Samsung Galaxy M41's monster 6,800 mAh battery will smash the iPhone SE

Samsung Galaxy M41's monster half dozen,800 mAh battery volition smash the iPhone SE

The Samsung Galaxy M31. (Image credit: Samsung)

As good as the iPhone SE 2020 is, its weakest point is battery life. If that's a large business concern for yous then don't worry, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy M41 budget smartphone will have almost 7,000 mAh of capacity, and will likely cost around $100 less.

Twitter user the_tech_guy posted evidence of the 6,800 mAh cell, taken from regulatory listings kept past the Korea Institute for Chemical Convergence Testing (via Max Weinbach). The Milky way M41 will exist the successor to the $300 Samsung Milky way M31, which launched earlier this year and has a half dozen,000 mAh battery.

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Although the capacity is impressive, the maximum charging speed of 15W is not. Certain, it'southward better than the default charging speed of the 5W charging cake the iPhone SE comes with. Just nosotros'd prefer something like the 25W block that comes with the Milky way S20 series that would be able to fill the M41's tank nice and fast.

Samsung galaxy M41 comes with a large 6800mAh battery (Rated capacity). picture show.twitter.com/xLmocXop1OJuly iv, 2020

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The $400 iPhone SE's tiny bombardment, a miniscule one,821 mAh according to unofficial teardowns, does punch above its weight in battery life thanks to Apple'due south highly optimized iOS software. Withal, given that smartphones are averaging around iv,000 mAh of capacity, it's impossible for Apple's latest budget iPhone to keep up with an equivalently priced Android smartphone.

The Galaxy M41's cell still won't be the largest battery we've seen on a phone though. That honor goes to the xviii,000 mAh monster that was the Energizer Phone Power Max P18K Pop. This phone'south no longer available to purchase, and information technology didn't review very well when it was. So 6,800 mAh will have to do for now.

Since the Galaxy M41 is a Samsung phone, information technology proffers the question of why Samsung wouldn't put this battery on one of its flagships. The upcoming Milky way Note twenty serial would certainly benefit from having a battery this large, every bit would side by side year'southward Galaxy S30. Even the biggest rumored bombardment for the Galaxy Note 20 series, in the Note 20 Ultra, doesn't exceed 5,000 mAh.

Withal, smartphones don't have space for literally every desirable feature. Samsung has probably decided that it's worth going for smaller battery capacity to then accept space for the best features information technology tin bring to impact its upcoming flagship telephone; the Galaxy Note series handset are always an expression of the very all-time phone tech Samsung has.

But the M41 is a budget handset and will probably be aimed more than at people looking for power and cost efficiency rather than the latest and greatest smartphone tech. So a bigger battery makes sense in such a handset.

The Galaxy Note 20 is expected to appear next month, likely at a 5th of Baronial consequence. The Galaxy M41 nigh likely won't appear in the mankind until side by side year, but there are enough of other excellent cheap phones to buy if you want a sub-$400 handset right now.

Richard is a Tom'southward Guide staff author based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, sound and whatever else people need advice on. Following on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he's also written for WIRED U.Chiliad., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at work, he's likely thinking about how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.