The challenge: Harmonizing battery life with new functionalities while maintaining an amazing user experience

Battery experience is critical for smartphone users, and it is the main reason leading consumers to replace their devices (source YouGov – DXOMARK survey). Balancing battery life while delivering innovative features as well as an excellent multimedia experience can be challenging for device makers. These days battery capacity is considered as a main indicator of the battery experience, making it difficult for manufacturers to emphasize their distinct features. To help manufacturers with these challenges, DXOMARK can assist the engineering and product marketing teams in every step of the development process.

DXOMARK battery testing protocol

Our comprehensive protocol devotes 150 hours of testing to each device, evaluating 100 parameters based on 70 core battery measurements, which provides you with in-depth data and a well-rounded assessment of performance. The automated and fully repeatable protocol evaluates the battery life, charging, and efficiency of a smartphone. The tests are conducted using the latest state-of-the-art equipment in a laboratory environment, which guarantees a fair and repeatable evaluation for all devices. For example, part of the protocol takes place in a Faraday cage with a set of touch robots that simulate human interactions with a smartphone, providing an environment of controlled network conditions.

“Battery performance depends on a combination of factors including the choice of hardware components and power management software optimization. Using our battery score centered on the end-user, we aim to guide consumers in their purchasing decisions.”
– Olivier Simon, Battery team leader

Engineering services

DXOMARK offers a wide range of services, assisting engineering as well as product marketing teams in every phase of the product development process, from product definition all the way to the launch of the device on the market. In addition to evaluating the battery performance on new devices, DXOMARK experts can qualify the quality of the battery in refurbished products, a growing market where battery performance is identified as a pain point.

 

Associated services

Testing tools

In addition to specific engineering services, DXOMARK also provides a set of testing tools that can be installed at your facilities to optimize and boost your product development process. The DXOMARK Battery lab allows you to evaluate your product in an automated, controlled, and monitored environment, while ensuring repeatability.

Measure battery experience in an automated environment

The fully automated setup provided by DXOMARK is designed to be entirely customizable, allowing you to adapt the testing process to meet your precise requirements. With the integration of DXOMARK’s advanced robots and network simulators, you can create a tailored testing plan that addresses your unique user needs or specific challenging use cases.

Test your devices exactly as your users would experience them with our solution, designed to be fully representative of real-world user interactions. By simulating genuine usage conditions, our testing approach ensures that the data gathered accurately reflects how consumers will interact with your product in everyday situations. 

Perform the same perceptual analyses as DXOMARK with the tools in the Battery Lab