When buying a smartphone, tablet or other portable devices, there are many aspects that you need to consider – hardware specs, pricing and also battery life, just to name a few. Yes, you must know how long the device that you consider buying can last on a single charge. You certainly don’t want a device that can lasts 2 hours at most, right?
In this article, we shall talk about battery life. In fact, we are going to find out which tablet has the best battery life. Yes, the people over Which? Tech Daily has ran battery life test on an array of tablets available on the market and presented the outcome of the tests in the form of infographic. We figure out the information might be beneficial to you.
To ensure the tests are fair, every tablet is tested in lab conditions to see how long it lasts when browsing the web on Wi-Fi and watching videos. Screen brightness are set to 200 nits (measured using a light meter). In addition to that, the tablets are divided into two groups – tablets with screen size of 7.9-inches and smaller are listed as 7-inch tablet, while those 9.4-inches and larger are competing under the 10-inch tablet group.
Here are all the outcomes.
10-inch tablets battery life
Of all the tablets tested, Apple iPad with Retina Display outshone other competitors with 811 minutes or more than 13 hours of battery life! At second place is the second generation iPad, with 4 hours less battery life than iPad with Retina Display. Meanwhile, Sony Xperia Tablet S, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Microsoft Surface RT and Google Nexus 10 managed to last more than 8 hours. For all 16 10-inch tablets they’ve tested, the average battery life is 451 minutes or 7.5 hours.
7-inch tablets battery life
Apple won it again. For the 7-inch tablet category, the new iPad mini is the leader with 783 minutes of battery life. That’s roughly 13 hours or less than 30 minutes of battery life than iPad with Retina Display. Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7 have emerged as the runner up and second runner up with 591 minutes and 550 minutes of battery life respectively. For all the 10 7-inch tablets tested, the average battery life is 478 minutes or close to 8 hours.
So there you go. Now you should know which company makes tablet with best battery life. 🙂
