Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is the race for the fastest charging smartphone over?”.
Fast charging is one of the most convenient ever evolving features of the modern smartphone. Ever since 2016, with the 18 watt, google pixel and 20 watt oneplus 3 chargers, phone makers like bbk, samsung, xiaomi and huawei have been including faster and faster chargers in the box with their latest smartphones, there are 40 50 6520 watt chargers with some of these smartphones And a lot of them can charge a device from zero to 100 in around 30 minutes, which is just absurd. This charging speed is awesome, but is this progression going to be halted by something that’s happening right now? Let’S talk about that. One of the biggest marketing points of recent times is charging speed.
Manufacturers are constantly talking about how fast and powerful their charges are and will especially hype them up when talking about their latest smartphone releases, but they might not be able to hype that up, especially in smartphone marketing anymore. It’S no secret that apple didn’t include the wall. Wart in the box of its iphone 12 series, neither did xiaomi with its me 11 and it’s looking like samsung will be joining them by emitting its charging brick with the galaxy s21 series. It is worth mentioning that, whilst you don’t get the brick, you still get the charging cable for charging and data transfer, and it is also doubly worth mentioning that if you have a me 11 and you request the charger from xiaomi they’ll, send you one free of Charge, but how long is this going to last, if these companies aren’t including their chargers in the box, how long until they stop pushing for the fastest charges about smartphone buyers, don’t want to pay extra for something they’d usually get in the box anyway, especially if those Same companies aren’t going to drop the smartphone’s price to make up for it. This means that fewer people are going to be buying and using the smartphone’s fastest charger, which makes you wonder why companies would develop it in the first place.
If there’s not a huge market for it, at least by developing faster charges, you can increase the price of the smartphone as a whole and then make the money that way, of course, there’s likely to be edge cases going forward from niche devices. But it’s likely that this trend is going to spread industry wide. We saw it with the headphone port, a few companies ditched it, and it was only a couple of years after that, until most high-end smartphones got rid saved for sony and lg, google and oneplus teased. Other companies about not having the headphone jack only to then go on and remove the headphone jack from their own phones and in google’s case it was only the next generation and guess what xiaomi has already teased the rest of the industry itself in a tweet.
By saying that the mi 10t pro came with the charger in the box and the mi 11 doesn’t come with the charger in the box. It was that quick and this industry-wide transition is likely to come faster than you’d. Imagine i mean it’s already been a few years since apple and samsung included the fastest version of their chargers in the box with the smartphones anyway, and in my personal experience i don’t know anyone personally who’s owned those phones and then gone on to buy the faster Charger separately, they just use the one, that’s in the box or an older charger they have laying around, and that brings up the question again. What’S the point in creating the fastest charges, if people aren’t going to use them.
So what happens when these charges aren’t included? Well, with a cable you’re likely to connect your phone to a console or a computer or a charger that you may already have laying around. That means that your phone isn’t charging at the top speed. So, what’s the point in your smartphone being able to charge at 50 watts if most usb ports are only outputting around 5 to 7.5 watts, this puts the whole fast charging spec into question. Google has used 18 watt fast charging since the pixel 1..
Does this mean that we’ll never see a pixel, 6, 7 or 8 with anything over 18 watts? If there’s no charger in the box, why would there be that incentive to sell a fast charger anyway? The same goes for the iphone the galaxy, the mate series, because there’s no reasonable way of selling a smartphone marketing a smartphone that can charge really quickly if you’re not going to give the individual that charger. It’S a bit like selling a car on the premise that it’s going to be really quick, because it’s got a turbo charger only you have to go and buy the turbocharger separately after the fact it just yeah, it’s just not right, which leaves the fast charging race. As companies over the past few years have really pushed to get the fastest charging, is it really over now? Well, if there’s no point in marketing phones with such fast charges, what’s the point in having fast charging in the first place, i wouldn’t be surprised if we all see it stagnate and plateau over the next couple of years or even just drop off completely. But what do you think i’d especially like to hear from you guys about this, because i know a lot of you are very passionate about fast charging, whether you like it or you dislike it, and any feedback on this would be really appreciated in the comments, because This is a topic: that’s clearly going to be picked up by more and more people as more and more smartphone manufacturers exclude the fastest charging in the box, or at least charges in the box in the first place, and that’s where i want to leave this video Guys so please do give us your feedback in the comments, because this is something i’m definitely going to troll through the comments for and please do hit like and subscribe to, never miss a video like this one from us at android authority, i’ve been ryan, thomas and I’Ll catch you later, .