do you long for the days when your phone
would last for a week on a single charge
well do we ever have the solution for
you introducing
the linus tech tips battery expander
just slap it on
strap it on
plug it in and
enjoy yeah
that's pretty ridiculous isn't it and
yet here we are
11 years after the introduction of the
original iphone
and pretty much this legitimately
is basically the solution being pitched
both by apple and by third parties to
address their
shoddy a whole day asterisk
as long as you don't use it too much
battery life
has anyone considered that there might
be a better way
you know maybe we could i i don't know
just
put a bigger battery in the phone in the
first place
well that is exactly what eulephone did
the power 5 is an android smartphone
with 5 times the battery capacity
of the latest iphone 10s and they claim
this thing can last for a week between
charges
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13 000 milliamp hours
that's the advertised capacity of the
power 5 and
in a phone that is utterly massive
like to put that in perspective the
latest iphone 10s
battery is 2600 milliamp hours
the pixel 3 xl weighs in slightly
thicker
at 3 400 milliamp hours and
even the note 9 which samsung advertises
as
all day has a mere 4 000
milliamp hour battery in it that puts
the power 5
at five times 3.8 and 3.25 times
larger capacity than these phones
respectively that's
a lot of juice it really is basically
like carrying around a regular phone
and a pretty beefy battery pack which
translates to some
interesting results but let's talk a bit
about the rest of the phone first it's
pretty much your standard affair budget
offshore android device
with a six inch 1080p screen that
manages to be
unremarkable both in terms of image
quality and feel
a relatively slow eight core cpu
somewhere around the level of a one plus
three
and north american cellular band support
that's a little bit limited
as for aesthetics some people are
probably
actually gonna quite like this but
i think it suffers from kind of a dated
appearance jake got lg g4 vibes from the
back and as for me i'm reminded of those
leather cases that people used to get
for their really old brick phones you
know like the really old ones the ones
with the little like flip out mouthpiece
and the antenna that comes up
brandon do you see that at all yeah
right yuck
other than that it doesn't really seem
like anything special
that is until you pick the thing up the
sheer girth
and more notably the weight of it is
like nothing that i've experienced in a
modern phone
again we need context for this the power
5
is exactly twice as thick
as the pixel 3 xl and the phone weighs
almost
three-quarters of a pound that is 330
grams for the metric folks out there
like it's kind of funny because on the
one hand it will be
actually impossible for many people to
operate one-handed
and it's not even top-heavy it just kind
of feels like it
because there is so much weight hanging
off the top of your hand
on the other hand though it actually
gives it sort of a like
premium feel that you wouldn't expect
from a 250
smartphone that and if you got in a
fight like you hit someone put this in
your head no i'm serious
the speakers or i should say speaker
there's just one
are what i would describe as usable
unless you listen to something decent
first and realize how much you're
missing
the dual front and rear cameras are
actually not the worst thing ever
but they use a sony sensor from 2015 so
that should give you some idea of the
era of smartphone camera quality to
expect it's a far cry from a pixel 3 but
honestly would probably be fine for most
people that is
unlike the fingerprint sensor which only
seems to work
a fraction of the time no matter how
many times we tried to set it up
and even with all five fingerprint slots
and software
used by the same finger with that said
at least when it does work
you are in for a treat just kidding it's
really slow
but to be honest i think a lot of people
could probably make those compromises
for the added stamina that this phone
affords
if that's important to them like let's
say you're the kind of person who
regularly flies between washington dc
and moscow for work even if you were to
watch videos during that entire
12 or 13 hour travel time the eulophone
wouldn't break a sweat during our
testing
it lasted for a staggering 31 and a half
hours of continuous watching youtube
videos
remember that's with wi-fi active
by comparison the pixel 3 xl slummed it
with just under 14 hours
and hey the power 5 even supports
glonass
russia's version of gps so you won't get
lost while you're over there
okay but how about something a little
more indicative of regular phone use
let's say a combined workload of web
browsing photo and video editing
writing and data manipulation well pc
mark's work 2.0 benchmark hits
the phone with this sort of mishmash of
common workloads
without any standby time in between and
again
the eulophone impresses with 3.6
times the effective battery life of
google's latest and greatest
so with some quick napkin math here
let's say
you know four hours of that kind of load
per day you would end up with more than
nine days of battery life like obviously
you'd still have some standby usage
but to say that a week of battery life
on this thing is possible
would actually be pretty safe alright
now let's talk about gaming imagine for
a moment
playing a mobile game on your phone
literally
all day going to sleep then doing the
same thing
all the next day without having to plug
in
that's possible and then at the opposite
end of the scale
what about going on a week-long
backcountry camping trip
using just your phone for navigation
like the possibilities that this thing
unlocks
are freaking bananas
so much so that i actually kind of
wondered if the thing would even finish
charging overnight but it actually
doesn't take that long so
the included wall board here is spec for
their own style of quick charging with a
slightly odd
although oneplus has a similar scheme
five volt
five amp output that juices the phone
from zero to a hundred percent
in a rated two and a half hours although
your mileage
may vary slightly so bottom line
yeah we know battery life isn't a
problem for everyone
you might have a place to plug in at
your desk or in the car
or on the plane and honestly speaking
for how much heavier this phone is
it might actually be more convenient for
folks who don't want to get their phone
arm
all like jacked to just carry a battery
bank in their purse or backpack or
whatever
but we'll let you guys be the judge of
that in fact we'll let you guys be the
judge of
what the best way forward is in general
leave a comment
is the convenience here worth the
compromise
should we stick to the status quo or
should we maybe try and find a middle
ground like i personally
have wanted for a long time to see a 6
000 or
7 000 milliamp hour phone with like an
endurance edition
from a tier one manufacturer like
samsung or apple or google
am i ever gonna get that probably not
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