 ultra between those two devices. We have the note 20 ultra above that the mate 40 pro the 12 pro max and 11 pro max are trading blows both at 86, and we have 93 percent on the ROG phone 3 here still leading the pack. We do have the current app that we're in at the moment, at the bottom right-hand corner it's.

Just a shifter to checking battery stats, since we have hit that two hour mark interval 76 on the iPhone 12 82 on the note 20 ultra 81, now below the note 20 ultra is the iPhone 12 Pro max above that matching the note 20 ultra is the 11 pro max way, above that the mate 40 pro with 88 now beating the 10 ultra and above the rest, is the ROG phone three, just with a two percent gap between it and the Huawei smartphone over here, comparing seven nanometer plus tech on the dog, as opposed to five nanometer tech on the mate 40 pro bear in mind that the pro max does also have five nanometer processed node technology, the 12 pro max that is, and the 12 the 11 pro max is still stuck to 700 meters plus matching the rest of the android devices over here. So it'll be fascinating to see how efficient these new five nanometer nodes are compared to the predecessor technology. We're currently searching through AIDS on Instagram over here nearing the three-hour mark reaching that three hour mark interval. We have 64 on the iPhone 12 10 above. That is the note 20 ultra now with 74, which is now beating the 11 pro max and the iPhone 12 Pro max both on 73 and 70 respectively way, above that is the ni10 ultra two percent ahead of that is the mate 40 pro and four percent ahead of that now is the ROG phone three we're currently on YouTube now buzzing through some of my videos in a review playlist at the current moment, and we're going to be getting into that three hour.31 minute mark interval 58 on the iPhone 12 66 on the 12 pro max 69 on the 11 pro max beating the 12 pro max, but remember it does have a slightly bigger 3969 William. So as opposed to the small is, I guess you could say 3 687 William, but none of them can compare to the 4500 William cells on the Samsung and Xiaomi, or even that crazy massive 6000 William on the ROG phone 3.

The highest peak has indeed been the 11 pro max with the hottest current device interval temperature, the mi 10 ultra and the coolest on the dog. But in that four hour, one minute interval. We have the iPhone 11 Pro max, still hottest peak meter, ultra still hottest interval and the rock phone 3 still coolest, of both currently in a selfie video 1080p 30fps, so that they're all matched over here, and we have 54 on the iPhone 12, almost nearing that 50 mark six percent ahead with that not much difference between the two, the 12 pro max four percent ahead of that the 11 pro max and now, after the four hour 30 minute interval, we have the 11 pro max 4, still ahead of the 12 pro max, the iPhone 12, the only one below 50 and 46 over here, the ROG phone 3, not budging with 73, which is now more than 10 ahead of the mate 40 pro, which was not the case earlier on in the test, and we're currently recording main video 4k 30fps. The only reason I keep it at 30fps is to match all previous battery drain tests that I've done. I keep all the timings the exact same and I keep the screen brightness.

At the same as I showed you at the start, with the lux luminous meter. The only reason that the 12 pro max looks slightly dumb at the current moment is because it started overheating and iPhones aren't known to dim their displays to cool down if they're getting too hot, as you can see, with the century benchmark run. All the iPhones over here have started to dim now we're jumping into 3d mark the wildlife stress test and, as it says over here with all benchmarks. The reason why I do benchmarks is not to drain the phones quickly and get done with the test. I can assure you this test is longer than you assume, but it is more so that we can compare the devices when simulating a real high, hitting gaming benchmark, such as a 3d mark wildlife and 2 2 or GFX bench after the five and a half hour interval we're nearing the end for the iPhone 12 at 23.

More than 10 ahead of that is the 12 pro max a lot more ahead of that is the 11 pro max with 41 pretty much neck and necks against the mate 40 pro, even though it has a slightly bigger battery 38 very disappointing on the note 20 ultra after running a couple benchmarks: 40 percent on the mi 10 ultra, not too good. Now almost matching the 11 pro max after six hours in one minute, with 30 on the meter and ultra 29 on the 11 pro max 25 on the 12 pro max, which is nearing the 11 pro max now, 11 left on the iPhone 12. The ROG phone 3 is the only one still in yellow here above the 50 mark, which is impressive, to say the least, we're nearing the 6 hours and 30 minute interval we're already past what I regard as excellent screen on time when it comes to battery life 7 for the iPhone 12. After that 6 hour, 30 minute interval 21 for the 12 pro max much more than the 12 at the start of the test. They were actually pretty similar, but as we go forward, you can see that the 12 pro max is doing better and now narrowing the gap between it and its predecessor.

The 11 pro max with 24 the coolest device interval was the iPhone 12 with the coolest peak being the 12 pro max. The hottest peak and hottest interval is the 10 ultra with reaching a peak of almost 60 degrees in Celsius. You could literally boil an egg on it. After seven hours, exactly the iPhone 12 says cheers to us with an ending temp of 40.2 degrees in Celsius, not too bad and checking the seven hour. Two minute mark interval would have been seven hours, but the iPhone 12 had to say goodbye to us before we could get to that.

We have 15 on the 12 pro max, obviously 15, ahead of its little brother, the 12, but four percent behind its predecessor, the 11 pro max 24 on the mate 40 pro now significantly better than the note 20 ultra and me 10 ultra, but 20 more than the mate 40 pro is indeed the ROG phone 3, which is now hitting 41 after 7 hours and 30 minutes notice that the iPhone 12 William hour per minute reading is ridiculously low at 6.7 William hours. We'll compare this as more phone start to knock off. It does such an excellent time. Its only drawback is its tiny battery. If they were to increase this battery capacity would definitely do better.

The note 20 ultra obviously passing five percent there, since I needed to boost up its brightness when it comes to its display, it tends to dim after five percent. I got it back to the same lux meter reading as we did at the start of the test. After the eight-hour mark interval, we have one percent or zero percent on the note 20 ultra after eight hours and one minute this time around with 44.4 degrees in Celsius. At the end here, as you can see, it lasted a lot longer than the iPhone 12 an hour to be exact, but it got a worse William hour per minute reading than the iPhone 12 with 9.35. It does have a bigger battery, and that is why, because the iPhone is such a small battery, it actually did a record-breaking time of more than seven hours after eight hours and thirty minutes.

Two percent left on the twelve pro max four percent ahead of that its predecessor, the eleven pro max with six percent, absolutely great nine percent on the mate 40 pro and the meteor ultra just said us: zero percent after eight hours and 31 minutes not too shabby over there for Xiaomi 42.5 degrees in Celsius. At the end, the hottest ending result is indeed the note 20 ultra when it comes to temps the 12 pro max just knocked out what we've been waiting to see after 8 hours and at 39 minutes, not what I was expecting. I was hoping that we would reach that 9 hour mark, but it does have a slightly smaller battery than its predecessor, the 11 pro max, which I assume will knock out next, we'll have to wait and see it between it and the mate 40 pro as the ROG phone 3 is just in a league of its own 3 on the 11 pro max and 6 on the mate 40 pro after nine hours. They both made it to that nine hour. Mark interval guys we're now recording selfie video once again at 1080p 30fps, which one is going to take second place between the 11 pro max and the mate 40 pro.

Of course, we know the ROG phone 3 will come out on top but which one will it be. It is indeed the iPhone 11 Pro max, with 9 hours and 12 minutes, with an ending temp of 41.3 degrees in Celsius and just a minute after that, the mate 40 pro with 9 hours and 13 minutes. As you can see the William hour per minute. Reading of the iPhone 11 Pro max is better than the mate 40 pro because it has a smaller battery, and it pretty much ended. At the same time, the iPhone 12 Pro max has an even better William power reading than its predecessor, the 11 pro max at 7.1, because it has a smaller battery than that as well, though not quite as good as the iPhone 12. It doesn't seem to be as efficient as that, but remember it has a much larger screen, and it also has a much larger screen, while a slightly larger screen at 6.7 inches, as opposed to 6.5 inches on its predecessor after 10 hours. We have reached the 10-hour mark on the ASUS ROG phone 3 19 of juice still left in the tank.

That is absolutely remarkable best. Second, to that is indeed the mate 40 pro with 9 hours and 13 minutes and, of course, the 11 pro max, which did indeed beat its successor, the 12 pro max with over 9 hours of screen on time, which is great 10 hours, 30 minutes on the ROG phone 3 now with 16 left. This is absolutely insane. I've decided not to jump between different benchmarks this time around, because when your phone is nearing its end, you more so want to watch some videos or reply to some tweets or just use social media in general. So that is what I'm doing, and that is what we're going to get into more after this, or maybe even take some snaps 11 hours guys.

This is the first phone on my channel. We have hit 11 hours with 12 of juice left in the tank. The ROG phone 3 just passed 10 hours in my last test when testing it at 60 hertz, and now it is past the 11-hour mark interval. How much further can it go? This is insane. I must say that one of the main reasons for this: let's get to this first 11 hours, 30 minutes, seven percent left one of the main reasons.

It is doing better. This time round, I think, is because x mode tends to auto on even when apps are not set in the armory crates and are not set to use x mode in my previous test. Sometimes it would just sneak in, I made 100 sure to always disable x mode with every benchmark in every game over here, and that is why we have two percent left after 12 damn hours. This is absolutely insane 12 hours and two minutes the ASUS ROG phone 3 comes in at that is ridiculously impressive, with an ending temp of 40 degrees in Celsius, the coolest, of course, being the 12 pro max. The hottest end result being the mate 40 pro, but the hottest peak being the mi 10 ultra and the coolest peak being the iPhone 12 Pro max seventh place here, the iPhone 12 with seven hours on the nose.

It's still an absolutely incredible battery monster for such a tiny battery sole sixth place. We have the Samsung Galaxy note, 20 ultra with an impressive eight hours and one minutes of screen on time, of course, a much bigger battery than the iPhone 12 before it. It still did a great job. Nonetheless, the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra same battery capacity. As the note 20 ultra did 30 minutes better than that at 8 hours and 31 minutes great job on new Xiaomi.

In fourth place. We have the iPhone 12 Pro max now, surpassing that incredible battery life stage of eight hours and 39 minutes with a smaller cell than the previous android devices. I just mentioned third place its predecessor very strange, the iPhone 11 Pro max, so it does have a slightly larger battery than it nine hours and 12 minutes is still ridiculously impressive. Second place we're nearing that territory now, which can be unstoppable. The m840 pro 9 hours and 13 minutes much bigger saw than the 11 pro max, but just one minute longer lasting first place the all-time battery king of my channel, the ASUS ROG phone 3.

I didn't think it could do better than 10 hours, but here we're sitting at 12 hours and two minutes, but it does have a massive 6000mah battery to boot and when we take a look at the screen on time result of all the phones previously tested on my channel, of course, the rot phone 3 is right at the top. The Redmi k30 pro zoom edition is still in second place over there, so Xiaomi is still in rank number two. The mate 40 pro did an absolutely superb job, but I must say the same for the 11 pro max. Of course, the iPhone 12 Pro max didn't do a bad job, though not quite as good as its predecessor. Now, if all these smartphones had the same six thousand William hour cell as the ROG phone three, the iPhone 12 would get a whopping 15 hours almost.

That is absolutely insane, and that is due to its 6.7 William hour per minute. Reading over here, of course, the 12 pro max would actually do a better job with the same size sol as the 11 pro max, since it had a slightly better milliampere per minute reading. I hope that you guys enjoyed watching this video as much as I did. Making it a sub to the channel would be fantastic. This is technic, and I'll, see you in the next one.

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