Oppo demonstrates 240W smartphone charging, charging a phone in 9 minutes

How fast do you need to charge your smartphone? Oppo sets new smartphone charging speed records, both for commercial smartphones and in the lab.

Taking center stage today is the incredibly fast 240W “SUPERVOOC”charging prototype, which can charge a 4,500mAh smartphone battery up to 100 percent in nine minutes and reach 50 percent in just 3.5 minutes. That’s 1 percent about every four or five seconds of charging time. The prototype presented by Oppo at Mobile World Congress shows the battery percentage to two decimal places, so you can watch those numbers really skyrocket.

However, 240W is only for a prototype phone, and it is not known how such charging speeds will affect your battery after a few charge cycles. For the speed Oppo is willing to commercialize while maintaining battery longevity, it is also announcing a 150W charging scheme to be used in phones this year, including Oppo sister company BBK OnePlus phone. (OnePlus 10 Pro, released earlier this year in China, uses up to 80W.)

Oppo’s 150W SUPERVOOC fast charging technology is “capable of charging a 4,500mAh battery from 1% to 50% in 5 minutes and to 100% in 15 minutes,”the company writes. Oppo is juggling the numbers a bit, starting at 1 percent, but those numbers still shine.

The company says it can do this without destroying your battery thanks to the “Battery Health Engine (BHE)”. Oppo says it has created a “dedicated battery management chip”to monitor temperature and other health factors, as well as a new battery formula. Oppo states: “Battery Health Engine is able to maintain the battery at 80% of its original capacity after 1600 charge cycles, effectively doubling battery life in line with current industry standards (keep the battery at 80% of its original capacity after 1600 charge cycles). up to 800 charge cycles). You will need to charge your phone every day for four years to reach 1600 cycles.

As we’ve said in almost every OnePlus review, these fast-charging schemes are the best features to hit smartphones in recent times. When you can plug your phone in for a few minutes to get a ton of charge, it changes user behavior and makes overnight charging a thing of the past. Oppo, OnePlus, and Xiaomi have been doing this for about four years now, and all Google and Samsung have done in response is rig their chargers to make them seem faster than they really are. The rest of the industry should catch up, but Oppo also notes that it has already received more than 1,300 patents for its charging technologies.

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