“Which? Tech Daily recently carried out a series of tests to determine which tablet is the one to beat when it comes to battery life,” Yoni Heisler reports for TUAW.
“The results?” Heisler reports. “The iPad Air absolutely crushed the competition.”
“What’s more, the test results show that the iPad Air performed even better than advertised, delivering nearly 13 hours of battery life during video playback,” Heisler reports. “Even the iPad 2, released all the way back in 2011 performed better than most of the competition.”
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Stupid android is a power hungry bloated operating system that requires xtra CPU Horse power to run it, meaning pour quality battery life, no way any non apple tablets running on android will compete with the superior iOS iPad
cococanuck. Its on the surface treading water furiously!
Where’s Surface in all of this?
Dead
With Zune and Kin
Surface and its complicated windows operating system is a flop and a financial disaster, Surface 1 was a $800 million write off and the surface 2 will cross the 1$ billion+ loss this year, so its the android tablets that are the relevant competition. Regarding the MS Surface, why kick someone when its down, lets be the bigger person and leave MS out of it and deal with the android junk thats out there
Well 3 answers, but none to address your question. I guess we’ll never know. I’d guess that the RT might have been decent, but pretty sure the pro sucks up more power than a lot of android tablets.
Any tablet with built in hot air vents is going to be a juice guzzler.
I think it ran out of juice before reaching the starting line
Who?
I love my iPad 2. I may upgrade finally with the next release. But really, I charge my iPad 2 once or twice a week. I watch movies in my Apple TV via plex and airplay, and I get several movies and daily usage before I need to recharge the thing.
Not bad for a battery that’s three years old or more.
Really remarkable thing about Apple batteries, not only are they good on day one they are still good years later.
Let’s see them repeat this test with equipment that is one or two years old.
I agree for the iPad, but on the iphone this is not the case, battery life is not great at the start but after 6 months awful.
Try letting it run completely down to zero and then fully recharge it once in a while.
This thread reminds of the movie Wall•e. After mankind abandoned earth, Wall•E keeps running for centuries with his rechargeable battery, running on Mac OS.
My original iPad from 2010 is still going strong. Bought an iPad Air this week so I’m still putting it through its paces.
iPad Air is the best. I just hope this will encourage other companies to make longer lasting gadgets as well.