



Well, our proprietary battery life benchmark has been done on the phone, and it shows exactly how good has Samsung gotten at optimizing its flagships for a great ratio of battery capacity and longevity. We got a bit over 12 hours of screen-on time in our demanding test, which jibes with Samsung's stated 16 hours of video playback on a charge, and the phone's 40% larger battery capacity. On the minus side, it takes 103 minutes to charge the battery to its full potential, compared to 78 minutes for the Galaxy S6, yet this is still an incredibly fast charging time.









Battery life (hours) Higher is better Samsung Galaxy S6 Active 12h 9 min (Excellent) Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 8h 11 min (Average) Samsung Galaxy S6 7h 14 min (Average) Sony Xperia Z3 9h 29 min (Good) LG G4 6h 6 min (Poor) HTC One M9 6h 25 min (Poor) Huawei P8 7h 12 min (Average) Charging time (minutes) Lower is better Samsung Galaxy S6 Active 103 Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 83 Samsung Galaxy S6 78 Sony Xperia Z3 235 LG G4 127 HTC One M9 106 Huawei P8 180 View all

Our review bee is working hard on outing their first impressions from the Galaxy S6 Active , and we know what you are most curious about - this phone has a much larger battery than the Galaxy S6 itself, after all, right? With a 3500 mAh unit, how do Samsung's frugal screen, chipset, and software optimizations fare, when compared to the 2550 mAh unit in the S6?