Does Fast Charging Actually Ruin Your Battery?

Fast charging is the future…

Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Geek Culture

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Does Fast Charging Actually Ruin Your Battery?
Photo by Will Porada on Unsplash

Almost all of the most recent flagship smartphones today offer some kind of rapid battery charging.

In the process of marketing their newest products, manufacturers frequently make use of phrases and statistics such as “80% in 30 minutes” or alternatively “100% in just an hour.”

The rapid adoption of fast charging technology is the result of the increasing use of smartphones, with many people needing to recharge their phones twice per day.

We all know that the size of smartphone screens continues to increase year after year, and their batteries must also increase in size in order to meet the increased demand for power.

It’s because fast charging can provide more power in a shorter amount of time. If we didn’t have fast charging, we’d have to wait hours for our phones to reach total capacity.

At its most fundamental, fast charging is nothing more than an increase in the total number of watts (W) that are supplied to the battery of a mobile device.

Standard USB ports deliver 2.5 watts to the device that is connected to them, but faster chargers can increase this amount.

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Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Geek Culture

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