During the presentation of this year’s renewed iPhone SE, Apple itself promised them very happily, talking about how the A15 Bionic chip could give us a battery life at the level of the iPhone 13. This made many think about buying this model, which aimed to be the good and cheap of the company, however, until we know the results, we do not really know what it offers.
That moment has come and we have been able to verify thanks to the complete TomsGuide test that it is far from being a smartphone that can boast of autonomy. We still don’t know the battery capacity of this model, but everything indicates that it is close to the 2406 mAh of the iPhone 13 Mini, a smartphone that did not do very well in the tests either.
It falls well below the average range of Android
The main attraction of Apple’s cheap mobile is to become an alternative for those looking for an affordable terminal in the Android world, where we have manufacturers and options to bore you. However, the battery is far from at the level and that will cause many to prefer to continue being part of the ecosystem they already know, and even others, forget about the bitten apple to seek better results.
As we show you in the results image, the tests in which the phone with 5G has been used, with the brightness at 22% and loading different web pages every 30 minutes, this mobile reaches 9 hours and 7 minutes of autonomy. Something that is not bad at all, but that is far from the 12 hours and 19 minutes that the Samsung Galaxy A52 achieves or even the Pixel 5a that reaches 9 hours and 45 minutes.
Within the Apple landscape, the iPhone 13s go over it remarkably, showing that not everything is in the processor and that many other aspects matter when it comes to ensuring that a mobile lasts a long time on. But another point that draws a lot of attention is that the 2020 iPhone SE, with which it shares design and many sections, comes to offer better autonomy. This is most likely due to connectivity, which in this case is 4G.
Is the problem 5G?
We cannot lay all the blame for the autonomy of the text on this section, but without a doubt it is partly to blame for the results. Sure, if we try to repeat the effort with 4G, we get a few extra minutes, but we would not really be testing all the possibilities of the smartphone. The Galaxy A52 itself was also tested at 120 Hz, giving us the best it could offer, and then the autonomy dropped considerably.
In this case, the iPhone SE 2022 only has a 60 Hz refresh rate and it is normal to try to find out how much it can offer us with maximum battery health and taking advantage of its complete connectivity system, which is also one of the few novelties regarding to his predecessor. We will see if after these results, Apple’s economic model returns to sell so well around the planet.