If you like compact phones, you should definitely like the iPhone 12 Mini.It's a rare combination at once
Discharging quickly?
And indeed it is: The iPhone 12 Mini has a 2,227mAh battery, which is almost half the size of many Android counterparts. When comparing the iPhone 12 Mini's battery to its siblings, here's how they differ.
- IPhone 12 Mini Battery Capacity: 2227mAh
- IPhone 12/12 Pro battery capacity: 2815 mAh
- IPhone 12 Pro Max Battery Capacity: 3687 mAh
Of course, future potential usersnew items concern the most important question. With such a tiny battery, how will the phone hold a charge, how long does the battery last, and what real-life battery life should we expect?
Overseas bloggers have already conducted several deep battery tests and shared the results.
IPhone 12 Mini Battery Lasts 5 Hours 10minutes of continuous video playback from 100% until the phone is completely discharged. And this is definitely well below average, but interestingly, the iPhone 12 Mini actually lasted a little longer than the 2020 iPhone SE. However, it will last slightly less than the regular iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, which in the same test lasted almost an hour and a half. longer.
What about the competition on Android? Well, the Pixel 5 lasts a whopping 8 hours 49 minutes in this same battery test, while the Galaxy S20 tops the charts with 10 hours 20 minutes, roughly double the iPhone 12 Mini!
The next test assumes the assessment of the autonomousweb browsing, which is very typical everyday use: no tricky tasks, just browsing and scrolling on the phone, and this test is one of the best indicators of phone battery life for normal use.
The good news is that the iPhone 12The Mini did a great job with that, considering of course its tiny battery. At almost 11 hours, it's not quite as good as the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, but it is significantly better than the cheaper iPhone SE and not far behind the Android rivals with nearly double the battery size.
And finally the third test! We saw the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro fail our battery test in 3D games miserably, and it came as a bit of a surprise. The phone started to heat up, unlike other phones tested by bloggers, and the battery just melted. I was very curious to know if the iPhone 12 Mini suffers from the same problems and what causes them.
Now that bloggers have done the same battery testin 3D games on the Mini, we can say that it suffers from exactly the same problem, but since it has an even smaller battery, it almost melts before our eyes. Only 2 hours 22 minutes! It almost discharges as quickly as it charges! This is absurd!
Naturally, the bloggers needed to investigate, and they started playing different games.Interestingly, they noticed the same problem in some games, for example, Minecraft suffered fromHowever, other games didn't seem to be affected: Call of Duty Mobile, arguably the most popular mobile game of 2020, worked perfectly.In fact, they played CoD Mobile for about an hour (the graphics quality is set to very high and the frame rate is set to high), and the battery on the iPhone 12 Mini dropped from its starting point from 71% to 52% after an hour of gameplay.Now, it's much more reasonable, and the iPhone 12 Mini has delivered a total battery life of around 5 hours in 3D gaming.
At the moment it seems that the situation with gamesthe phone is not stable. You will notice that your device heats up significantly and the battery drains like crazy, while some other games limit the GPU's performance, or at least don't always run it at full capacity. We're curious to know if updates to some of these games will make an impact, and we'll be monitoring this issue closely.
In general, if you ignore the problems withoverheating in some games, the iPhone 12 Mini did a really good job. It's definitely the best phone in terms of battery life, but it holds up pretty well in everyday use.