Huawei Nova 3i Battery Test: If Only It Charged Faster!

Huawei recently launched the Nova 3i in the land, which packs in the visitor'due south latest in-house chipset, the Kirin 710 SoC. The device comes with pretty adept features, and priced at Rs. 20,990, offers some corking cameras and a premium build quality. The device is, withal, backed past a battery capacity of merely 3,340mAh. The company claims that the provided capacity coupled with EMUI should ensure great bombardment backup, but I'd similar to test things out myself. Well then, hither'southward my battery examination of the Huawei Nova 3i:

Battery Life

While the Nova iii packs in a 3,340mAh battery, information technology lasts quite a bit, thank you to Huawei's software optimizations which play a major role in increasing the battery life of the device, asthe device barely loses any accuse when information technology's non in use. In fact, it is, in most ways, better than AOSP's Doze mode.

Battery Life with Light Usage

While testing the battery life of the Huawei Nova 3 with light usage, I started off the day with a full 100 percent charge and throughout the twenty-four hours I just used the phone some light web browsing, casual gaming, calls, social media and a bit of photography. What's astonishing is that the Nova 3i managed to last me about 1.five days on a unmarried charge, and then after, I managed to button the device through till the night on EMUI's bombardment saving style.

Battery Life With Heavy Usage

Withal, on heavy usage, things were a bit unlike, but nothing unusual. My heavy usage mostly ways capturing tons of photographs and posting them regularly on Instagram, playing a lot of PUBG Mobile while chatting with my friends over on Discord, watching YouTube videos, and using a lot of WhatsApp and Telegram. The device simply about managed to final until the end of the day, while offering a screen on time of five hours and 43 minutes.

Charging Test

Packing in a 3,340mAh bombardment, the Huawei Nova 3i has merely the right amount of bombardment to brand your device last an unabridged 24-hour interval. Nonetheless, the device comes with a microUSB charging port with no quick charging of any sort. And honestly, that is a major permit down, especially when you consider the fact that the Honor Play, which is in the same toll range, comes with a smashing fast charger. What makes things worse is the 9V/2A charging brick that is pretty much standard, and should already give you an idea that this test is headed south.

In my normal testing, the Huawei Nova 3i took almost ane hour and 40 minutes to charge from 10 percent to lx percent, which is pretty darn slow. What'southward worse is that it took me well over 2 hours to completely juice upwardly this thing, which is just not good. Besides, just like the Nova 3, the Nova 3i charges rather uniformly, unlike other fast charging solutions which charge up the device pretty quickly upwardly to l percent and then slow downwards a bit before reaching 100 percent. Equally such, you'd have to leave the device to charge for at least 40-45 minutes before taking it out for the twenty-four hours. That too, if you know your twenty-four hours is going to be less smartphone dependent.

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Huawei Nova 3i: Good Battery Life, Bad Charging Speed

All things considered, the Huawei Nova 3i offers a pretty good battery life, thank you to the decent capacity along with EMUI's modifications. However, the sluggish charging speed of the device is a major let downward and actually spoils the overall experience. In the end, if y'all can beget to leave your phone to charge, the Nova 3i tin pretty much offering everything you'd need from a daily commuter.

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