We check each facet of a brand new telephone from the battery and processor to the cameras.
We check each telephone in real-world eventualities specializing in its options, design, efficiency, cameras, battery life and general worth. We doc our findings in an preliminary evaluation that’s periodically up to date when there are new software program updates or to match towards new telephones from telephones from rivals like Apple, Samsung, Google and OnePlus.
Pictures
Pictures is a serious focus for many telephones nowadays, so we take footage and movies of assorted topics in a wide range of settings and lighting eventualities. We check out any new digital camera modes equivalent to Motion mode that debuted with the iPhone 14 line or the Unblur picture instrument that launched with the Google Pixel 7 sequence.
Battery life
Battery testing is performed in a wide range of methods. We assess how lengthy a telephone lasts throughout a typical day of use, and word the way it performs throughout extra targeted classes of video calls, media streaming and gaming. We additionally conduct a video playback check, which is not all the time included within the preliminary evaluation and added later in an replace.
Efficiency
We use benchmarking apps to measure the efficiency, alongside our personal anecdotal experiences utilizing the telephone for our evaluation. Of explicit word are how graphics and animations look. Are they clean? Or do they lag or stutter? We additionally have a look at how shortly the telephone switches between horizontal and vertical orientations and how briskly the digital camera app opens and is able to take a photograph.
We carry out processor-heavy duties like modifying photographs, exporting movies and taking part in video games. We consider whether or not a more moderen model of a specific telephone contains sufficient options to make it value upgrading from older fashions.
Learn extra: How We Test Phones
