Sony Xperia 1 III vs S21 Ultra / iPhone 12 Pro Max / OnePlus 9 Pro / Mi 11 Ultra Battery DRAIN Test! By TechNick

The Sony, Xperia 1 mark iii may very well be the first smartphone ever to sport, a 4k 120 hertz display, but just how taxing is that display in terms of battery life? Well, the good thing is that Sony have increased its battery capacity to 4500 Williams and puts it on par with the OnePlus 9 pros 4500 William hour battery. The bad thing is that even phones without a 4k display house, massive 5000mah batteries, namely the Samsung Galaxy s21, ultra and Xiaomi mi 11 ultra and while Apple's iPhone 12 Pro max, may have a significantly smaller battery. Io's's optimizations have proven to dominate in terms of battery life. In order to keep things even between these five premium flagship devices, I have made sure to use a lux luminous meter to keep all phones brightnesses. At the same level, all devices have been updated to their latest available software, and just one thing to point out here: the OnePlus 9 pro is running OPPO's calories software instead of oxygen OS, because OnePlus have decided to ship Chinese variants of the phone with OPPO's OS and since OnePlus recently announced its merger with OPPO. I won't be surprised if it's also going to change in the global market going forward.

All android devices are running android 11 with the new mini 12.5 on the Xiaomi and, of course the iPhone is rocking its latest iOS 14.6. You may see some service bars on the Samsung, but I can assure you that all phones are free of sim cards, so we'll be rocking them all. On the same Wi-Fi network, of course, the Xperia 1 mark 3's greatest highlights is that 4k display, while the Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus are all rocking who plus panels and the iPhone is running somewhere in between HD and full HD. This cannot be changed and while the iPhone is capped at a 60 hertz in terms of refresh rates, all other devices here are running all the way up to 120 hertz, with adaptive displays only seen on the Samsung and OnePlus. Can Sony's latest flagship keep up with some of the best android smartphones around in terms of battery life and can its larger battery capacity outshine the optimized iPhone 12 Pro max in this real-life usage battery drain test? This is tech, nick and without further ado, let's find out before we get going, it's worth checking out that all phones are capped at 100, they're, all currently plugged in charge, and we're actually plugged in charge.

For the same amount of time, I will be using an emissivity level of 0.05 in order to test the temperatures of all devices throughout the test when it comes to individual intervals and testing the amounts at the start. You can't really compare them much since they're all plugged in charge, so this is not really draining temperature at the start, but more so charging temps. Nevertheless, the iPhone is the coolest and the OnePlus is the hottest starting the test over here we have that timer interval at the top right-hand corner, which is in relation to the battery percentage below the branding of each device and above the phones, of course, that percentage only changes once we clock in the first time interval and the temps will also change alongside that moving into interval instead of charging. If you are rusty on specs at the bottom, I have a full list of specs over there. For you all to gawk your eyes at and after the first 30-minute mark interval, we have 94 on the Sony, which is trailing the pack here.

Just in front of that is the s21 ultra. Then we have the 11 ultra with 97 98 on the OnePlus, and it hasn't even moved a smudge on the iPhone still sitting at a rock solid hundred percent, with the iPhone staying, the coolest in terms of interval and peak and the me11 ultra is staying the hottest at the interval and peak the peak will change whenever it gets the hottest that will then stick, but the interval changes throughout the test. After the one-hour time interval, we have 89 on the Xperia one mark iii, which is now trading blows with the s21 ultra at the same percentage 91 on the m11 ultra only doing slightly better than those two 93 on the OnePlus 9 pro two percent better than the m11 ultra and still at the top. Is the iPhone 12 Pro max, not astounding, since it does such a great job in terms of optimization with its software and hardware and battery capacity. Even though it has the smallest cell around and after an hour and 30 minutes, we have 81 on the opera, which is now 2 below the s21 ultra and the s21 ultra is now three percent ahead of the mi 11 ultra.

The OnePlus 9 pro is six percent ahead of the 11 ultra three percent, ahead of the s21 ultra as well, and 91 on the iPhone 12 Pro max still leading the pack over here. For those of you who have not noticed at the bottom right-hand corner, I do showcase the current app and what we're doing within that app and after the two-hour mark interval, we have 75 on the Sony, Xperia 1 mark 3 79 on the s21 ultra and the mi 11 ultra is trading blows with the Xperia one mark iii at the same 75 percent 81 on the OnePlus 9 pro, even though it has a smaller battery than the Samsung. It is doing slightly better over here and still leading the pack, of course, no surprise the iPhone 12 Pro max, which is still keeping the internals nice and cool with 34.9 degrees in Celsius. In the last interval, as opposed to the mi 11 ultra, which is over 40 degrees in Celsius being the hottest of the test after the 2 hour and 30 minute mark interval, we have 69 from the Xperia one mark iii, which is now one percent behind the mean 11 ultras 70. We have 75 on the s21 ultra, which is almost matching the OnePlus 9 pro now with 76, of course, still leading the pack, the iPhone 12 for a max with 83, which is now still the coolest.

But the hottest in the last interval was the Sony and the hottest peak still overall, which sticks for now is the mi 11 ultra until another phone gets hotter than that throughout the entirety of the test. After three hours, we have 64 on the Sony 71 on the Samsung 73 on the OnePlus, still leading opposed to the Samsung and Sony and Xiaomi, which is now ahead of the Sony at 65 and once again still leading the pack. Here is the iPhone 12 Pro max, though slightly dropping a lot more quickly than it was earlier on in the test. We're reaching that three hour.30 minute mark interval and now that we have we're sitting at 57 on the Sony 10 behind the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra 67, which is now matching the OnePlus 9 pro 67, and the Sony and Xiaomi are once again pretty neck and neck here with 59 on the Xiaomi, as opposed to the 57 on the Sony 74 on the iPhone 12 Pro max, which is dropping pretty quickly. Now.

It is just seven percent ahead of the s21 ultra and OnePlus 9 pro, but you got to remember that it does have the smallest battery, but while it does have the smallest battery, it has the lowest refresh rate just at 60 hertz and the lowest resolution somewhere sitting between HD and full HD, where the others are all rocking HD panels or 4k, that being on the Sony and 120 hertz, which sucks up a hell of a lot of juice. Moving on to the camera app over here, we're recording selfie video at 1080p 30fps. Since the Sony is capped at this, and since all my previous tests that I have done, I have used selfie video 1080p 30fps. Even if phones do support 60 frames per second, when using selfie video recording, I try keep all my battery drain tests exactly the same so that you can compare the results across the entirety of my channel in the past two years. Remember you cannot compare this to other channels battery drain test, since we use different brightnesses and different apps on the phones, and you know different settings as well as full HD or HD 120hz or 60hz, so on and so forth, now recording main video 4k 30 fps for the same exact reason since I've kept it the same on all previous tests and the Sony can only go up to 4k 30fps when in its regular app it has to go into its photo or cinema pro app.

I should say in order to unlock 4k 60fps, make sure you check out my full review on the Sony, Xperia 1 mark iii. It is pretty interesting. I do absolutely adore the device, so it does have a few flaws reaching that 5 hour.30 minute. Mark interval with the iPhone 12 Pro max is still in the lead over here. The Xiaomi decided to go and overheat over there, no surprise that time around.

I thought this would be fixed with me on 12.5. I guess not 16 on the Sony, after 5 hours and 35 minutes, 19 on the 11 ultra hours and 35 minutes, of course, as well. Just three percent ahead of the Sony 33 on the Samsung, which is now three percent ahead of the OnePlus, is 30 and still leading the pack is the iPhone 12 Pro max with 41 and which is still the coolest device at 48.3 degrees in Celsius, as opposed to the Xperia reaching the highest interval and peak almost 57 degrees in Celsius. After the 5 hour, 30 minute mark interval hitting the six-hour mark interval. We have just five percent left on the Sony and two percent left on the m11 ultra, which is going to be the first o'clock out here.

Is the Sony going to triumph the massive battery mammoth me 11 ultra and yes, it does the Xiaomi 11 ultra clocks, archer, with six hours and five minutes, which is actually worse than my last test. When I ran me, while 12.0 instead of 12.5 this time around slightly disappointing there from Xiaomi, how much longer can the Xperia go, and it decides to say chest to us after six hours and 21 minutes, which is actually pretty fantastic? Considering it's rocking a 4k 6.5 inch, 120 hertz, refresh rate display 6 hours.21 minutes does have a better percentage per minute reading compared to the Xiaomi and a better William per minute reading compared to the Xiaomi as well, considering it finished later on, and it also has a slightly smaller battery at 4500, as opposed to the 5000 William hours that we see on the Xiaomi 6 hours and 30 minute. Mark interval 20 on the Samsung 13 on the OnePlus and 27 on the iPhone 12 Pro max. Of course, the iPhone looks like it's going to win, we'll have to see if there's going to be any twists and turns going forward from here on out. But how much longer will the OnePlus last, and can it indeed beat the Samsung? That would be very surprising considering it has a much smaller battery 13 on the Samsung after seven hours, seven percent on the OnePlus and 22 on the iPhone.

The iPhone has finally reached the red zone, but as stalls stayed, the coolest here with the last interval being 35.4 degrees in Celsius and the hottest in the last interval was the Samsung surprisingly at 43.1 degrees in Celsius. The OnePlus decides to say just to us after seven hours and 29 minutes, which is pretty impressive, considering it did worse in my previous test we'll get to that at the end of this video so stay tuned for that we are compared to other devices as well as its predecessors and after 7 hours and 31 minutes. We have 7 left on the s21 ultra within its tank of course, and 17 within the iPhone 12 Pro max's battery capacity, even though the iPhone 12 Pro max has a significantly smaller battery cell compared to the s21 ultra, the s21 ultra or Samsung likes to dim their devices when it reaches five percent. So I brought the lux luminous reading back up to match the brightness of the iPhone and the Samsung says chest toss after seven hours and 57 minutes not too shabby almost reached that eight hour mark. We have seen it go over nine hours when it is set to 60 hertz.

So I guess adaptive is not necessarily the best thing in terms of battery endurance when it comes to the Samsung, it did have the best percentage per minute reading, but it didn't beat the OnePlus in terms of milliampere per minute reading, since the OnePlus has a smaller battery, and they only finish within 30 minutes of each other. The iPhone is still going after eight minutes at 12 after eight hours at 12 percent, my bad over there and moving on. Can it reach the nine-hour mark interval. It usually has no sweat reaching that six percent after eight hours and 30 minutes and of course it has still kept the coolest peak temperature at 48.3 degrees in Celsius. The Xiaomi hit new heights here with 65.1 degrees in Celsius, which is absolutely insane. The iPhone's last interval was sitting at 37.4 degrees in Celsius and even though we have finished the test over here, I am running the apps. The same way that I would, if other smartphones were to surpass the 8-hour mark interval in a loop going back from the start, skipping a couple apps and going into some heavier apps and some lighter apps, respectively nine hours and seven nine hours and eight nine hours at nine minutes can the iPhone reach.

No, it doesn't 9 hours and 13 minutes. Zero percent on the iPhone 12 Pro max, absolutely phenomenal, but you've got to remember 60 hertz display and not necessarily a HD panel, still, nevertheless, a great score over there for the iPhone, with the best a million power per minute reading and percentage per minute fifth place over. Here we have the Xiaomi mi 11 ultra with a sub par six hours and five minutes pretty disappointed here, since it has a massive five thousand William hour battery next up fourth place is the Sony Xperia 1 mark iii, pretty impressive, considering it has a 4k 120 hertz display with a 4 500 William hour battery 6 hours and 21 minutes, I'm, actually. Okay. With that third place, we have the OnePlus 9 pro same size, sol as the Sony before it, but 7 hours and 29 minutes is an hour ahead of that even more than an hour ahead of that, but it lacks the 4k display second place is the galaxy s21 ultra with a massive 7 hours and 57 minutes.

Thanks to that wonderful, 5, 000 William hour batteries, pretty impressed with it first place very impressed with it the iPhone 12 Pro max 9 hours and 13 minutes. It never seems to disappoint, always hits over 9 hours every single time, though it does have a 60 hertz panel and when comparing these devices to their predecessors, as you can see right at the top of the screen over here, the Xperia 1 mark ii hits 6 hours and 55 minutes with a smaller 4 000 William hour cell, and it actually beats its successor, the Xperia 1 mark iii, though it was only a 60, hertz, refresh rate the Samsung Galaxy s, 20 ultra hits 7 hours and 33 minutes with the same settings and the same size battery capacity. So it's definitely seen an improvement this time around. The iPhone 12 Pro max is pretty much on par with the iPhone 11 Pro max's 9 hours and 12 minutes. The OnePlus 9 pro has pretty much stayed the same in terms of last year's OnePlus, 8 pro, so that's always good to see and the Xiaomi mi 11 ultras predecessor, the mi 10 ultra, did it in seven hours and 36 minutes, which is an hour and a half better than the m11 ultra, even though it has 500 William hours less in terms of battery capacity, though it was just limited to full HD, since it didn't have an option for HD, and if you take a look right at the bottom of the screen, if they all had the exact same size, battery capacity, the Samsung and Xiaomi's capacity of 5000 Williams, the iPhone would stay in first, but jump all the way up to 12 hours and 30.

Minutes second place would now be the OnePlus 9 pro with eight hours and 19 minutes, leaving the s21 ultra in the dust and then fourth place would still be the Sony seven hours and three minutes this time around with a slightly bigger bumped up battery and last place would still be. The 11 ultra- and one last thing to note here, is that in my previous battery drain test of the mi 11 ultra, I tested it out with mini 12.0. Now we have mini 12.5. All of us thought that the battery would drain a little less this time around, but it didn't last time we got six hours and 32 minutes. This time we got six hours in five minutes and both times I did the exact same apps for the exact same amount of time and on the exact same settings of HD and 120 hertz.

Let me know what you guys. Think of that in the comment section down below this is tech, nick and I'll catch you in the next one. You.

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