do you long for the days when your phone would last for a week on a single charge
well do we ever have the solution for you introducing the Linus tech tips
battery expander just slap it on strap it on
plug it in and
enjoy yeah
that's pretty ridiculous isn't it and yet here we are 11 years after the
introduction of the original iphone and
pretty much this legitimately is
basically the solution being pitched both by apple and by third parties to
address their shoddy a whole day asterisk as long as you
don't use it too much battery life has anyone considered that there might
be a better way you know maybe we could i i don't know just put a bigger battery
in the phone in the first place well that is exactly what eulephone did
the power 5 is an Android smartphone
with 5 times the battery capacity of the
latest iphone 10s and they claim this
thing can last for a week between charges
look at it i might just believe them
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13 000 milliamp hours
that's the advertised capacity of the power 5 and in a phone that is utterly
massive like to put that in perspective the latest iphone 10s battery is 2600
milliamp hours the pixel 3 xl weighs in
slightly thicker at 3 400 milliamp hours
and even the note 9 which samsung advertises as all day has a mere 4 000
milliamp hour battery in it that puts the power 5 at five times 3.8 and
3.25 times larger capacity than these
phones respectively that's a lot of juice it really is basically like
carrying around a regular phone and a pretty beefy battery pack which
translates to some interesting results but let's talk a bit about the rest of
the phone first it's pretty much your standard affair budget offshore Android
device with a six inch 1080p screen that manages to be
unremarkable both in terms of image quality and feel a relatively slow eight
core CPU somewhere around the level of a one plus three and north american
cellular band support that's a little bit limited as for aesthetics some
people are probably actually gonna quite
like this but i think it suffers from kind of a dated
appearance Jake got lg g4 vibes from the back and as for me i'm reminded of those
leather cases that people used to get for their really old brick phones you
know like the really old ones the ones with the little like flip out mouthpiece
and the antenna that comes up brandon do you see that at all yeah right yuck
other than that it doesn't really seem like anything special that is until you
pick the thing up the sheer girth and
more notably the weight of it is like nothing that i've experienced in a
modern phone again we need context for
this the power 5 is exactly twice as
thick as the pixel 3 xl and the phone weighs almost
three-quarters of a pound that is 330
grams for the metric folks out there like it's kind of funny because on the
one hand it will be actually impossible
for many people to operate one-handed and it's not even top-heavy it just kind
of feels like it because there is so much weight
hanging off the top of your hand on the other hand though it actually
gives it sort of a like premium feel that you wouldn't expect
from a 250 smartphone that and if you got in a fight like
you hit someone put this in your head no i'm serious
the speakers or i should say speaker there's just one are what i would
describe as usable unless you listen to something decent
first and realize how much you're missing the dual front and rear cameras
are actually not the worst thing ever but they use a sony sensor from 2015 so
that should give you some idea of the era of smartphone camera quality to
expect it's a far cry from a pixel 3 but honestly would probably be fine for most
people that is unlike the fingerprint sensor
which only seems to work a fraction of the time no matter how many times we
tried to set it up and even with all five fingerprint slots and software used
by the same finger with that said at least when it does
work you are in for a treat just kidding it's really slow but to be
honest i think a lot of people could probably make those compromises for the
added stamina that this phone affords if that's important to them like let's say
you're the kind of person who regularly flies between washington dc and moscow
for work even if you were to watch videos during that entire 12 or 13 hour travel time
the eulophone wouldn't break a sweat during our testing it lasted for a
staggering 31 and a half hours of
continuous watching youtube videos
remember that's with wi-fi active
by comparison the pixel 3 xl slummed it
with just under 14 hours and hey the power 5 even supports
glonass russia's version of gps so you won't get lost while you're over there
okay but how about something a little more indicative of regular phone use
let's say a combined workload of web browsing photo and video editing writing
and data manipulation well pc mark's work 2.0 benchmark hits the phone with
this sort of mishmash of common workloads without any standby time in
between and again the eulophone impresses with 3.6 times the effective
battery life of google's latest and greatest so with some quick napkin math
here let's say you know four hours of that kind of load per day you would end
up with more than nine days of battery life like obviously
you'd still have some standby usage but to say that a week of battery life on
this thing is possible would actually be pretty safe
alright now let's talk about gaming
imagine for a moment playing a mobile game on your phone
literally all day going to sleep
then doing the same thing all the next day without having to plug
in that's possible and then at the opposite end of the scale what about
going on a week-long backcountry camping trip using just your phone for
navigation like the possibilities that this thing
unlocks are freaking bananas
so much so that i actually kind of wondered if the thing would even finish
charging overnight but it actually doesn't take that long so the included
wall board here is spec for their own style of quick charging with a slightly
odd although oneplus has a similar scheme five volt five amp output that
juices the phone from zero to a hundred percent in a rated two and a half hours
although your mileage may vary slightly
so bottom line yeah we know battery life isn't a problem for everyone you might
have a place to plug in at your desk or in the car or on the plane and honestly
speaking for how much heavier this phone is it might actually be more convenient
for folks who don't want to get their phone ARM all like jacked to just carry
a battery bank in their purse or backpack or whatever but we'll let you
guys be the judge of that in fact we'll let you guys be the judge of what the
best way forward is in general leave a comment is the convenience here
worth the compromise should we stick to the status quo or should we maybe try
and find a middle ground like i personally have wanted for a long time
to see a 6 000 or 7 000 milliamp hour
phone with like an endurance edition from
a tier one manufacturer like samsung or apple or google
am i ever gonna get that probably not
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