his Phone lasts an ENTIRE WEEK #Helpful Post

do you long for the days when your phone

would last for a week on a single charge

well do we ever have the solution for

you

introducing the Linus tech tips battery

expander just slap it on strap it on

plug it in and enjoy yeah that's pretty

ridiculous isn't it and yet here we are

eleven years after the introduction of

the original iPhone and pretty much this

legitimately is basically the solution

being pitched both by Apple and by third

parties to address their shoddy a

whole-day

asterisk as long as you don't use it too

much battery life has anyone considered

that there might be a better way you

know maybe we could I don't know just

put a bigger battery in the phone in the

first place well that is exactly what

you the phone did the power 5 is an

Android smartphone with five times the

battery capacity of the latest iPhone

10s and they claim this thing can last

for a week between charges look at it I

might just believe them and you know

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13,000 milliamp hours

that's the advertised capacity of the

power five and in a phone that is

utterly massive like to put that in

perspective the latest iPhone 10s s

battery is 2600 milliamp hours the pixel

3 Excel weighs in slightly thicker at

3400 milliamp hours and even the note 9

which Samsung advertises as all day has

a mere four thousand milliamp hour

battery in it that puts the power five

at five times three point eight and

three point two five times larger

capacity than these phones respectively

that's a lot of juice it really is

basically like carrying around a regular

phone and a pretty beefy battery pack

which translates to some interesting

results but let's talk a bit about the

rest of the phone first it's pretty much

your standard a fair budget offshore

Android device with a six inch 1080p

screen that manages to be unremarkable

both in terms of image quality and feel

a relatively slow eight core CPU

somewhere around the level of a one plus

three and northamericans cellular band

support that's a little bit limited as

for aesthetics

some people are probably actually gonna

quite like this but I think it suffers

from kind of a dated appearance Jake got

LG g4 vibes from the back and as for me

I'm reminded of those leather cases that

people used to get for their really old

brick phones you know like the really

old ones the ones with the little like

flip out mouthpiece and the antenna that

comes up bright and you do you see that

at all yeah right yuck other than that

it doesn't really seem like anything

special that is until you pick the thing

up the sheer girth and more notably the

weight of it is like nothing that I've

experienced in a modern phone again

we need context for this the power 5 is

exactly twice as thick as the pixel 3 XL

and the phone weighs almost

three-quarters of a pound that is 330

grams for the metric folks out there

like it's kind of funny because on the

one hand

it will be actually impossible for many

people to operate one-handed and it's

not even top-heavy it just kind of feels

like it because there is so much weight

hanging off the top of your hand on the

other hand though it actually gives it

sort of a like premium feel that you

wouldn't expect from a 250 dollar

smartphone baton if you got in a fight

rig you can someone with this in your

head no I'm serious

the speakers or I should say speaker

there's just one or what I would

describe as useable unless you listen to

something decent first and realize how

much you're missing the dual front and

rear cameras are actually not the worst

thing ever but they use a Sony sensor

from 2015 so that should give you some

idea of the era of smartphone camera

quality to expect it's a far cry from

the pixel 3 but honestly it would

probably be fine for most people that is

unlike the fingerprint sensor which only

seems to work a fraction of the time no

matter how many times we tried to set it

up and even with all 5 fingerprint slots

and software used by the same finger

with that said at least when it does

work you are in for a treat just kidding

it's really slow but to be honest I

think a lot of people could probably

make those compromises for the added

stamina that this phone affords if

that's important to them like let's say

you're the kind of person who regularly

flies between Washington DC and Moscow

for work even if you were to watch

videos during that entire 12 or 13 hour

travel time the EULA phone wouldn't

break a sweat during our testing it

lasted for a staggering 31 and a half

hours of continuous watching YouTube

videos remember that's with Wi-Fi active

by comparison the pixel 3xl slum dit

with just under 14 hours and hey the

power 5 even supports GLONASS Russia's

version of GPS so you won't get lost

while you're over there ok but how about

something a little more and ikut of of

regular phone use let's say a combined

workload of web browsing photo and video

editing writing and data manipulation

well PC marks work 2.0 benchmark hits

the phone with this sort of mishmash of

common workflow

without any standby time in between and

again the EULA phone impresses with 3.6

times the effective battery life of

Google's latest and greatest so with

some quick napkin math here let's say

you know four hours of that kind of load

per day you would end up with more than

nine days of battery life like obviously

you'd still have some standby usage but

to say that a week of battery life on

this thing is possible would actually be

pretty safe all right now let's talk

about gaming imagine for a moment

playing a mobile game on your phone

literally all day going to sleep then

doing the same thing all the next day

without having to plug in that's

possible and then at the opposite end of

the scale what about going on a

week-long backcountry camping trip using

just your phone for navigation like the

possibility is that this thing unlocks

are freaking bananas so much so that I

actually kind of wondered if the thing

would even finish charging overnight but

it actually doesn't take that long so

the included wall board here is SPECT

for their own style of quick charging

with a slightly odd although one plus

has a similar scheme five volt

five amp output that juices the phone

from zero to a hundred percent in a

rated two and a half hours although your

mileage may vary slightly

so bottom line yeah we know battery life

isn't a problem for everyone you might

have a place to plug in at your desk or

in the car or on the plane and honestly

speaking for how much heavier this phone

is it might actually be more convenient

for folks who don't want to get their

phone arm all like jacked to just carry

a battery bank in their purse or

backpack or whatever but we'll let you

guys be the judge of that

in fact we'll let you guys be the judge

of what the best way forward is in

general leave a comment is the

convenience here worth the compromise

should we stick to the status quo or

should we maybe try and find a middle

ground like I personally have wanted for

a long

to see a 6,000 or 7,000 milliamp hour

phone with like an endurance Edition

from a Tier one manufacturer like

Samsung or Apple or Google am I ever

gonna get that probably not but what I

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