Qualcomm’s superfast charging technology, called Quick Charge 4, will debuts smartphones in 3rd quarter of this year.
If you are always on the move and need quick charge for your smartphone
Qualcomm says Quick Charge 4 is one of the fastest smartphone battery technologies. It can charge a smartphone up to 50 percent in less than 15 minutes, or give enough juice for five hours of talk time in five minutes, the chip maker claims.
The new charging technology is about 20 percent faster than its predecessor, Quick Charge 3, which is in many smartphones from Sony, LG, HTC and Motorola.
Qualcomm’s claims are based on fast-charging a 2,750 milliamp-hour battery. Many of the new phones have batteries with capacity exceeding 3,000 mAh.
Fast charging is an incremental step toward solving the battery-life problem, an ongoing issue for smartphone users.
Quick Charge 4 works with USB Type-C, which can deliver more power over cables in order to charge phones faster. Software tweaks also help to make the technology faster than conventional chargers.
Quick Charge 4 was announced in November, alongside the introduction of the Snapdragon 835 chipset. But some new smartphones, like Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium, which has the Snapdragon 835, surprisingly were introduced with Quick Charge 3.
Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphones, which are also equipped with Snapdragon 835, have both wired and wireless fast charging technologies that are proprietary.
Qualcomm declined to name any phones that will come with Quick Charge 4 though it is more likely that Sony, LG and HTC will lead the pack with launch of new devices. Qualcomm claims more than 600 million devices have shipped with Quick Charge 2 and 3.
If you are always on the move and need quick charge for your smartphone
Qualcomm says Quick Charge 4 is one of the fastest smartphone battery technologies. It can charge a smartphone up to 50 percent in less than 15 minutes, or give enough juice for five hours of talk time in five minutes, the chip maker claims.
The new charging technology is about 20 percent faster than its predecessor, Quick Charge 3, which is in many smartphones from Sony, LG, HTC and Motorola.
Qualcomm’s claims are based on fast-charging a 2,750 milliamp-hour battery. Many of the new phones have batteries with capacity exceeding 3,000 mAh.
Fast charging is an incremental step toward solving the battery-life problem, an ongoing issue for smartphone users.
Quick Charge 4 works with USB Type-C, which can deliver more power over cables in order to charge phones faster. Software tweaks also help to make the technology faster than conventional chargers.
Quick Charge 4 was announced in November, alongside the introduction of the Snapdragon 835 chipset. But some new smartphones, like Sony’s Xperia XZ Premium, which has the Snapdragon 835, surprisingly were introduced with Quick Charge 3.
Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphones, which are also equipped with Snapdragon 835, have both wired and wireless fast charging technologies that are proprietary.
Qualcomm declined to name any phones that will come with Quick Charge 4 though it is more likely that Sony, LG and HTC will lead the pack with launch of new devices. Qualcomm claims more than 600 million devices have shipped with Quick Charge 2 and 3.
