Is 6 hours of SOT good?

[smeek14]

Hey, I recently purchased a smartphone.  I get about 6 hours of screen on time from a single charge with brightness all the way up and wifi/location enabled.  Is this considered good compared to other smartphones?

[Rolfejc]

Yeah I would say it isn't too bad. I still have many things to learn about phones, but I think the max for a phone was around ~8 hours for on screen time if I'm not mistaken. 

[beebskadoo]

SOT means nothing unless you are actually doing something with the phone at the time.

My Nexus 6 can get 6 hours of SOT on wifi with location and bluetooth on with a fairly medium use case (a few hours of youtube, imgur, reddit, a few calls and a lot of hangouts messages) Though now that I am on Android N preview the battery life isn't nearly as good

If you have a medium workload than I would say that 6 hours SOT is really good.

 

It would help if you posted screen shots and also told us what kind of phone you had

[beebskadoo]

7 minutes ago, Rolfejc said:

Yeah I would say it isn't too bad. I still have many things to learn about phones, but I think the max for a phone was around ~8 hours for on screen time if I'm not mistaken. 

It all depends on what you are doing with the phone. SOT means next to nothing without context.

[Rolfejc]

1 minute ago, beebskadoo said:

It all depends on what you are doing with the phone. SOT means next to nothing without context.

Good point. 

[smeek14]

4 minutes ago, beebskadoo said:

SOT means nothing unless you are actually doing something with the phone at the time.

My Nexus 6 can get 6 hours of SOT on wifi with location and bluetooth on with a fairly medium use case (a few hours of youtube, imgur, reddit, a few calls and a lot of hangouts messages) Though now that I am on Android N preview the battery life isn't nearly as good

If you have a medium workload than I would say that 6 hours SOT is really good.

 

It would help if you posted screen shots and also told us what kind of phone you had

OK.  I have a Galaxy s7 edge.  I am watching YouTube and Web browsing, playing games, looking at news.  Generic smartphone things

[beebskadoo]

1 minute ago, smeek14 said:

OK.  I have a Galaxy s7 edge.  I am watching YouTube and Web browsing, playing games, looking at news.  Generic smartphone things

yeah that seems pretty good considering your workload. Though be aware that Samsung has a history of releasing Android updates that significantly decrease battery life for their phones. Hopefully this changes with the S7 and S7 Edge but time will tell

[westonb27]

1 hour ago, smeek14 said:

Hey, I recently purchased a smartphone.  I get about 6 hours of screen on time from a single charge with brightness all the way up and wifi/location enabled.  Is this considered good compared to other smartphones?

Congrats on the nice SOT #humblebrag