Galaxy S23 vs iPhone 14 vs Pixel 7: Battery Test!

We test the battery life of the regular Galaxy S23 model and compare it against other similarly compact phones like the iPhone 14, iPhone 13 and Pixel 7. But there is one underdog here and it's ready to take over! Which small phone has the longest battery life? Let’s find out!
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00:00 Introduction
00:16 The Competitors
00:50 Battery specifications
01:09 Battery Test Explained
01:54 Browsing Test
03:39 Browsing Test Results
03:56 YouTube Test
06:20 YouTube Test Results
06:42 Reviewing The Results
08:03 Conclusion

[Dudewitbow]

zenphone 9 represents what happens when you make your phone slightly thicker to allow for a larger battery. Huge battery performance gains. and its thick enough to gasp, add a headphone jack.

[soleilgs]

The Zenfone 9 is beyond impressive. It’s really shocking how good the battery life is

[shivamkrishn]

Immense love respect and support for battery tests like these.

These are more accurate than those 99% tests on internet having mix scenarios

[JimboJonesTherd]

Ditched the Pixel 7 for the 23. Standby drain on Pixel 7 is 2-3x higher then on the S23. SOT in everyday use (my personal usecase) is around 7-8 hours on S23, whereas the Pixel 7 just got me around 5-6 hours. Love the stock Android experience, but Tensor G2 is just too damn inefficient.

[sammyt]

This style of battery test makes more sense that others who run a mix of different tasks from gaming to browsing to watching vids, since that mix would obviously differ from one person to the other. Thanks for the useful comparison; the S23 seems to have fixed the one problem that stopped me from buying it last year which was the subpar battery life. The Zenfone 9 would've been an option for me if it had wireless charging and was available where I live; maybe that will change with the Zenfone 10.

[Aeleas]

Thank you so much for covering the base s23! So hard to find anything on it.

[ChadH]

What i like about the s23 is light mode. I tried 60 hz on light mode and got 37 hours on 1 charge. 7 hours sot and 30 hours standby. Nice video!

[rahuldasgupta]

iPhone 13 and 14 isn't impressive by considering the fact that they have just 60hz refresh rate in comparison to s23. So S23 is very impressive.

[GTLifts]

Thank you.i have been waiting for the S23 battery test.

[greekkris]

I just want zenfone to have longer software & security update

[FedericoZucchini]

Comparing smartphones with different refresh rates doesn't have much sense. For example, S23 and iPhone 13 are similar in this tests, but to be fair, the S23 should be setted at 60Hz too. Bruh. Pixel 7 have 90Hz... Also: S23 is a BIG step toward S22 not for SOT only, but for idle battery drain that is way lower... SOT is not all

[ROGERDATTT]

Only reason why i prefer my s23 over my zenfone 9 is the camera and display. Otherwise the z9 is a perfect compact phone. I was hoping someone will make aramid case for it.

[ag-mvgh]

This is the best battery test I had ever seen..good job 👍

[sapio]

I would love other companies to investigate and know how did zenphone9 was able to Stay up for that long and optimise those other phones even more...

[rohanghosh]

what a great battery test man!!! you earned a sub!❤

[DarthOeron]

Huge respect to the Zenphone. Since my purchase with the iPhone 14 Pro battery life was amazing and still is. It’s a 1, 5 half day phone for my use case scenario, on LTE I’m averaging about 6:30 to 7 hrs of SOT.

[nicoslater]

Finally a battery test of the regular S23. Thanks.

[timmyj]

I haven't seen a full battery comparison for the zenfone 10 yet but seeing this and hearing that it's even better than the 9 makes me very excited

[williamwallace]

At how many nits do you set the screens with your battery tests?

[pepk]

I was thinking about to replace my zenfone 9 with the new galaxy s23 but after this test i will keep the zenfone. Thank you!