How to Fast-Charge Your Smartphone

Here are immoderate of the main charging standards you are apt to encounter:

Power Delivery (PD)

USB PD is the astir communal USB-C charging modular for smartphones, not to notation tablets and laptops. PD is arsenic adjacent arsenic we presently person to a cosmopolitan standard. Apple, Google, and Samsung usage it successful each their latest phones, and astir smartphones are compatible with PD chargers. Confusingly, astir phones that enactment proprietary charging standards besides enactment PD.

While determination are antithetic versions of PD, determination are lone a mates of things you request to beryllium alert of:

• Programmable Power Supply (PPS) successful PD 3.0 allows granular configurable voltage levels, enabling good power implicit powerfulness drawn to support vigor (energy loss) to a minimum and complaint arsenic accelerated arsenic possible. Phones that enactment PPS request a PPS charger to complaint astatine maximum speed.
• Extended Power Range (EPR) successful PD 3.1 enables charging rates of up to 240 watts, up from the erstwhile maximum of 100 watts.

Qualcomm Quick Charge (QC)

Qualcomm’s Quick Charge (QC) was developed to complaint batteries successful devices faster than modular USB, allowed by expanding the output voltage supplied by the USB charger. Since galore phones usage Qualcomm chipsets, enactment for QC is widespread. There person been respective versions of QC, but the past 3 versions (QC 4, 4+, and 5) each enactment PD and tin spell up to 100 watts. QC is besides cross-compatible with galore different proprietary standards.

MediaTek Pump Express

MediaTek is different large chipmaker with its ain fast-charging exertion called Pump Express, overmuch similar Qualcomm’s QC. MediaTek doesn’t look to beforehand it anymore, but Pump Express mentation 4.0 is compliant with the USB PD 3.0 standard.

Oppo VOOC and SuperVOOC

Developed by Oppo, Voltage Open Loop Multi-Step Constant-Current Charging (VOOC) was archetypal introduced successful 2014, with successor SuperVOOC pursuing 2 years later. Both are proprietary standards, but Oppo has licensed them for usage by different brands, specified arsenic OnePlus (its Warp Charge relied connected VOOC technology) and Realme. While astir fast-charging technologies proviso a higher voltage, SuperVOOC uses higher amperage and employs 2 tricks: a dual-cell artillery successful the telephone and offloaded charging circuitry successful the charger.

While VOOC lone offered 20 watts to commencement with, the modular has consistently been faster than astir of the competition, and SuperVOOC 2.0 brought 65-watt charging successful 2020. It jumped to 100 watts soon aft and tin spell higher (theoretically up to 240 watts), though precise fewer devices spell beyond 100 watts today. To get the apical speeds, you request a SuperVOOC 100-watt charger, but it’s worthy noting that they treble arsenic PD chargers to present up to 65 watts.