Every year, Apple talks about “a battery that lasts all day” at the presentation of its smartphones. Allegedly, 15, 20, 29 hours of work are provided to everyone.
To be honest, the last time these numbers came into contact with reality was in 2019, when the iPhone 11 Pro was released. In 2024, I charge my iPhone 13 Pro up to three times a day, and the advertised 22 hours of battery life are long gone, if they ever existed.
Budget smartphones in the Android world last longer because manufacturers are not shy about installing a large battery in models with display screens.
Today I propose to look at what exactly this difference is and how it is noted during daily use.
We compare carefully best and top iPhone 15 Pro Max for 130,000 rubles and the new budget Infinix NOTE 40, in which the manufacturer tried to cover as many basic models of a modern smartphone as possible. By the way, right now it is on sale at a discount and costs only 20,990 rubles, that is, about 6 times cheaper than Apple’s flagship.
Let’s look at the bare characteristics, who has special features, and, most importantly, how this is reflected first choice and which smartphone is objectively configured.
Let me start with a direct comparison with hardware.
Infinix battery is 11% larger
The smartphone has its own movable island
The iPhone 15 Pro Max has a 4441 mAh or 17.32 Wh battery.
For Infinix NOTE 40, I turn off the battery with a capacity of 5000 mAh or 19.55 Wh, that is, 11% more than in the Apple flagship.
This difference in the area of batteries does not end with hardware.
Apple caps wired power at around 33W, while Infinix explicitly states that their smartphone can be powered at up to 45W. Moreover, the power supply with Infinix NOTE 40 The highest volume is included immediately.
When it comes to wireless charging, the Infinix NOTE 40 also wins. The maximum power through the magnetic “puck” is 20 W, while both standard MagSafe and Qi2 provide only 15 W of power to the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
And this despite the fact that smartphone screens that consume all this capacity are very similar to the fact that the chip consumes less in a budget device.
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Infinix NOTE 40 consumes less power
Infinix NOTE has 40 full-software chips for precise control over battery and power consumption, we’ll talk about them below
The Infinix NOTE 40 features a 6.78-inch OLED panel with a refresh range of 120Hz. With the development of 2436×1080 it gives 393 pixels per inch illumination.
And the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a 6.7-inch OLED screen with a maximum refresh rate of 120 Hz. A resolution of 2796 x 1290 results in a light output of 460 pixels per inch.
The Infinix NOTE 40 has a slightly larger display, but the resolution is lower, so the power consumption should be give or take about that.
But as for processors, that is, specific iron data.
Infinix NOTE 40 is powered by MediaTek Helio G99 Ultimate. On average, its consumption is about 3.7 W/h.
The A17 Pro installed in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, although made using a more modern technical process, consumes an average of about 4.2 Wh / h, that is, 12% more. This happens not only during autonomous operation under high load, but also when an Apple smartphone needs to reduce the frequency after running “heavy” programs for a long time in order to avoid overheating.
In Infinix NOTE 40, as we know, such throttling is not observed.
Cooling mode versus slow charging
The Infinix NOTE 40 is powered by its own Cheetah X1 chip. It is responsible for safe power supply without overheating, control of operating time and different charging schedules.
Yes, your smartphone can be charged in different modes. While charging, you can change the method so that the phone heats up 7°C less (useful for increasing battery charge), to smart mode, where fast charging will give 50% in 26 minutes, and to “hyper” you will get 50% of everything in 19 minutes. minutes.
The iPhone does not have such settings, and its not the largest battery was and still is charged to 100% in more than two hours.
As for the power saving mode, both smartphones have it, but its mode looks dramatic.
The power saving mode on the iPhone 15 Pro Max will give you a maximum boost of 50% of the time, while the Infinix NOTE 40 will last three times longer.
Only one is enough for two days
So, with an 11% larger battery and a 12% increase in power consumption, the Infinix NOTE 40 shows a remarkable result. Everything, of course, will depend on the usage scenario, but the smartphone easily lasts for one and a half, and sometimes two days without recharging.
iPhone 15 Pro Max by the end of the day remains up to 30%, and more often about 15%, which is commendable for Apple smartphones, but loses to a budget smartphone that costs three times less.
When using Infinix NOTE 40, also use other software features. For example, when playing games with a wired connection, when the bypass charging function is activated, set the current directly to the motherboard in the battery connectors, which reduces heating to 4.5 ° C and helps maintain the frequency at the same level and does not reduce performance. There is no such thing on the iPhone.
The foundation also has its own controlled change management system. It shows which programs are consuming a lot of energy right now, and also allows you to adapt different functions to improve efficiency. Can happen accidentally on a smartphone display video in energy-saving formatturn on AI analyzer for intelligent reduction of consumption set for you charging mode.
We specifically added the ability to turn on a warning 30 seconds before shutdown, so that the black screen will no longer freeze until you write a message to someone at the last percent.
As a result, we get the following. The difference between smartphones of literally 100,000 rubles had absolutely no effect on such an important structure as operating time. Moreover, the budget Infinix NOTE 40 turned out to be even better than the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and with the presence of such channels, the processing works about 10% longer.
The benefits don’t end there. IN Infinix NOTE 40 We checked a couple more points and realized how else it is better than the flagships. The results of some of our experiments were surprising.
Let me remind you that right now Infinix NOTE 40 is being sold at a discount for 6,000 rubles, that is, it costs only 20,990 rubles.
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Source: Iphones RU
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