While smartphones keep getting better, one aspect than can sometimes seem forgotten about is battery life, with many handsets prioritising slimmer builds over big batteries.
But there are some phones that have great battery life, and we’ve come up with a list of five of the very best.
The good news is, you don’t even have to buy a flagship to get a long-lasting handset – some budget phones have some of the biggest batteries, so you’ll find handsets at a range of prices here.
The OnePlus 6T packs a sizeable 3,700mAh battery and while that’s dwarfed by some of the batteries elsewhere in this list, it’s still a fair bit larger than most smartphone batteries (which tend to average around 3,000-3,300mAh).
Of course, a big battery doesn’t always mean lots of life, but in this case it does, with the OnePlus 6T comfortably lasting a day of fairly heavy use and potentially stretching well into a second day with lighter use. The OnePlus 6T can also be charged up very quickly, though there’s no wireless charging.
Beyond good battery life, this is just an all-round great handset, packing flagship specs at a much more affordable price than you’d expect. It has an in-screen fingerprint scanner, a high-end Snapdragon 845 chipset, up to 8GB of RAM, a 6.41-inch 1080 x 2340 AMOLED screen and a dual-lens rear camera, with both 16MP and 20MP lenses.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is a flagship in every sense of the word. In fact, it’s one of the very best phones of 2018, as it doesn’t skimp in any area, including the battery, which is a mammoth 4,000mAh.
It also supports both fast charging and fast wireless charging, and while you’re unlikely to get two full days from it unless you’re a very light user, a day and a half of life is not unrealistic.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 also has a curved 6.4-inch 1440 x 2960 Super AMOLED screen, a top-end Exynos 9810 chipset, a dual-lens 12MP rear camera, 6GB or 8GB of RAM, water resistance, and it even comes with a stylus, so you can make the most of its massive screen.
The Moto G6 Play is a much more affordable phone, yet like the Galaxy Note 9 it has a 4,000mAh battery. You even get fast charging, and thanks to the smaller, lower resolution 5.7-inch 720 x 1440 screen it’s if anything slightly longer lasting than the Note 9, so you can play for longer.
You’ll still be hard pushed to get two full days of life, but you should only have to plug it in twice every three days.
The rest of the specs aren’t so remarkable, but the Moto G6 Play is still a strong phone for the money, with a Snapdragon 430 chipset, 2GB or 3GB of RAM, a 13MP rear camera and a near stock version of Android.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is arguably the best Android phone of 2018 and it’s very close to having the best battery life too, thanks to a huge 4,200mAh battery.
It’s got some clever tricks up its sleeve as well, because as well as fast charging and wireless charging, the Mate 20 Pro also supports reverse wireless charging, which means you can use the phone as a charging pad to juice up other devices. You probably won’t want to do this much, but if any handset has battery to spare for other devices, it’s this.
Indeed, when you’re not using it as a charging pad this is that rare handset where it’s realistically possible to get two days of life, and even with very heavy use you should get a good day and a half.
Battery aside, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro has plenty of other selling points, including an in-screen fingerprint scanner, a top-end Kirin 980 chipset, 6GB or 8GB of RAM, a 6.39-inch 1440 x 3120 AMOLED screen, a triple-lens rear camera, Android 9 Pie and a premium, water-resistant build.
Read our Huawei Mate 20 Pro review
In terms of phones that are widely available in the UK, the Moto E5 Plus has the biggest battery at an enormous 5,000mAh. That dwarfs even the Mate 20 Pro’s juice pack. Yet this is no flagship, in fact, it’s the cheapest phone in this list.
The battery ensures that the Moto E5 Plus can last for a full two days between charges, and when you do need to charge you won’t need to wait around long, as it also supports fast charging.
Aside from being a battery champ, the Moto E5 Plus is perhaps the worst phone in this list, but that battery alone makes it a great budget choice.
Other specs include a 12MP rear camera, 2GB of RAM, a 6-inch 720 x 1440 screen, a Snapdragon 425 chipset and a fingerprint scanner.
So there you have it, five of the longest lasting phones around. If you simply want the best battery life possible then the Moto E5 Plus is the one to go for. That and the Moto G6 Play are also great budget options.
For a more expensive but still great value phone with flagship specs, the OnePlus 6T is the clear choice, though note that its battery life isn’t quite as impressive as the rest of the phones on this list.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Huawei Mate 20 Pro meanwhile are the best all-round phones if money is no object, with the Mate 20 Pro slightly topping Samsung’s offering thanks to a bigger battery and more features. They both come very close to the battery life of the Moto E5 Plus, but don’t quite match it.
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