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Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G battery test is over, here are the results
The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G for T-Mobile has a rather impressive spec sheet, which means that its battery will have a lot of features to power. And while its 1750 mAh capacity is a noticeable improvement over the 1500 mAh found in the original I9000, it now has an extra CPU core, faster 3G network, as well as NFC to deal with.
As always we will kick things off with a closer look at the telephony endurance of the smartphone. Here, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G managed the hardly impressive 7 hours and 14 minutes – a result, which, while not necessarily bad, cannot be qualified as anything but average.
Talk time
- Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX
20:24 - Samsung Galaxy Note
12:14 - Samsung Wave 3 S8600
11:07 - Samsung I9103 Galaxy R
9:40 - HTC Sensation XL
9:30 - Nokia Lumia 710
9:05 - HTC Vivid
9:02 - HTC Rhyme
8:48 - Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V
8:41 - Meizu MX
8:39 - Samsung Galaxy S II
8:35 - Nokia Lumia 800
8:25 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus
8:23 - Samsung Captivate Glide
8:20 - HTC Rezound (LTE)
8:10 - Samsung Galaxy Note (LTE)
8:02 - Apple iPhone 4S
7:41 - Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G
7:14 - Samsung i937 Focus S
7:25 - Samsung Rugby Smart I847
7:09 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro
6:57 - Nokia N9
6:57 - HTC Radar
6:53 - BlackBerry Curve 9380
6:52 - LG Nitro HD (LTE)
5:16 - BlackBerry Bold 9790
5:00 - Pantech Burst
4:46
Things got significantly better in the web browsing section of the battery trial. Here, the handset managed 5 hours and 45 minutes before it ran out of juice – a result, which is above average and, logically, incredibly close to the score of the similarly equipped Pantech Burst for AT&T.
Web browsing
- Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX
7:23 - HTC Radar
7:17 - Apple iPhone 4S
6:56 - BlackBerry Curve 9380
6:40 - Samsung i937 Focus S
6:15 - Samsung Rugby Smart I847
5:53 - Pantech Burst
5:51 - Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G
5:45 - Samsung Wave 3 S8600
5:34 - Samsung Captivate Glide
5:33 - Samsung Galaxy Note LTE
5:24 - HTC Sensation XL
5:20 - HTC Rezound
5:16 - HTC Rhyme
5:08 - Samsung I9103 Galaxy R
5:07 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro
4:50 - HTC Vivid
4:46 - Meizu MX
4:35 - Nokia N9
4:33 - Samsung Galaxy S II
4:24 - Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V
4:20 - Nokia Lumia 800
4:07 - BlackBerry Bold 9790
4:02 - LG Nitro HD
4:00 - Nokia Lumia 710
3:51 - Samsung Galaxy Note
3:35 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus
3:01
The video playback time came out pretty good as well. The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G lasted for 7 hours and 33 minutes, thanks to its energy sipping 4? Super AMOLED screen – a score, which puts the device in the upper half of our chart.
Video playback
- Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX
14:17 - Samsung Rugby Smart I847
9:34 - Apple iPhone 4S
9:24 - Nokia N9
8:40 - Samsung Galaxy Note
8:25 - Samsung Galaxy S II
8:00 - Samsung i937 Focus S
7:55 - Samsung Wave 3 S8600
7:52 - Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V
7:45 - Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G 7:33
- Samsung Galaxy Note LTE
7:30 - Samsung I9103 Galaxy R
6:21 - HTC Sensation XL
6:12 - Samsung Captivate Glide
6:04 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus
6:02 - HTC Vivid
6:00 - HTC Radar
5:54 - Nokia Lumia 800
5:52 - BlackBerry Bold 9790
5:47 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro
5:44 - Pantech Burst
5:38 - Meizu MX
5:27 - HTC Rhyme
5:23 - BlackBerry Curve 9380
5:09 - HTC Rezound
5:03 - LG Nitro HD
4:17 - Nokia Lumia 710
3:27
The endurance rating, which the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G achieved came out at 39 hours. This means that you will need to recharge your smartphone every 39 hours if you use it for an hour each of telephony, web browsing, as well as video playback every day.
While not offering a mind blowing performance, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G for T-Mobile offers a better than average battery performance. In our experience with the handset, we found it easy to make it through a day of use. This is as good as it gets with a dual-core Android smartphone these days.
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Elephant with a Samsung Galaxy Note makes all his friends at the zoo jealous
The Samsung Galaxy Note is quite popular with people – Samsung just announced thatover 5 million Notes were shipped. Not all of them went to humans though – at least one elephant is quite happy with his Galaxy Note.
Peter the Elephant uses the Note to play some music, browse photos (even snap a few himself) and the S Pen proved to be well-designed for use with a trunk, too.
Here’s the video of Peter the Elephant playing with the Samsung Galaxy Note:
You can also check out these two unedited videos where my namesake of the elephant kind plays with a drum app and a piano app.
Okay, this is likely an attempt at viral marketing by Samsung (the video above ends with “Bigger is Better”), but it’s still a pretty fun video.
New iPad battery test complete, see how it did
Having finished the detailed review of the new Apple iPad, we finally found some time to complete its battery test and see if the new gigantic battery makes up for the power-hungry chipset and the high-res screen.
We put the new iPad side by side with its predecessor, the iPad 2 and set to find out which of them drains its battery faster and which one charges faster. Here go the results from the three tests we ran on each of the tablets.
The first trial was video playback – a standard definition video was uploaded to both the new iPad and the iPad 2 and was looped until they depleted 90% of their fully charged batteries. The iPad 2 took the victory by a small margin here – it lasted 10 hours and 24 minutes, before its battery indicator reached 10%.
Video playback
- new Apple iPad
9:53 - Apple iPad 2
10:24 - Apple iPhone 4S
9:24
The new iPad on the other hand reached that level 9 hours and 53 minutes after the beginning of the test. Two things have to be noted here. First, the iPad video player doesn’t stop when its battery reaches a 10% charge. We ended the test at that point so the results would be comparable to the iPhone.
Second and more important, to get the maximum endurance from the new iPad, you need to charge it for about an hour after its battery indicator reaches 100%. Apparently the slate actually isn’t fully charged when it first hits 100% and can benefit from staying plugged in for a bit longer.
According to our measurements, you can get up to 45 minutes of extra playback if you charge your iPad for an hour or two after it shows 100% charge proving the theory that’s been circulating around the Internets for some time now. It’s anybody’s guess why Apple chose to design their new tablet that way, but a theory we might subscribe to is they did so to protect its battery.
You see, Li-Ion batteries tend to lose their capacity the quickest when they are stored fully charged and in warm environment. The new iPad tendency to run hotter than its predecessor is already well documented, so maybe Apple prefers if you didn’t charge it to the fullest.
Back to testing, we went on and run our usual browser test on the two iPads. The new iPad took the crown here, taking 9 hours and 39 minutes to run its fully charged battery flat, while the iPad 2 lasted 38 minutes less. Both of the slates performed notably better than the iPhone 4S, which we have subjected to the same test previously.
Web browsing
- new Apple iPad
9:39 - Apple iPad 2
9:01 - Apple iPhone 4S
6:56
Finally, we also decided to check how long does the monstrously big battery of the new Apple iPad takes to charge. Given that it can gain charge at about the same rate as its predecessor, we would expect charging to take almost twice as long here. And that’s exactly what the test showed with the new iPad taking 6 hours and 9 minutes to reach the 100% mark (and as we already explained, you’ve got about an hour more of charging to do at that point), while the iPad 2 was fully charged in just over 3 and a half hours.
Charging
- new Apple iPad
6:09 - Apple iPad 2
3:33
So, the new Apple iPad certainly takes its sweet time charging, but we see no reason to worry about its endurance once it’s there. It will be as long lasting as its predecessor and that’s a fine achievement in our books.
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