- The EU has published a database of the lifespan of the smartphone battery
- He suggests that Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra offers excellent battery longevity
- There are many other interesting revelations found in the data
If you are looking for the phone with the best autonomy of the battery throughout its life, the European Union (EU) has just made your work easier. Indeed, he published a battery dimension database (via Android Authority) for a large number of best smartphones, and there are fascinating revelations buried inside.
Research in the new European EU European product register for the energy labeling database is not particularly simple – you need the model identifier number of a phone rather than just typing something like “Google Pixel 9a” – but once you have it, you can get information on battery life, input protection, Fall resistance and more.
This makes it a useful way to put phones against each other and to see what advantage. For example, in the eternal battle between Samsung and Apple, we compared the battery notes of the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Here, something interesting emerges: the ultra S25 is evaluated for twice as many battery charging cycles as the iPhone.
More specifically, the EU estimates that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is evaluated for 2,000 load cycles, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max is at 1,000 cycles. This seems to give Samsung a significant victory in the battery department, on paper.
However, it is not as clear as that. The “endurance by cycle” note of the S25 Ultra battery is found at a hair of less than 45 hours, which, according to the EU, means “how long the battery of a smartphone of a full charging load lasts again.”
For the iPhone 16 Pro Max, its battery endurance by cycle is higher at 48 hours. Thus, the iPhone can last a little more time per load, but the Ultra S25 is assessed for more load cycles in total.
Comparison of the best smartphones
What about the load cycles of other popular phones? We found the database inputs for the main devices in our list of the best smartphones and entered them in the graph above for an easy comparison.
Looking at the data, it is clear that the OnePlus 13 by far offers the longest load per cycle at 61 hours and 36 minutes. The iPhone 16 Pro is at the bottom of the pack at 37 hours. But both phones are evaluated for 1,000 load cycles.
The total number of load cycles is not an estimate of the number of batteries in a phone before his death, but rather the number of full charges until you start to see the degradation of its performance. The above figures are therefore not necessarily an estimate of the overall life cycle of a phone.
How do we know how reliable it is? The information is almost certainly self -deprecated, which – you think – could lead to doubtful scenarios and an incentive to merge the figures. There could be a certain reliability, however, because the EU has established regulations on the way in which the endurance of the battery should be measured. About those who are respected, we can trust the figures a little, although we cannot be 100%sure.
In addition to needing to take these figures with a healthy degree of skepticism, there is also much more that will decide which phone to buy just to look at your battery capacities. You must consider his chip, his cameras, his software, his durability and much more. But if you write the battery life during the life of a phone above all, the EU database could be a useful resource.
