Mobile phone manufacturers fight fast charging technology Huawei has made significant progress

For mobile power manufacturers, the bad news is that people want mobile phones to last longer. To make matters worse, the endless stream of new technologies is driving longer battery life or significantly shorter charging times.

Every two years, the chip will double in speed and power consumption will be doubled. In comparison, battery technology has only improved by 10% per year. Most merchants will do their utmost to develop larger screens and more feature phones instead of improving the battery life of the phone. As a result, most smartphones can only be used for one day, even for non-heavy users.

But the good news is that fast charging technology is making significant progress. At the battery conference held in Japan on Friday, Huawei introduced a fast-charging battery that can be fully charged with 50% in just 5 minutes. For a lower capacity battery, it can fill 2/3 of the battery in just 2 minutes. Huawei did not disclose when this fast-charging battery will be available. Huawei said in a statement: "Soon, we can fully charge the battery with a cup of coffee."

Qualcomm has developed a chip that supports fast charging. Starting next year, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chips and other new chips will be able to increase charging efficiency by 30% with Quick Charge 3.0 technology, which is four times faster than conventional charging.

Today's fastest-charging phones, such as the Droid Turbo 2, LG G4, BlackBerry Priv, and Samsung Galaxy Note 4, all use Qualcomm technology, and high-capacity batteries can be filled with 60% of power in 30 minutes, while conventional chargers are within 30 minutes. Can only charge 12%. The Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge also have fast charging capabilities.

Another battery-related improvement in smartphones includes letting you know which applications consume the fastest power and offers options to slow down power consumption, such as the latest iOS adds a low-power mode. At the same time, Android 6.0 Marshmallow also applies a number of techniques to save power, including putting the phone into "sleep mode" when not in use, allowing specific applications that are not used frequently to enter standby mode.