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we're lucky enough to live at a time we're pretty much any phone you can buy will give you a day's worth of casual use before it needs a recharge but still some of you need more whether you're a gamer a YouTube fanatic or just someone who never puts down their phone this week's top 5 is for you I'm counting down cnet's list the smart phones with the longest battery life based on cnet labs continuous video playback test sorry Apple fans they're all Android starting off at number five with 14 hours of continuous video playback the samsung galaxy s3 mini now I know you smartphone snobs won't be caught dead with this thing now that the galaxy s4 is out but the s3 mini is still hailed is one of the best entry level Android phones around you get android 4.2 4g LTE NFC and a good camera and a design that actually fits in your pocket throw in the battery life and a price of just one dollar on contract and we can just stop this list right here but we won't because at number four we have the samsung galaxy expressed with 14 and a half hours this one gets you a little closer to the s4 in terms of screen and specs but you're still compromising to get that hundred dollar price that said yes for only tested ten and a half hours on our video loop so don't think that paying more automatically translates into better battery life except when it comes to number three the galaxy note 3 when the phones as big as your face you can really fit a lot of battery in there in this case you get 15 hours of video playback on a 5.7 inch screen that you really actually might catch yourself watching videos on this is a killer smartphone and only the first one on this list that any self-respecting phone geek would even consider being seen with coming in at number two with a video loop score of nearly 16 hours the motorola droid maxx on verizon you don't put max in your name unless you really mean business they even crammed an extra X in there anymore battery and this would be a pornographic phone maybe people to start adding vowels like mad seriously though it's a great fun now before we get to the number one phone for battery life let's take a look at the other side of the spectrum here are five phones only out on the market the had shamefully bad battery life I wish I could have been in the room when they were picking the names for the alcatel evolve evolve you can only go up from here all right and finally the phone that scored the best in our cnet Labs video drain test the LG G flex yes the curved phone 17 hours and 49 minutes and that's with a 6 inch screen on top of that this thing can take 88 pounds of pressure and is covered in self-healing paint this is a phone that can stand up to all day abuse so there you have it 5 android smartphones with incredible battery life to see what number six would have been though check out our roundup over on cnet com and also for more top 5s from me top 5 cnet com Donald Bell thanks for watching