Tech News: This is big: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge may have incredible battery life

This is big: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge may have incredible battery life

Samsung's "next big thing" is the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, and now we have a good idea of just how big the battery life may be on at least one of these new Android phones.

That's a significant 1,000mAh bump over last year's 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, which makes sense given the rumored 5.5-inch S7 Edge's size increase. Could this Samsung phone go longer than 24 hours?

Space may still be tight inside the Edge variant, as it's said to have a Snapdragon 820 or Exynos 8 Octa 8890 processor, plus 4GB of RAM and choices of 32GB or 64GB of storage.

Just how big is Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge battery?

A 3,600mAh battery in the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge would beat almost every other phone out there, including the larger 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and its 3,000mAh battery.

The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium comes close with a 3,430mAh battery, the Google Nexus 6P has a 3,450mAh battery and Samsung's own Galaxy S6 Active dialed it up to a 3,500mAh battery.

Even the Samsung Galaxy S7, the forthcoming flagship without the curves, is rumored to have a much smaller battery of 2,700mAh. That's still a step up from the 2,500mAh in the Galaxy S6.

Only the Moto X Play with its 3,630 mAh battery and, in the US, the Verizon-exclusive Motorola Droid Turbo 2 with its 3,760 battery can claim to have more juice.

Of course, a bigger battery doesn't always translate into longer battery life. We found the LG G4's 3,000mAh to be superbar when tested, something that should be fixed with the LG G5.

See it all unfold: MWC 2016 news