Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016 edition) and Galaxy A5 (2016) ace our battery life test: score among the longest lasting phones ever
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Put simply, the Galaxy A7 (2016) and Galaxy A5 (2016) battery life test scores are impressive, the two phones are among the best we've ever tested in terms of battery life.
Both were running neck to neck in all of our tests and finished with a score of just a few minutes short of 10 hours. That's even better than the Galaxy Note 5 and iPhone 6s Plus, two of the longest lasting popular phones that got 9 hours and 11 minutes.
How do we arrive at that score? We test all our devices the same way: we run a custom script that emulates typical smartphone use and we carefully fine tune the display brightness to 200 nits on all phones to give them equal playing field (200 nits is a level that is considered comfortable for indoor use). It's important to know that our script runs non-stop, with the screen always on until the phone dies. In the real world, of course, your phone stays idle in your pocket and on your desk, so the phones will last much longer than the score result.
Both new Galaxy A (2016) phones come with Samsung's adaptive fast charging. The (quite bulky) wall charger is able to push 9.0V at 1.67A for a combined 15 watts of power in the beginning of the charging process, and then 5.0V at 2.0A for a combined 10 watts of power.
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