Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo battery life test

"The battery size and overall specs remain the same, so we’ll have to see how much the bump in processing power impact battery life. Let’s dive right in!
The Galaxy Grand Neo and Galaxy Grand are by and large identical devices, both sporting 5-inch WVGA screens and 8GB of internal memory, 1GB of RAM, and 2,100 mAh batteries. Both also come in dual-SIM variant, although our particular model is of the single-SIM variety.
Our first test revolves around 3G talk time, where we hooked our Neo to and HSPA-enabled phone to see how long it would last before the battery gave out. At over 13 hours it was able to outperform the original Galaxy Grand by 45 minutes, although that device was powering two SIM cards simultaneously."

Talk time

• Nokia Lumia 1520 28:34
• Moto X 14:06
• HTC One 13:38
• HTC One X+ 13:31
• Nokia Lumia 520 13:33
• Sony Xperia C 13:29
• Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo 13:20
• Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 13:10
• Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos 12:45
• LG Optimus GJ 12:39
• Samsung Galaxy S4 GPE 12:37
• Huawei Ascend P1 12:30
• Pantech Burst 4:46

The our browser stress test tells a similar tale, with the Grand Neo scoring near 8 hours of surf time and the Grand trailing it by 3/4 of an hour. The slightly higher Jelly Bean build on the Neo (4.2 vs. 4.1.2 on the Grand) likely explains some of the variance.

Web browsing

• Sony Xperia C 12:45
• Huawei Ascend Mate 8:17
• Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 8:17
• HTC One mini 8:12
• Nokia Lumia 610 8:01
• HTC One X+ 7:56
• Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo 7:43
• Sony Xperia E dual 7:42
• Samsung Galaxy S III mini 7:38
• Nokia Lumia 720 7:37
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 7:35
• BlackBerry Z30 7:34
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus 3:01

Finally, we tested the a looped video playback endurance on the Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo. With a score of just under 7 hours it leaves something to be desired, especially considering the Galaxy Grand managed over 8 hours. It’s likely that the quad-core Broadcom chip is not as optimized towards video as its dual-core counterpart, which would explain the discrepancy compared to the first two tests.

Video playback

• LG G Flex 19:57
• HTC One mini 7:23
• Nokia Lumia 610 7:23
• LG Optimus G 7:16
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 7:03
• Asus Nexus 7 (2013) 7:03
• Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo 6:55
• Huawei Ascend P6 6:55
• Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 6:54
• HTC Desire 600 dual sim 6:49
• Nokia Lumia 720 6:43
• Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue 6:40
• Nokia Lumia 710 3:27

Ever since the release of TouchWiz on Jelly Bean, Samsung has been better than most manufacturers at optimizing battery performance during standby. Its standby numbers really helped when it came to our overall endurance rating, where the Neo was able to score a very respectable 59 hours. This means that the Galaxy Grand Neo can last almost two and a half days if you do an hour of calling, an hour of web browsing and an hour of video watching each day.

Be sure to check out our detailed review for more on the Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo.