Qualcomm’s fast charging platform has become an industry standard have been used in a wide range of phones, tablets and more. But now for Quick Charge 5, Qualcomm is giving its loading platform a massive boost in speed.
With support for charging speeds of over 100 watts, Quick Charge 5 is approximately four times faster than Quick Charge 4.0+ (which peaked at 27 watts). Qualcomm claims Quick Charge 5 can charge a device with a 4,500 mAh battery from 0 to 50% in just five minutes.
But what could be even more important than its charging speeds is that Quick Charge 5 is a superset of all Qualcomm previous versions of Quick Charge while also offering full support for USB Power Delivery Specs. That means Quick Charge 5 is upside down compatible with all devices using an old fast charge standard while being compatible with newer USB-PD devices including an increasing number of tablets and even laptops.
This contrasts with something like Oppo’s new Flash Charge technology, because although Flash Charge is technically slightly faster with support for up to 125 watts of power, Flash Charge is proprietary technology that doesn’t see much use on non-Oppo devices.
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Quick Charge 5 is also 70% more energy efficiency that Quick Charge 4, which should drive less energy wasted and cooler charging temperatures, with Qualcomm claiming that Quick Charge 5 works up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than QC4. Tor help extend life of your device’s battery, QC 5 includes Qualcomm’s new battery saving technology, that seeks to maximize energy efficiency and reduce the thermal impacts of the load.
Qualcomm has even created something called Smart Adapter Capability Identification, which requires QC5 devices to communicate with the power block that is Connected to verify things like voltage ranges, current behavior, and more, along with verifications for 12 different measurements of voltage, current, and temperature. That should help prevent things from getting messy. toor toasted in the battery of your phone.
While there is no set date for when Quick Charge 5 will start appearing on real retail devices, Xiaomi has already committed to including QC5 in a range of upcoming products, and QC 5 is expected to be more widely available on devices that will start in sometime in the third quarter of 2020.
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