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hi there my name's Gary Sims from Android or authority now people are always wondering what is the best smartphone that you can buy now we try to take the guesswork out that decision for you and in this installment or best of Android we're turning our attention to batteries which smartphone has the best battery so if you're ready let's go now before we get started let remind you of the smartphones that we're looking at in our best of Android series I'll give them to you now in no particular order we started with the Sony z5 premium then we're looking at the Nexus 6p then the LG v10 the note 5 the Motorola Droid turbo 2 which internationally is known as the Moto X force and the Blackberry proved now which of these devices has the best battery we're going to find out so really the first question is which phone charges the quickest if you can always meaning to charge your phone every day from the mini to be charging it on the move it's good to know which phone can charge quickest so let's have a look at our test results as you can see from these results the Moto X force actually has the quickest charging time at just under 70 minutes in second place you have the LG v10 followed by the note 5 unfortunately the worst performance comes from the BlackBerry Prive which takes over a hundred and fifty minutes to reach full charge now there are different ways of testing the battery one is to use some battery testing apps which is what we've done and other ways through manual testing and kind of use a stopwatch to see how many minutes you can get out of the phone we've done that as well let's start with the battery testing apps so here you can see we use two different testing apps and two two and Geekbench and the higher the score the better and we can see from this that the Moto X force has the highest score for antutu and we can also see that the Moto X force has the lowest score for Geekbench so that gives us an interesting situation one app tells us the phone is very very good and the other app tells us the phone is very very bad so actually I'm not going to put much stock in these results I think it's better if we turn to our manual testing and see what we found out so to test a standby time what we did was take each phone and reset it to the factory defaults then we added a few social media account a gmail account and the BBC news application and then switch the phone off and see how much the battery dropped over a period of 24 hours then we use that number to extrapolate to see what the total standby time would be so let's have a look at the results as you can see the best standby time came from the Nexus 6p with almost 220 hours of standby time next came the galaxy note 5 followed by that blackberry Prive now the worst score was registered by the Moto X force aka the droid turbo - with only a hundred and thirty three hours however go remember one hundred and thirty three hours it's over five days so even our worst score here is actually pretty reasonable for our next test I wrote a particular custom app that we're going to use which cycled through six web pages leaving a 20-second pause between each webpage the phones were using Wi-Fi and not 3G or 4G and we let this run from a hundred percent battery all the way down to less than five percent and just so many how many hours you could sit there loading web pages simulating a quick pause as you read the web page click on a link and on to the next web page so let's have a look at the results so three phones here you've got very good scores the LG v10 came in first followed by the galaxy note 5 and then the Moto X force now each of these achieved over 550 minutes of web browsing time the worst score here was registered by the Nexus 6p we've just under 400 minutes remember those battery testing apps I talked about a few moments ago but one thing that does come out of the geek page battery test is a maximum number of minutes that the phone will work for and here are the results that Kate Bane's gave us for it run time numbers the best result comes from the galaxy note 5 by a long way followed by this Nexus 6p and the Sony z5 premium however as with other tests I don't really put much stock in these results for the next test we looped a HD video around and round and round again to see how many hours you'd get of video playing on each of these devices again we started 100% we set the video running and we left the phone right down till it discharged or somewhere under 5% so if we look at these results we can see that the Galaxy Note 5 had very very impressive run in fact it made over ten hours of video playback which is quite impressive when you consider the resolution and the size of the screen on that device in joint second place we find the BlackBerry Prive and the Moto X force the worst score would registered by the z5 premium but again you might be to excuse that because it has of course caught that 4k display so what does all this mean well the phone with the fastest charging time was of course the Droid turbo to the Motorola X force now that is an amazing charging time of just 69 minutes especially when you consider the size of its battery three thousand seven hundred and sixty milliamp hours however it didn't do so well in all of our tests didn't really win many of the tests now the phone had the best standby time was the Nexus 6p but again when it came to the video looping test and it came to the web-browsing test it didn't do that well now the phone that seems to give you a reasonable charging time and seemed to be good at generally through all the tests was in fact the Galaxy Note 5 now if you want to see all of the individual reports and all the individual numbers and please check out the written companion that goes along with this video on the and rathore accom website also please don't forget to check out our other best of Android videos that we are publishing around at this time also please don't forget to subscribe to the Android Authority YouTube channel you can follow me on social media and don't forget to check out our other videos and as for me I'm there see you in my next video