Phones With the Best Battery Life

Have you ever felt your cell phone vibrate and pulled it out of your pocket, expecting to to see a text or e-mail message, only to see a low-battery warning instead? Surely, you've uttered the dreaded words, "My phone is dying, so I have to say this fast!"

 Smartphones, with their big touch screens and fast processors, suck up a lot of power, so I’m not expecting to make it through the week on a single charge. Still, there’s no excuse for not being able to make it through the day.

For most smartphones running on a 3G network, the average talk time is a little over five hours, which isn't bad. There are also a good number of phones that fall in the six-hour range, which is even better. For the phones that support it, we also measure audio streaming time over 4G LTE, because 4G has proven to be a major battery suck. Right now, the average streaming time is just under four hours.

For this list, we’re rounding up phones that delivered at least seven hours of talk time—some go well beyond that—which should be more than enough juice to get you from morning to evening without a charge.

RATINGS	Editor Reader     Motorola Droid RAZR MAxx	Editor         Samsung Galaxy S III	Motorola Atrix 2	Editor Reader     Motorola Droid Bionic	Editor          Motorola Droid 3	Motorola Admiral	Samsung Exhibit II SGH-T679 4G	Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch	Editor Reader     T-Mobile myTouch 4G	Motorola Electrify
Operating System:	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS	Android OS
Screen Size:	4.3 inches	4.3 inches	4.3 inches	4.3 inches	4 inches	3.1 inches	3.7 inches	4.5 inches	3.8 inches	4.3 inches
Screen Details:	960-by-540 Super AMOLED Addvanced screen	800-by-480 Super AMOLED Plus screen	540-by-960-pixel, 16M color, TFT capacitive touch screen	960-by-540 Pentile TFT LCD screen	960-by-540 LCD capacitive touch screen	480-by-640, TFT LCD capacitive touch screen	480-by-800-pixel, 16M color, TFT capacitive touch screen	800-by-480 Super AMOLED Plus screen	800-by-480 TFT LCD capacitive touch screen	540-by-960-pixel, 16M color, TFT capacitive touch screen
Camera:	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Megapixels:	8 MP	8 MP	4 MP	8 MP	8 MP	5 MP	3 MP	8 MP	5 MP	8 MP
Camera Flash:	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
802.11x:	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bluetooth:	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web Browser:	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Form Factor:	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Slider	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Candy Bar	Candy Bar
Network:	CDMA	GSM, UMTS	GSM, UMTS	GSM, CDMA	GSM, CDMA, UMTS	CDMA	GSM, UMTS	CDMA	GSM, UMTS	CDMA
Bands:	850, 1900, 700	850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100	850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100	850, 1900, 700	850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100	800, 1900	850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100, 1700	850, 1900, 2600	850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100	850, 1900
High-Speed Data:	EVDO Rev A, LTE	GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA	EDGE, HSPA+ 21	EVDO Rev A, LTE	GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EVDO Rev A	EVDO Rev A	EDGE, HSPA 14.4, HSPA+ 21, HSPA 7.2	EVDO Rev A, WiMAX	GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA	EVDO Rev A
Push To Talk:						Yes
Storage Capacity (as Tested):	16 GB	16 GB	4.33 GB	8 GB	11.35 GB	4 GB	2.6 GB	16 GB	1 GB	11.57 GB
Processor Speed:	1.2 GHz	1.2 GHz	1 GHz	1 GHz	1 GHz	1.2 GHz	1 GHz	1.2 GHz	1 GHz	1 GHz
Keyboard:	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Continuous Talk Time:	16 hours 45 minutes	11 hours 07 minutes	10 hours 43 minutes	10 hours 35 minutes	9 hours 53 minutes	9 hours 53 minutes	9 hours 37 minutes	8 hours 48 minutes	8 hours 05 minutes	7 hours 51 minutes

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