Motorola Droid Turbo released recently and with its ultimate specifications it is giving stiff competition to all the premium smart phones that are present as of now. Motorola Turbo from the date of its release got attention because of its mammoth 3900mAh non-removable Li-Po battery which is so far the highest capacity battery in the phones of similar size. This phone can give a perfect answer for those who always complain about charging the phone every night so that they can have back up next day. As per the company claims, the battery can give 675 hours of standby time to the phone and one can talk continuously over 3G network for a period of 48hours or 2 days. These specifications are not achieved by any premium smart phone so far.
Motorola sacrificed the slim factor for its mammoth battery capacity. Almost all the smart phones that is available in the market now a days are less than 9mm thick where as some of them are even less than 5mm thick. But to pack this battery Motorola increased the thickness of this smart phone to 11mm thickness which may not be liked by many.
Results: Tough Motorola claimed that the Droid Turbo battery can give 48hours of heavy usage it is not at all possible in normal practice as manufacturers test their phones under special conditions and here are some of the practical test results from reliable sources.
In the tests of PhoneArena, this battery lasted for 10h42m which is the best so far and with this it captured the first position. The second position was captured buy Z3 with 9h29m which is almost an hour less than Turbo. Samsung Note 4 came in third position with 8h43min span which is almost two hours less than the Turbo.
In the 2nd test, top fifty websites which are very popular are browsed on 4G LTE speeds and once again the ultimate Droid came on top place after lasting for 9h30m which is more than an hour when compared to average of other premium mobiles.
In the Phandroid test, this device lasted for 21 hours which includes taking pictures, watching videos on YouTube, media sharing through Bluetooth, browsing and downloading on 3G and 4G networks, wifi usage, installing apps, video recording etc. This device lasted double than average (2-3h) if the screen is continuously on at the maximum brightness possible.
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Charging the Droid Turbo battery takes very less time than usual. One can charge this phone from 0 to100% within two hours time. In the list of less charging time, this phone is in the third position, only Samsung Note 4(95min) and LG G3 (2hrs) are better than this.
Motorola claims that one can charge this phone up to 60% within thirty minutes as this phone is equipped with Quick Charge version 2.0 and as per company’s reports this is enough to use phone moderately for eight to ten hours.
The battery life of any smart phone varies from person to person and depends on several other factors. But whatever the usage may be Turbo will last longer than your premium smart phone.