Bigger battery tipped as key selling point for compact Samsung Galaxy S23

How big of a battery life improvement should you expect?

Unfortunately, it’s virtually impossible to answer that question with even a moderate degree of confidence at the moment and things are unlikely to change on this front in the near future. That’s because a phone’s real-life battery endurance is heavily influenced by a number of different factors, including its processor’s energy efficiency, its manufacturer’s software optimizations, and even the way you use said device.Of course, the main ingredient of this intricate and sometimes inexplicable recipe remains a phone’s battery capacity, and perfectly in line with our guesstimate from just last week, it looks like the Galaxy S23 will add 200mAh to the 6.1-inch S22’s 3,700mAh cell.

That’s at least according to a new Chinese social media post by Digital Chat Station, who’s been known to make very accurate assumptions and predictions of this nature in the past about other unreleased and highly anticipated Android handsets.

The S23’s battery should feature a “rated value” of 3,785mAh and a “typical” (aka advertised) 3,900mAh capacity, representing a bump of around 5 percent over the aforementioned typical rating of the S22’s ticker.

That may sound… underwhelming, but with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor reportedly focused primarily on keeping power consumption to a minimum (while still packing quite an impressive punch), it seems safe to assume that the total battery life upgrade will amount to significantly more than 5 percent in regular day-to-day use.