Nokia C21 Plus Battery Review: Over 8 Hours of Zombie Tsunami Gameplay with 5,050mAh Battery!

After much anticipation, the Nokia C21 Plus is finally available for purchase in the Vietnamese market. This budget-friendly smartphone offers a lot for its price, including decent performance, a distinct Nokia design, and long-lasting usage with its 5,050mAh battery. So, how long does the Nokia C21 Plus battery last? Let's review it to find out!

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Performance Review of Nokia C21 Plus: Unisoc SC9863A Handles Gaming Quite Well

Hands-on with Nokia C21 Plus: Priced at 2.99 million, Good Configuration, 3-Day Battery Life

Nokia C21 Plus Packs Adequate Specifications with Unisoc SC9863A Chipset

Before diving into a deeper review, let's summarize the specifications of the Nokia C21 Plus for your reference:

As of now, Nokia stands out as one of the manufacturers with consistent product design, whether the device belongs to the budget or mid-range segment. This helps in cost-saving during production, ensuring optimal performance for most products. The Nokia C21 Plus follows suit, featuring the iconic Nokia design in recent years, equipped with adequate specifications like the Unisoc SC9863A chipset, with a notable focus on battery life.

In addition to satisfactory performance, the Nokia C21 Plus is equipped with a 5,050mAh battery, providing long-lasting usage for users. So, with such a battery capacity, how long can the Nokia C21 Plus last? Let's delve into the Nokia C21 Plus battery review to find out!

Nokia C21 Plus features a large 5,050mAh battery for impressive usage of over 8 hours

In this section, I'll conduct a battery test (based on the standards of Mytour) to assess how long the battery equipped in the Nokia C21 Plus can last with various tasks. This test will be conducted under specific conditions as follows:

• Experience 4 rotating tasks including: Playing Liên Quân (set up as shown below), watching YouTube, browsing Facebook, and using the Chrome browser.
• Each task will be used for 1 hour.

• Screen brightness at 100%.
• Plugged in wired earphones with volume at 100%.
• Enabled Wi-Fi and social media notifications.
• Battery saving mode, adaptive display, GPS, and Bluetooth turned off.
• Discharged from 100% to 0%.

Below are the results of the battery test conducted on the Nokia C21 Plus:

Through the conducted test, we observed that the Nokia C21 Plus can last up to 6 hours and 30 minutes with varied tasks. Personally, this result falls slightly below expectations for a device equipped with a 5,050mAh battery. This might suggest that the Nokia C21 Plus isn't optimized well enough to deliver prolonged usage. As seen in the results table, the energy consumption of each application exceeds 10%, notably with the game Liên Quân Mobile consuming the most, ranging from 14% to 17%.

Part of the reason is that the Unisoc SC9863A chip isn't optimized for gaming, causing the Nokia C21 Plus to heat up quickly during Liên Quân Mobile gameplay. Consequently, residual heat affects other tasks afterward. Therefore, I hope Nokia will release updates to optimize performance better in the near future. As for the charging speed of the Nokia C21 Plus, let's find out below:

I conducted this test from the moment the Nokia C21 Plus powered off until it reached full charge. As seen in the results table, the charging speed of the Nokia C21 Plus is relatively fast, taking about 2 hours to fully charge from 0% to 100%. I believe 2 hours is quite reasonable for a device equipped with a 10W charger in the price range of 2 - 4 million VND, so we can't expect much more.

Nokia C21 Plus battery lasts for over 8 hours of Zombie Tsunami gameplay

Next, let's address a topic that I believe many are interested in: How long can the Nokia C21 Plus handle gaming? To answer this question, I conducted a battery test on the Nokia C21 Plus with 4 popular games: Liên Quân Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Free Fire, and Zombie Tsunami. Let's delve into the details below!

The specific conditions for conducting the test were as follows:

• Play a single game until the device runs out of battery (from 100% to 0%).
• Screen brightness at 100%.
• Plug in wired earphones with volume set to 100%.
• Enable Wi-Fi and receive notifications from social media.
• Do not enable battery saving mode, adaptive display, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Below are the results obtained after conducting the test:

• Liên Quân Mobile: 5 hours 49 minutes.
• PUBG Mobile: 5 hours 55 minutes.
• Free Fire: 6 hours 24 minutes.
• Zombie Tsunami: 8 hours 42 minutes.

Despite not being optimized for performance, the Nokia C21 Plus delivers gaming time above my expectations. As seen in the results table, the Nokia C21 Plus can typically last over 5 hours for each game, especially with Free Fire and Zombie Tsunami, both offering outstanding usage time compared to other games. The impressive gaming time of Zombie Tsunami may stem from its simple gameplay and low graphic demands, allowing the device to conserve power effectively.

In my assessment, this is a quite satisfactory result for a smartphone priced at less than 4 million VND, and you can definitely extend your gaming experience even further! Because, the testing conditions of Mytour are relatively harsh, causing the device to consume battery power quite quickly. For everyone, I believe you can enjoy longer gaming sessions!

Nokia C21 Plus battery provides impressive usage time for basic tasks

In this test, I'll use the Nokia C21 Plus for basic tasks such as video calling via Messenger, browsing TikTok, watching YouTube, browsing the web with Chrome browser, and scrolling through Facebook under the following conditions:

• Use only one app until the device runs out of battery (from 100% to 0%)
• Screen brightness at 100%.
• Plug in wired earphones with volume set to 100%.
• Enable Wi-Fi and receive notifications from social media.
• Do not enable battery saving mode, adaptive display, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Below are the results obtained after conducting the test as shown in the image below:

• Messenger: 8 hours 3 minutes.
• YouTube: 9 hours 21 minutes.
• Facebook: 9 hours 1 minute.
• Google Chrome: 8 hours 15 minutes.
• TikTok: 7 hours 44 minutes

From the above test, the battery life of the Nokia C21 Plus is truly impressive. Among the tested apps, both YouTube and Facebook achieved the best usage time with over 9 hours. With such usage time, I believe the device can easily meet the daily usage needs of most users. Additionally, for TikTok, the Nokia C21 Plus only achieved a continuous usage time of over 7 hours 44 minutes. I think this app may still not be fully optimized for the device.

How much does the Nokia C21 Plus cost? Is it worth buying?

Through the battery tests conducted on the Nokia C21 Plus, it's evident that the device can easily provide a full day's usage for basic tasks. Currently, the Nokia C21 Plus prices at Mytour are as follows:

• 3 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage version priced at 2.99 million VND.
• 3 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage version priced at 3.19 million VND.

I believe this is a very reasonable figure if you're in need of a device with sufficient specifications and long-lasting battery (prices may vary depending on timing and promotions).

So what do you think about the usage time of the Nokia C21 Plus? Leave your comments below for me and everyone to know! Thank you for your interest and following my article.

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