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The battery is one of the most important specifications that the user should look at before purchasing a ‘smartphone’. During the last years, we have been seeing how the terminals each time last more and more hours until reaching, in many cases, about a day and a half of use. Now, companies want to go one step further and drastically reduce the loading time, as was seen in the middle of last week during the fair. Mobile World Congress.
First it was the Asian firm reallywhich will reach the charge of 150 watts with its future ‘smartphone’ GT Neo 3, 25 times faster than the fastest mobile to date. It is expected to be able to charge the battery to 50% in just 5 minutes.
Then Oppo announced the charge of 240 watts, which means that we could go from 0% to 100% battery in less than 10 minutes, that is, in less than we drink a coffee the phone could be completely full.
Everything happens to improve the load
With the capacity of lithium-ion batteries stagnant for years, the only thing that can improve the autonomy of a phone is its consumption, or its charge. Consumption improves year after year, but it does so slightly, since the processors are also more powerful and the screens of the mobile phones are larger, the only thing that is achieved is to maintain what you had. For that reason, the manufacturers’ focus is on charging.
If the phone can be charged in a few minutes, the autonomy or the capacity could become irrelevant, and it could be the purpose of charging the phone at night in order to have the phone at 100% and last the whole day. But fast charging is not something as simple as raising the voltage of the charger. We all remember the problem of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and how their batteries exploded. Fast charging has to be accompanied by security, for example, Oppo’s SuperVOOC technology has 5 processors and 13 sensors installed throughout the charging process, from the plug to the mobile phone battery, to ensure that the charge is done correctly .
In addition, it is also essential that the terminal does not heat up during charging thanks to Oppo’s graphene vapor chamber. Not everything ends there, thanks to the battery protection technology that it has developed, called ‘Battery Health Engine’, or BHE, they have managed to double the charging cycles of the battery, a new chip designed by the company manages that there is deterioration and that the chemical process is correct during the load.
It is very common for the autonomy of our mobile phones to begin to decline after two or three years of use, and it is because the batteries begin to deteriorate from that point on, that is, when they are below 80% of their capacity. original charge, which occurs at 800 charge cycles, with BHE, the charge cycles become 1,600, or what is the same, the phone maintains its autonomy for 5 years.
The first phone with BHE is the Oppo Find X 5, its 80-watt charge maintains the durability of your battery for 5 years. The implications of this technology are enormous, the phone that uses it will not only help the environment by polluting less since its useful life will be longer, but it will also lose less value over time.