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I got a Huawei Y6 about half a year ago. It's got its share of crapware preinstalled, but it's very little and unobtrusive compared to what Samsung puts out the
by krylon 10y ago
I got a Huawei Y6 about half a year ago. It's got its share of crapware preinstalled, but it's very little and unobtrusive compared to what Samsung puts out there.
I usually keep Wifi, Mobile data, Bluetooth, and GPS turned on 24/7, and listen to music via Bluetooth headphones when commuting to and from work.
I haven't tried how long the battery will last when pushed, but when used lightly (i.e. music and the occasional text message) it will last at least 48 hours, probably more like 72. I usually charge it over night, but I forgot a few times, and on the next evening the phone was still at ~60% charge.
The specs are not overly impressive - 2GB RAM, 4GB internal storage (it has a MicroSD slot, though), I don't remember what CPU. But for my lowly needs, performance is satisfactory. Plus, it was pretty cheap, I got mine for about €140,- off of Amazon. The battery is removable.
There are two drawbacks, first of all this model is on a version of Android 5.x and won't get updates, secondly 4GB internal storage is not that much. There are other models by Huawei, though, that come with more recent versions of Android and are still quite affordable.
I don't know how long this phone will last. I usually use my phones until they just won't work any more, so six months is not a long time in my book. But I have no serious complaints so far.
- GFischer 10y agoI had a Huawei Ascend P7, and while its performance was a little worse than advertised (not really flagship power, more like a midrange phone), I was extremely impressed by its battery management (and the build quality was pretty good). It lasts up to 2 days without any special care, it has an app that aggresively monitors and throttles background tasks though.
- prodmerc 10y agoHuawei huh, kinda turned me off when I bought their premium Ascend P6 and while it was well built, it had weird issues with the GPS (not working at all while driving), screen artifacts and micro SD card being constantly removed. Oh and everything was seriously underclocked, CPU, GPU and RAM. It only went to maximum clocks after being over 99% load for a few seconds, so pretty much never, OR when it ran a benchmark app. Smartasses. Fortunately it was really easy to undervolt and over clock (well, clock to advertised specs, at which it got hot as hell and ate through the battery faster than it would charge). Really liked the hackability of that SOC, but Huawei pretty much lied about its performance.
- GFischer 10y agoYeah they definitely lied through their teeth about performance. I probably won't buy again. But it did have great battery performance. I switched to an LG G3 and it's battery duration is awful (it has way too much screen I guess), and it still has stupid lags and freezes.
- prodmerc 10y agoEvery single phone I've had I've installed clean ROMs without any extras, and with multiple governors to choose from. Undervolting was useful every single time, too. But that's just optimizing your phone. Sadly I don't know any phone that will last more than 5 hours of total screen on time (web browser, emails, notes app, messages, with 3G/wifi/Bluetooth on). Every generation has some ridiculous additions (4K displays, LTE, more RAM and Ghz) that make battery life the same as a good old Droid. Ive been using a HTC One M8 and can squeeze 5 hours of screen on (screen+3G/Wifi+BT, never LTE) time even with adaptive brightness on (which runs it at 100% a lot of times), on CyanogenMod (Android 5.1) with no extra crap. That's enough for a good day of use - charge at night, use during the day, it's at about 30% in the evening. GPS use can kill it though. I would love a phone that can last 12 hours straight like that :)