Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge + work longer Galaxy Note 4 with a smaller battery capacity – Androidinsider (press release) (blog)

On August 13, Samsung held a presentation, which introduced two new smartphones: Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge +. On the territory of Russia will be sold only S6 Edge +. By the way, the price for the 128 GB model was 89 900 rubles, the price tag is not the best, right? Thus, it is justified the refusal to sell the Note 5 to our market. “However, why pay more for Note 5 or S6 Edge +, if you can buy a Note 4 more capacious battery?” – Think of our readers, but not so simple …

Our colleagues from phonearena Compare how holding charge Note 5 and S6 Edge + compared to its predecessor in the face of Note 4 and other smartphones. The result is impressive:

Galaxy Note 5 spent on a single battery charge 9:00 11 minutes, S6 Edge + much better – 9 hours 29 minutes, in the case of Note 4 got 8 hours and 43 minutes. And this despite the fact that Note 5 as S6 Edge +, equipped with a battery capacity of 3000 mAh, while the battery capacity Note 4 220 mAh more. There has been a similar result due to a software optimization, display more sophisticated, energy-efficient processor. Important role played by memory LPDDR4, which is significantly more economical – at 40 percent – and more productive older LPDDR3-memory in Note 4.

a matter of just a shell TouchWiz, because of the 4GB free are about 980 MB, and it despite the fact that the real memory is available only 3600 MB – 400 MB remaining leave to the needs of the system, including memory allocated under the accelerator.

In addition, the reduced and the charging devices with 95 minutes in Note 4 to 81 minutes in Note 5 and 80 minutes in the S6 Edge + – yes, 15 minutes, the difference is not so important at first glance, but imagine how many hours you’ll save if you use the unit for a year and charge at intervals of 2 days.

And we recall that Note 5 and S6 Edge + received the processor Exynos 7420, accelerator ARM Mali-T760 MP8, 5,7-inch QHD SuperAMOLED-display, 4 GB of RAM, LTE Cat.9 (450 / 100 Mbit / s), the rear camera 16 megapixel with an aperture F / 1.9, the front camera of 5 megapixels and a battery capacity of 3000 mAh. Features Soup only the presence of the stylus in Note 5 and rounded display S6 Edge +. The rest, as you can see, similar devices.