- The EU has published a smartphone battery duration database
- He suggests that Samsung’s ultra galaxy offers an excellent battery longevity
- There are many other interesting revelations found in the data.
If you are looking for the phone with the best battery life in your life, the European Union (EU) has just made your work a little easier. This is because it has published a battery classifications database (through Android Authority) for a large number of the best smartphones, and there are some fascinating revelations buried inside.
The search in the new EU European products data record for the energy labeling database is not particularly simple: it needs the model identifier of a phone instead of simply writing something like “Google Pixel 9A”, but once you have it, you can obtain information about the battery life, the input protection, the resistance to the fall and more.
That makes it a useful way to put the phones together and see which one has an advantage. For example, in the eternal battle between Samsung and Apple, we have compared the battery classifications of the Iphone 16 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Here, something interesting arises: the Ultra S25 is classified during the double cargo cycles of the battery as the iPhone.
Specifically, the EU recognizes that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is classified for 2,000 load cycles, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max is found in 1,000 cycles. That would seem to give Samsung a significant victory in the battery department, on paper.
However, it is not as clear as that. The “Battery Resistance per cycle” rating of the S25 Ultra is found in a hair of less than 45 hours, which the EU says means “how long the battery of a smartphone lasts from a complete load until when it needs to be recharged again.”
For the iPhone 16 Pro Max, its battery resistance per cycle is greater than 48 hours. Therefore, the iPhone could last a little more per load, but the Ultra S25 is classified for more load cycles.
Comparing the best smartphones
What about the load cycles of other popular phones? We have found the database tickets for the best devices on our list of the best smartphones and enter the previous graph for easy comparison.
Looking at the data, it is clear that OnePlus 13 greatly offers the longest load per cycle at 61 hours and 36 minutes. Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 Pro is the lower part of the package at 37 hours. But both phones are classified by 1,000 load cycles.
The total number of load cycles is not an estimate of how many can take the battery of a phone before it dies, but the number of full loads until it begins to see the degradation in its performance. Therefore, the previous figures are not necessarily an estimate of the general life cycle of a telephone.
How do we know how reliable all this is? It is almost certain that the information is self -report, which, one could think, could lead to doubtful scenarios and an incentive to falsify the numbers. However, there may be some reliability, since the EU has established regulations on how battery resistance should be measured. Presenting that they are being fulfilled, we can trust the numbers, although we cannot be 100% safe.
In addition to needing to carry these figures with a healthy degree of skepticism, there is also much more to decide which phone to buy than to look at their battery abilities. You should consider your chip, cameras, software, durability and much more. But if you take advantage of the battery life during the life of a phone above all others, the EU database could be a useful resource.
