Compare iPad battery and Android tablets

Tablets based on the Android operating system, whether they are small with a 4-inch display or a diagonal of 10 inches, could never catch up with the iPad in terms of the duration of the work battery. New generation iPad, Demonstrate to the public Apple executives at a recent conference in October, heads the list of the most "Long-lived" tablets in the "senior" category of 10-inch devices and a leader in the "younger" group is the iPad mini with 7-inch screen.

British consumer resource Which? It conducted its own independent testing, which carefully measured the duration of some of the most popular models of tablets with an average usage activity - viewing web pages on the Wi-Fi (and 3G) and video playback. The screen brightness was set at around 200 units, which was separately measured and recorded special device to any device has not received an advantage due to the unusual setting of manufacturer.

As mentioned at the beginning of the notes in the category of tablets with larger screens lead the new iPad with Retina-display with a figure of 811 minutes on a single charge (13.5 hours) and the second

suddenly It takes the iPad 2, which was released, incidentally, one and a half years ago, in March 2011. He demonstrated a remarkable result in 590 minutes (9.8 hours), which is a little further behind tablets based on Android - Sony Xperia Tablet S (534 minutes) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (532 minutes).

Interestingly, the tablet Microsoft Surface RT rounded out the top five, and gave a good indicator in the 501 minute (8.3 hour). Worst of all of those models which were tested by the British magazine, spoke Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with a modest score of 335 minutes.

In the group with 7-inch screens the first line is occupied with iPad mini-ring 783 minutes of battery life (13 hours) that as much as three hours behind nearest rival, Amazon Kindle Fire HD with the figure of 591 per minute (9.8 hours). Third place went to Google Nexus 7 from the 550 minutes that about 9 hours and 10 minutes.

Surely many readers now have a reasonable question in mind - why did Apple devices work so well on the battery? The answer lies in one simple truth - Apple engineers are working in a close team and use the maximum potential from the integration of hardware and software. Consider one simple illustrative example. At that time, both the iOS multitasking many inactive applications become the «Suspended» mode and practically do not consume device resources on All Android operating system have the complete freedom and may adversely affect the battery even when the user has finished with application.

Of course, you can give other explanations for why the iDevices are far ahead of their competitors in terms of battery life. Write your opinion in the comments, it would be interesting to discuss with you about it. :)