Cytrus Tech about the battery life of the Pinephone Pro:
comparison table
| device | accessory | mode | battery life (hrs) | test | source | |
| 1 | Pinephone | battery keyboard | idle | more than 28 (*3) | 1 single test (*1) | MRIS |
| 2 | Pinephone Pro | none | all modes | 1 | normal use | Cytrus Tech |
| 3 | Pinphone Pro | battery keyboard | all modes | several hours | normal use | Cytrus Tech |
| 4 | Pinphone Pro | battery keyboard | standby mode (*2) | 12 – 24 | normal use | Cytrus Tech |
(*1)
(*2) When you push the power button the Pinephone it goes into standby mode.
(*3) In our test, we have set the settings for the Pinephone timeout to the lowest level. The screen was completely dark after about a minute and came back when the power button was pressed.
- First tests we did showed that Raspberry Pi’s the screens draws a lot of battery power:
To increase the battery life of Pi’s we suggest to choose a a power efficient Android phone as a Pi screen and remotely control the PI via VNC viewer applications which is connected over ethernet or usb cable.