Google and Samsung are embarrassing themselves

Whoever has the biggest can also do the longest? At least for smartphones, this sentence does not apply, as the two professional models of the iPhone 14 recently impressively demonstrated. Although their power storage is one of the smaller models, they triumph in the latest battery test – Google and Samsung, on the other hand, make a fool of themselves with their latest flagships.

Apple’s competition consistently installs batteries with more capacity, and this also applies to the new smartphone models from Google. But how do the new Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro fare against Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max and how does Samsung’s current flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra position itself? A current battery test provides the answers YouTube by PhoneArena.

Battery test: iPhone 14 Pro (Max) vs. Google Pixel 7 (Pro) and Co.

First the initial situation, i.e. the size of the installed power dispensers in the overview:

• iPhone 14 Pro Max: 4,323mAh
• iPhone 14 Pro: 3,200mAh
• Galaxy S22 Ultra: 5,000mAh
• Pixel 7 Pro: 5,000mAh
• Pixel 7: 4,355mAh
• Pixel 6 Pro: 5,000mAh

Google wants to move up with these two cell phones:

Apple’s professional smartphones visibly have the smallest batteries, the Pixel 7 Pro, the older Pixel 6 Pro and the Galaxy S22 Ultra have a much larger power dispenser. Is the race already over for Google and Samsung and Apple can pack up? Probably not, as the following result impressively documents. In the first part of the experiment, each mobile phone was put through a simulator to reproduce typical Internet surfing. The running times speak a clear language:

• iPhone 14 Pro Max: 19 hours and 5 minutes
• iPhone 14 Pro: 16 hours and 18 minutes
• Pixel 7 Pro: 14 hours and 19 minutes
• Pixel 7: 13 hours and 56 minutes
• Galaxy S22 Ultra: 13 hours and 17 minutes
• Pixel 6 Pro: 13 hours and 13 minutes

Although the Apple phones have the smallest batteries, they clearly outperform the competition. An embarrassment for Google and Samsung.

Apple’s current cell phone portfolio at a glance:

Things aren’t really getting any better for Google and Samsung

It doesn’t really get any better in the second part of the test, where a YouTube video is played until the inevitable end of the power supply. Even though the Pixel 7 Pro narrowly overtakes the iPhone 14 Pro, it still can’t beat the iPhone 14 Pro Max:

• iPhone 14 Pro Max: 11 hours and 0 minutes
• Pixel 7 Pro: 9 hours and 39 minutes
• iPhone 14 Pro: 9 hours and 14 minutes
• Pixel 7: 9 hours and 13 minutes
• Pixel 6 Pro: 9 hours and 10 minutes
• Galaxy S22 Ultra: 7 hours and 27 minutes

Pretty impressive what Apple delivers there. It’s not just the sheer size of the battery that counts. Details such as the perfect coordination with the in-house operating system or the new dynamic display with a minimum refresh rate of 1 Hz ultimately make the difference.