Lumia 625 Battery Life and Phone Performance

When we a buy a phone we always would want to know how the overall performance and the battery life goes hand in hand. It’s the 6th day of review and I am happy to share that the Lumia 625 is doing well. The apps run smoothly and battery lasts for almost 12 hours if not more. I did compare it with Lumia 820 and 920 and there is a difference when you launch apps and load games but when it comes with Lumia 720 or any similar device, the performance should be equal.

Phone Performance :

Lumia 625 runs a 1.2 GHz processor but with only 512 MB RAM and with the biggest screen in the Lumia series. The screen is made of IPS LCD with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2 making sure the screen is smooth and strong at the same time.

That said, After using the phone heavily for last 6 days, I found the performance pretty satisfactory. The biggest test was done with gaming and it absolutely did not lag anywhere during the game play or even when switching between the apps while the game was in background. I have used apps like Whats App, Twitter, Facebook, Email and high-end games which didn’t give me hiccups except when the battery went low.

Most of the apps will run on the phone and the ones which aren’t running now will be optimized. The same happened with Asphalt 7 Heat which was initially launched for 1GB devices but it now runs on low-end phones smoothly.

Battery Performance:

Lumia 625 not only houses a quality Build and Gorilla Glass 2 for long-term durability, it also empowered with 2000 mAh battery pack which unfortunately cannot be taken off for those users who love to pull out battery but good thing is that it lasts for a complete day on 3G and 20 hrs when used in mix with 3G and WiFi. Here are my daily usage stats which can help you judge.

Pre-Set Conditions:

Every day I get calls of about 30 minutes.
Brightness On Auto Mode.
Battery Saving mode turns on when 10% of battery is left.

Day 1: (on 3G All day except for game downloads)

Two Game Downloads over WiFi that took around 30 minutes on a 4 mbps connection.
A total of 30 minutes of gameplay in two breaks. The games in case are Asphalt 7 Heat and Drift Mania 2

Twitter via Mehdoh all day. Approximately 3 hours. I usually pull down 200 tweets in one go and then email important tweets or mark them as favorite.
Listened to music for 30 minutes on Speaker.
Some cool radio stations for 30 minutes.

The battery went down from 100% to 90% in 12 hours.

Day 2 : ( 3G All Day)

Twitter Feed for all day.
WhatsApp for about all day.
Used camera and took 30 snapshot.
Feed reading using NGReader app for Windows Phone. It also includes bookmarking, opening links in IE and download images.

6 App updates on 3G which should be around 20 mb of data.
Listened to music for about an hour using earphones. Used Nokia Music and Gaana App ( Live Streaming)

The battery went down from 100% to 90% in 10 hours.

Day 3: (3G + WiFi in almost equal proportion)

Twitter Feed for all day.
Facebook using the inbuilt social feature of Windows Phone.
Feed reading.
Download a 720 MB movie (full HD) over WiFi using Your Movies App
Watched a full length HD movie for 2 hours using Nokia Monster headphones.

The battery went down from 100% to 90% in 12 hours.

Day 4: ( on 3G)

Twitter Feed for all day.
Whats App partially.
Feed Reading.
Game play for 30 minutes.

The battery went down from 50% to 0% in 6 hours.

Video Overview

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Related Reading on Lumia 625

Day 1: Exclusive Apps & Readability
Day 2: Lumia 625 Gaming Performance
Day 3 & 4 : Lumia 625 as an Entertainment Device
Day 5 & 6 : Lumia 625 Battery Live and Phone performance

Day 7 : Lumia 625 Build & Hardware
Day 8: Lumia 625 as a Camera Phone
Day 9: Lumia 625 vs Lumia 720 and Lumia 820

Summary:

Overall I am pretty much satisfied with Lumia 625 performance. If you are looking for a bigger screen device with performance, this could be your choice. Make sure you ask your question about it. Note: We are giving out Nokia Coloud POP to one of our readers which ask a good question on Lumia 625.