The P8 Lite’s performance is best described as middling. Qualcomm’s octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB of RAM ensures the phone handles light tasks with ease, but open anything more computationally intensive than a Google Doc and the P8 Lite perceptibly struggles. With a handful of apps running in the background, switching between them feels sluggish.
The P8 Lite’s 2, 200mAh is a tad smaller than the cell found in some of the competition’s hardware, but its low-resolution screen and single-band Wi-Fi chip helps keeps power draw to a minimum. In our tests, the P8 Lite, used sparingly, easily lasted a full work day — around 12 hours. But heavier usage drops battery precipitously — streaming a two-hour movie drained the P8 Lite from fully charged to 48-percent.
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