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In recent months, we see how different phone brands have started a new race for numbers. First it was the processor cores, then the diagonal of the screen, and later the Mpx of the cameras. Now it’s the turn of Load Speed, a race that brings us good news in general, but there are some that aren’t positive.
With two major exceptions such as Samsung and Apple, it seems that the rest of the major global manufacturers they set out to compete to see who can charge their star terminal faster.
OnePlus started the race with the OnePlus 9 Pro and its 65 W. Not even a year had passed and those speeds were starting to be seen in the mid-range. Xiaomi has raised the bar to 120W with the Xiaomi 11T Pro. Brands like OPPO wanted to be present without wanting to be the most daring, with proposals like the 80 W of the OPPO Find X5 Pro. Of course, in its laboratories there are 240W charging technologies
The last to join was realme with the realme GT Neo 3, which is capable of charging at 150W and, today, is the terminal that recharges its battery the fastest.
The problem of space
What these marks don’t matter is that the faster the charging speed, the less battery capacity we will have. We’re not talking about the dreaded effect of battery degradation, something that seems to have been brought under control, at least within the average cell phone lifespan of around 3 or 4 years.
realme GT Neo 3 in white
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We mean that the fast charging stations have smaller batteries than the somewhat slower charging ones. The realme GT Neo 3 itself is a good example. In China, the variant that has 150W charging uses a 4,500mAh battery, but the one with 80W uses a 5,000W battery.
The reason is that the higher the loading speed, the more space we need for voltage controllers and other elements that make this cargo safe. Of course, we can’t do without it.
Vivo joins the fashion, paying a higher price
The latest to want to break the record is Vivo. It was leaked that he was working on a mobile with cable charging from 200W
This new top of the range from Vivo would be a mobile with a battery of 4000mAh. We haven’t seen a top-end with a battery of this size in a long time.
It seems that as the charging speed increases, the battery shrinks, and this is a problem because the actual autonomy of the mobile decreases. It is true that with a small push of the charger we will be almost 100% again, but often we do not have the possibility to stop in the middle of the day.
We assume that brands take this into account and always assume that the mobile will last at least a day, but it depends on the use cases.
Let’s hope that we finally reach a balance where autonomy is very good and fast charging too, without paying too high a price.
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