Our summer battery and display test: the beach effect
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- Anonymous
- nDx
- 15 Jul 2024
watch this video on youtube and you'll realize how bad samsung is compared to vivo which ironically is using a samsung display
watch?v=tLa0bFIS9t8&t
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- Anonymous
- vV5
- 15 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 14 Jul 2024What's up with that big of drop with s24 ultra? It get... moreScreen legibility or burnt-in screen. Take your pick.
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- Anonymous
- vV5
- 15 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2024Such a shame result Here I am riding with google maps fo... moreTemperature and sunniness are not always directly correlated.
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- Anonymous
- Duh
- 15 Jul 2024
SAPTORSHI, 14 Jul 2024Could you guys do such a test between the samsung s24 ultra... moreUnfortunately iPhones more sensitive thermal management would have kicked in and would have gone into overheated warning
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- Anonymous
- 0cB
- 15 Jul 2024
My phone only gets hot when using android auto. With screen on and without car ac. Otherwise no any heating. Using s24+ superb phone.
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- Anonymous
- Jvg
- 15 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2024aren't they all water resistant? give them a little sp... moreThey could invite some cute iPhone girls and organize a beach party like in that animated movie Sausage Party xD
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- Anonymous
- kt$
- 15 Jul 2024
21 comments after 10 hours?
Without the iPhone in this comparison, not many people seem to care about this.
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- Anonymous
- U@F
- 15 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2024aren't they all water resistant? give them a little sp... moreI hope you're joking because you cannot put sea water on any device even if it has any IP water resistance (that would void the warranty contract right there).
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- Anonymous
- U@F
- 15 Jul 2024
You could have mentioned the maximum temperature of each phone after or during the peaks of the tests. I was literally interested in that one piece of information as its the major annoyance for me. Also, 30 degrees Celsius does NOT represent a summer beach in most countries, at least anything between 35 and 40 degrees would have been more realistic.
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- Fa14bi
- mVv
- 15 Jul 2024
jiyen235, 14 Jul 2024You guys could've easily just did 2 different tests, f... moreI would argue that Insta, tik tok and Facebook is web browsing.
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- Fa14bi
- mVv
- 15 Jul 2024
Just wanted to express mz gratitude that the team is starting to do this sort of test - How Important is the peak brightness spec if it can't keep it up for 5 Minutes in the situation it was designed for.
Thank you GSM Arena teem, thought seeing an iPhone here as well would have been interesting.
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- Anonymous
- 05e
- 15 Jul 2024
On three (four if you include whatever phone they used to record the video) you mostly see cloud reflections. One one, you don't see any reflections. Obviously, there is no test to compare a core feature like that, when it probably is the issue affecting outdoor legibility the most.
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- Anonymous
- Jvg
- 15 Jul 2024
Hahaha. I hate going to the beach, but taking your smartphone to the beach must be extremely pathetic. I guess GSMArena will never understand that some of us hate summer and the sun and for that reason we urgently need a dark mode for the website.
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- Anonymous
- Bi{
- 15 Jul 2024
aren't they all water resistant? give them a little splash to cool off
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- Anonymous
- xjH
- 15 Jul 2024
Such a shame result
Here I am riding with google maps for hours with max brightness on ips in 35C on average
While samsung ultra strunggling to maintain temperature just by taking notes under the sun
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- LucaKirani
- C9n
- 15 Jul 2024
Can't believe the honor magic 6 Pro wasn't used with their massive battery and 5000 nits brightness
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- vale
- me}
- 14 Jul 2024
From my experience phones get really hot when you use the camera a lot, both for video and photo and then editing them. I think people would do that at the beach and want to post them then and there. The phones would reach 50 degrees
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- Cpt.Power
- SH3
- 14 Jul 2024
Even the midranger Poco or Motorola is litterary equal to a 1600 eur flagship from samsung what a fail.
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 14 Jul 2024
Put flagship phones to record 4k video outdoors.
Let's see if besides xperia, any else can pass 15 min.
Xperia can do hours of 4k30 or 60.
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 14 Jul 2024
You guys could've easily just did 2 different tests, first do the display test to see how the display reacts by recording 4k60 videos for 30 mins and then checking the brightness. That would be hellish for the displays if you really wanted a stress test. If not you could've only done it for 2-5 mins as most people like to take some stories and stuff.
For the battery you could've come another day or used a power bank to charge them all back to 100% and then do the test.
Also, what's the point of a 100% white window? Nobody watches anything in the sun with that. Should've used your regular 75% white window test and better yet, just checked the brightness of the website at some place in the display. More realistic.
Best test scenario would be to scroll instagram as it's quite heavy for a social media app and see the brightness in a similar post in those phones to simulate looking at a normal shot. Due to the smaller size of the photos, the fully white window would be smaller like 30-60% size and so would be more realistic and allow you to see how the phones fare in a real scenario.
Idk who browses web pages for hours on the beach, that's just cringe lmao, most people go on TikTok, Youtube or Insta nowadays and old people go on Facebook. Web browsing is mostly done at home.