Bombardment Life

Within the HTC I M9 is a not-removable lithium-ion battery with a capacity of ten.8 Wh (2,840 mAh, three.8 V), which is a x% increment in size compared to the I M8. I suspect this is to recoup for the actress power the Snapdragon 810 can swallow at tiptop, equally the display size remains the aforementioned for both smartphones.

The Snapdragon 810 is the offset SoC from Qualcomm to be produced on a 20nm HPm node, which is a more efficient node than 28nm, used for the visitor'due south previous flagship chips. The increased functioning of the 810 will negate some of the gains from the node shift, though we should all the same see lower ability consumption in low intensity tasks including standby, every bit well as when using non-performance SoC blocks such as the media codec and wireless radios.

The specifications suggest that the battery life of the Ane M9 should be like to that of the 1 M8, and in my mean solar day to mean solar day usage this seemed to be true. Bombardment life was proficient without being amazing: on one particularly intensive day, using the phone reasonably ofttimes on LTE networks, it lasted until I got home in the late evening with a small-scale percentage of accuse remaining. The best phones out there would go out me with a bit more than headroom, though I never felt the 1 M9 had inadequate battery life.

Let's encounter how the One M9 performs in our battery benchmarks.

Equally you can come across from the tests we've run above, battery life from the I M9 falls in the heart of most of our graphs, ofttimes exhibiting stamina worse than the Ane M8. To exist honest this is pretty disappointing from HTC, and while the phone's bombardment life is far from terrible in general, I never similar seeing a reduction in performance going from one generation to the next.