Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance?

MojoKid writes: A couple of weeks ago, Futuremark began handing out copies of PCMark for Android to members of the press, in an effort to get its leaderboards filled while the finishing touches were being put on the app. That might give you pause in that the results, generated today, are not going to be entirely accurate when the final version comes out, but that's not the case. Futuremark has encouraged publication of results generated with the benchmark. What makes PCMark for Android useful benchmark is that it not only tests for performance, but also for battery-life and performance combined. As such, you can easily figure out which devices sacrifice battery-life for performance and which ones have a good blend of both. The HTC One M8 really stands out, thanks to its nearly balanced performance/battery-life ratio. A result like that might make you think that neither value could be that great, but that's not the case at all. In fact, the battery-life rating on that phone places far beyond some of the other models, only falling short to the OnePlus One. And speaking of that phone, it becomes obvious with PCMark why it's so hyped-up of late; it not only delivers solid performance, it boasts great battery-life as well.

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Battery life depends on a bunch of things...
- What you leave running in the background
- Whether bluetooth / wifi / cell / GPS are on/off
- Whether you have a good cellular signal (more bars = less power needed to talk with tower)
- Quality of the WiFi signal / network congestion
- Screen brightness

With the HTC One (m8), I have to charge it every 2-4 days. Depends on how much I'm using it, what the weather is like outside, how many hours I spent on the phone that day, and where it spent most of the day.

I spent about 2.5 hours on conference/phone calls today and the phone has been off the charger for about 18hrs. Battery is at 66%. GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth are all turned on. That's not fabulous but not horrible either.