HTC Desire V goes through our battery test, see how it fared inside

HTC Dual-SIM Android smartphones aren’t something we come by every day, so when the HTC Desire Vcame by our office, we were eager to test how it’ll fare in our battery test. Especially since its main selling point is the ability to facilitate two SIM cards.

The HTC Desire V gets its juice from a standard for its kind 1650mAh Li-Ion battery, so you shouldn’t expect it to run circles around the heavyweight champions like the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Motorola RAZR MAXX HD.

Let’s start off with talk time, as its going to be the HTC Desire V’s main duty. It managed to clock the respectable 8 hours and 20 minutes utilizing one of its two SIM card slots. We’re only using one SIM slot so it can be compared easily to the results by other phones. Plus, when you have a call on one of the cards, the other will shut off for the duration of the call, so as regards to call time battery life one SIM does the job, too.The phone does, however, supports active dual SIM standby without a hiccup.

Talk time

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• Motorola RAZR MAXX (ICS)21:18
• Nokia Lumia 8008:25
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus8:23
• HTC Desire V8:20
• Samsung Captivate Glide8:20
• Sony Xperia T8:15
• Pantech Burst4:46

Moving on to web browsing, the JavaScript-heavy pages had their tow on the uninspiring, and rather outdated 1GHz Cortex A5 chip inside the Desire V, making it run out of juice in just 5 hours and 44 minutes.

Web browsing

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• Apple iPhone 59:56
• Pantech Burst5:51
• Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G5:45
• HTC Desire V5:44
• HTC Evo 4G LTE5:41
• Samsung Wave 3 S86005:34
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus3:01

Video playback is a little bit better and at 6 hours and 26 minutes is just a minute better than one of its main rivals, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos.

Video playback

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• Motorola RAZR MAXX (ICS)16:35
• Samsung Galaxy Note LTE7:30
• Meizu MX 4-core6:33
• HTC Desire V6:26
• HTC One X (AT&T)6:26
• Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos6:25
• Nokia Lumia 7103:27

The endurance rating of the HTC Desire V came out as 45 hours. Assuming your usage is an hour of calling on a 3G network, browsing the web for another hour then watching an hour of video each day, you won’t need to charge the device for a hair under two days.

For a dual-SIM smartphone not running the most power-efficient CPU out there, that’s fairly okay.