The thing about screen time is, just how long is anyone away from a plug point or car charger, even builders on an outside job have plenty access to a point, if I was hiking in the lake district I would attach one of my solar chargers to my rucksack and be constantly charging.
Even 45min on charge in your lunch time in a warehouse will be more than enough charge to get anyone home, imho it is a non issue except for those of us involved professionally in battery development.
Of course anyone can avoid the issue by spending a tenner on Eb for a spare bat
So it comes down to being a thing to use that points out your superior discernment in choosing a model of phone or attacking another model that you didn't buy based on a perceived weakness, again pointing out your superior discernment for not buying the "carp" phone, some kind of success through association.
Well tbf, it is a pretty important feature for a lot of people and it is nice knowing that you won't have to charge every chance you get or taking the back cover off to put in a spare battery etc. Certainly an important factor for me!
At first I was worried about my S battery life and I thought, doesn't matter too much as I will always be near a PC or power socket etc. but when I got my S and seen what sort of battery life I was getting, I was very impressed and felt so relieved knowing that I could get 1-2 days (probably longer) and 4+ hours (with auto brightness as well) on screen time of 1 charge easily.
I do agree with Jonny, that 3 hours on screen time isn't that impressive (but good in some ways when you do consider the screen size and res. and all that android does etc.) Can't remember what mrk's usage was for that test now, but with my usual usage (on any phone) I would consider it to be poor as well. The X is considered to be very poor yet it gets about 3 hours 15 minutes on screen time (at about 30% brightness), so you can't consider the X to be poor but the GS 3 amazing.........
But from the other screenshots that mrk has posted and gmans plus stoosh's battery life it is very impressive (over 4+ hours on screen time with auto brightness or 50% brightness)
HTC one S (pretty much the same though, still need to see more tests in order to see which is the better one though, think the S is better overall though [due to the smaller screen and inferior res.], most people in the S thread here getting up to 5 hours on screen time) and XL (this can't be bought in the UK though, but can be imported, apparently gets up to 6 hours on screen time)
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