News & Reviews:   charging technology

Fully charge your phone within one second sounds impossible, but it's achievable. During an interview with Tech Radar, Edward Tian, the head of the Charging Technology Lab at OPPO, mentions that it is coming our way in the future.

Have you ever thought that it would be so cool to charge your smartphone when you put it in your shirt pocket? Well, it could be a reality one day as a group of scientists from Fudan University, Shanghai in China just published a new study on a type of fibre that can be used as a charging technology. 

Not long after launching the Huawei Mate 40 series last year, Huawei claimed that it had 120W and 200W fast-charging tech. At the time, those power ratings were allegedly not suitable for mobile devices. But now the company has one that would be suitable.

As fast-charging becomes increasingly better, the need for standards become more important. There are too many companies developing fast chargers, so it's important for there to be a unified standard. Fortunately, the big companies are well ahead of us.

Fast-charging has been around for a few years and improved to a great degree. While wireless charging is more recent and still needs a lot of improvement, researchers are already working on the next step. To be exact, scientists have managed to develop a new device that's capable of charging devices from a distance.