When Samsung this August finally unveiled the Galaxy Note 5, the latest 2015 addition to the Galaxy Note line, some longtime fans of the series reacted with disappointment to the fact that the Note 5's battery was actually smaller than the previous iteration.

Specifically, Samsung dropped the battery size 220 mAhs from 3,220 mAhs to a flat 3,000 mAhs. But it kept the same power-hungry, 5.7-inch quadHD (1440 x 2560p) resolution screen, and even upped the RAM from 3GB in the Galaxy Note 4 to 4GB in the 2015 phablet.

And so outraged Galaxy Note users immediately reacted with anger and betrayal. They were sure that Samsung was needlessly sacrificing battery life (not to mention the option for microSD expansion) -- simply so it could fit the juice pack in the new Note 5, while also doggedly following the trend of using "premium" build materials.

Well, according to a new PhoneArena report in which the Galaxy Note 4 was actually pitted against the Galaxy Note 5 in a series of endurance tests, it turns out Samsung actually did know what it was doing. The Internet's raging indignation, it appears, was premature.

The report claims that despite the nearly seven percent drop in capacity, the Galaxy Note 5 lasted almost a half-hour longer than the Galaxy Note 4 -- nine hours and 11 minutes under PhoneArena's "real-life usage" -replicating custom web script for the Note 5, compared with eight hours and 43 minutes on the Note 4.

On top of that, they reported the Galaxy Note 5's charge time bested the Note 4's by 14 minutes, taking 81 minutes total to go from zero to 100 percent, compared to the Note 4's 95 minute charge time.

Of course, take that one test with as big a grain of salt that you want. But more tests by more sources will likely solidify the Note 5's superior, if unintuitive (for some), stature on battery power over the Note 4.

For those paying attention to Samsung's advancements in the somewhat technical and unexciting realms of its power-sipping Exynos processors and low-impact memory, the fact that the Note 5 outlasted the Note 4 is not so surprising.