OnePlus 8 Pro vs Samsung Galaxy Note 20 - Battery Comparison By DanieBoy's Tech

Hey guys and gals Danny boy here, and today I have the OnePlus 8 pro and the Samsung Galaxy note 20, and this is going to be my comparison here on the batteries on these phones. What my experience has been in using both of these phones is my daily drivers for a pretty substantial amount of time. Actually, currently, the 8 pro is my daily driver, and I use the Samsung, oh man for quite a while uh, at least a few months, if I remember correctly, um as my daily driver. So what I want to talk about are the batteries on these phones. So let's just go ahead and dive right into this, so OnePlus 8 pro we sport a 4510 William hour battery 4510, okay, pretty big there. I think pretty uh substantial size battery considering the size of the phone.

It's a pretty thin phone, though it is a tall, big phablet device here: okay, um, but we've got a big battery in there and as far as charging that comes with the phone, it comes with a 30 t warp fast charging, brick okay, so we do get wired fast charging here, and then you can also buy a proprietary wireless charger for the eight pro here, because it does have wireless charging. OnePlus introduced wireless charging on this phone last year in 2020, so we have that here, but it does do standard wireless charging as well. So that's nice, and we also have reverse wireless charging here as well to be able to charge things with it uh from the back. So it's kind of slow, I think like it is even on the Samsung, but it might be good in a pinch. Okay, uh spec wise for the Galaxy Note 20.

We have a 4300 William hour battery, so 43 double. Oh there, so a little less 210 less than the 8 pro um. You know it's a pretty standard size phone um doesn't feel super thin, but doesn't feel thick. So that's where we're at here we get a 25 watt charging brick in the box, with this phone's at 5 watts less than the 8 pro, but still pretty substantial there. If you like, corded charging, you can get a good top off here as well.

We also have reverse wireless charging. I think this is a little faster here, not much faster, but slightly faster here on the note 20. So that's where we're at here very similarly spec right um, but that's where the similarities sort of stop, because we've got different things going on with these phones. You know different things that are consuming the power right, so here we see that they both have always on display. So we know that's something: that's going to eat at our power and then, as far as displays in general.

Here we have a quad HD 120 hertz, refresh rate display on the 8 pro note, 20, quite a different story with its 1080p display at 60, hertz, okay, so it would seem we would have less power consumption here on the note 20 pretty substantial, because we only have a 1080p display, and we're only at 60 hertz, because I rock this thing maxed out the 8 pro I do run quad HD. I do run it at 120, hertz um, so that's kind of where we're at we got the snapdragon 865 processors. Here we have the 865 plus on the note 20. Um. So there again, you might think well.

The 865 plus might handle power a little better right because it's kind of a modest improvement over the 865. But is that the case? Okay? So all that being said, um, where what has my experience been in using these phones, so OnePlus 8 pro uh? Well, let me say just right off the bat in a general day, I'm off charge about 12 to 13 hours from the morning until the evening, and I'm a medium user about two to three hours of screen on time. Okay, so that's my usage, that's kind of what I'm doing OnePlus 8 pro by the end of the day I have about 60 percent battery life left. So I think that's good. It's not the best I've seen, but it's certainly good.

It means technically that if I forgot to charge my phone overnight that I should be able to get two full days just about perfectly with the eight pro here, so that's really pretty rock solid there. If you stop and think about it. So what's the story here on the note, 20, so same usage, you know 12 13 hours off charge two to three hours screen on time, medium usage. At the end of the day, I have about 50 battery life left on the note 20, and that kind of surprised me at first when I was first starting to use this phone. I was surprised that the battery life was only 50 left now.

My Samsung Galaxy s10e that I used for a long time that little phone would have 60 just like the OnePlus 8 pro here so and coming from that Samsung to this Samsung. I was surprised, um, the reasoning as to why that is the case. I honestly don't know because uh like I said, we have a higher pixel count here on the eight pro that I run higher refresh rate I run both with always-on displays. Furthermore, I personally would think that the note 20 here would be a champ and battery life, getting like 65 70 percent at the end of the day with my usage, but that's not what I see. So I don't know why that's the case, I really haven't been able to figure that out.

All I can figure is optimization of the battery uh OnePlus just does a phenomenal job, they're kind of like apple and that department they've always done a great job with optimizing the batteries on their phones Samsung. Whatever reason here it's just not the best I've seen 50 is still good. It's not bad um, but it's just kind of average right. It's not good or even excellent. Furthermore, it's just kind of okay, average um, but that's kind of where I'm at here uh, but that's plenty enough.

I mean having 50 left at the end of the day is fine um. If, if I forgot to charge my phone that buys me some time in the next day to find time to charge it. So it's not like I'll be out of business. If I forget to charge my phone, but it is what it is here, um so yeah I mean both phones, good battery life, but the winner. Definitely in this comparison is the OnePlus 8 pro um.

I do like that. They both include charging bricks. I like that they both have wireless charging, that, in spite of the fact that the Galaxy Note has a plastic back, they were still able to put the wireless charging in there. Like I said they both have the reverse wireless charging. I've never used it on either phone.

That's just not a feature that I really use, but it is there if you ever needed it. In a pinch, um, both phones have power saving modes um. Let me quickly look at that. If we go in here to battery saver, those are your options. I can turn it on.

I can schedule it that's kind of cool based on percentage. You can decide when it will come on. So that's nice, um, but yeah. That's your options, they're kind of basic! Let's look quickly at the note 20 here go down to battery here battery and device care. Okay, so power, saving mode, toggle, background usage: you can kind of go through different apps and put them to sleep and all that that can be tricky.

You got to be careful with that because it can cause stuff to malfunction, and this is your power-sharing more battery settings. Okay, so you got this stuff too, so that's kind of where we're at here they're, both relatively basic. If I do power saving mode, this is what I can set it to do. When I turn that on okay, so pretty big, I mean it's a little customizable there. I'd say a little more here on the Samsung, as you would expect, but uh yeah guys.

Those are my thoughts uh on the batteries on these phones. As always, if you're enjoying my videos be sure to subscribe to my channel, of course, hitting that thumbs up button, there helps out as well, but for now guys peace out.

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