[Nexus 6  General] cb474:
I guess just disagree. It makes no sense to just set the phone to 50% brightness. That bases the test on a completely random parameter determined by whatever happens to be the maximum brightness a phone can achieve. Essentially the test penalizes phones that happen to be able to get brighter than other phones.

For example, if a phone's maximum brightness was artificially limited (just to keep the point simple) to 200 nits and another phone did not have this limit and could go up to 400 nits, then in GSMArena's test one phone would be tested at 100 nits and the other at 200 nits (twice the brightness) necessarily penalizing the second phone even though it could perfectly well be set at 100 nits and get the same battery saving advantages, if the user is willing to put up with the sceen being dimmed to that level.

This kind of procedure just makes GSMArena's test arbitrary and meaningless.

Setting the screen to a standardized brightness by an objective, external measure, as AnandTech does, is far better. It may not be perfect. But it is not arbitrary and meaningless like GSMArena's test.

That aside, I don't really understand what your point is anyway. My point was that the biggest power sucking element on a phone (even more than the CPU) is the screen. And the larger and higher resolution the screen gets, the more battery life will suffer. This is an unavoidable trade off.

And it's one of the main reasons Apple has been able to get industry leading battery life on phones with pretty small batteries. The iPhone 6 battery is only 1810 mAh. The iPhone 6+ battery is only 2915 mAh (small for a huge phablet). And yet the iPhone 6 is getting better battery life than phones like with batteries that are 50% to almost 100% larger. Similarly the iPhone 6+ beats all other phones out there, despite many of them having much larger batteries. That's remarkable. A major way Apple accomplishes this is by falling on the smaller side with screens and especially by keeping the resolution much lower than what has become standard in the Android world. The iPhone 6 isn't even 1080p.

So all I was saying is that it's pretty unlikely that the Nexus 6 with a very large and super high resolution QHD screen will come close to the iPhone for battery life.

I presonally don't like Apple products or iPhones. But since this thread is about comparing the Nexus 6 to the iPhone 6 Plus and people were raising the issue of battery life, I thought it might be useful for Android users who don't realize this that we do pay a price for large, very high resolution screens.

Nothing you've said contradicts this. And it can't be contradicted because it's accurate. This is a real issue worth being aware of.

That is interesting to know and does not surprise me. I have always felt that much of the "news" that GSMArena reports reads like it was dictated directly to them by someone's PR team. I even made a comment about this once on one of their articles and they deleted it. They basically do not moderate comments at all, let people call each other names, and say every rude, horrible, possible thing. But politely point out a problem with their own reporting and they delete it. No honest journalist would do that.