In recent years, the world’s giant tech companies have continued to launch fast phone chargers. Smartphone makers such as Oppo, Huawei and Apple are in a race to provide users with the fastest charging times. While this competition is still in the testing phase, it brings speeds of up to 240W and charges the phone completely in 9 minutes. So, do fast charging speeds on smartphones shorten battery life? If you cool the phone down enough, can you charge it with the high power you want without getting hot? According to Mcdodo Turkey General Manager Mehmet Uçurum, although we don’t know the exact results yet, the solutions have been developed using all the blessings of technology; for now it looks like you can use your battery for a long time without damaging it.

As smartphones become the most important tool of our lives, the high performance and charging times of these devices occupy our agenda. Given that one of the main topics tech companies are working on is the loading times of computers and phones, it’s not surprising that consumers are so sensitive to this.

All companies are in a race to develop the best technologies, especially to charge smartphones quickly and last longer. It is our most natural right to charge our phone in the fastest way, even today when we are racing against the clock. That’s why the world’s largest phone manufacturers continue to offer adapters that can charge faster every day. As world giants such as Apple, Huawei and Oppo race fast charging up to 240W, the biggest question in users’ minds is, “Would such a fast charge not overheat my phone and damage the battery?”

We went from 5W to 240W in a few years

provide information on the subject Mehmet Uçurum, General Manager of Mcdodo TurkeyHe stated that, especially in recent months, a new brand has started to fast charge another brand and the fast charging market is growing, he said: “The 5W adapters that came out of the iPhone boxes a few years ago , were enough for all of us. It was fully charged in 2.5 hours. Then the 18W charging that Pixel rolled out was super fast charging for all of us. Then the iPhone went to 20W charging. Then suddenly we got 30, 45, 65 80W phone chargers released in a few years by both Apple and other brands.Today, the Xiaomi 12 Pro comes with a 120W charging adapter and charges the phone to 100 percent in 17 minutes.A few weeks ago, Oppo demonstrated the charging of 240 W and reached 100 percent charge in just 9 minutes in this trial period. “We are seeing speeds that we could not have imagined a few years ago.”

Users think their phones are getting damaged

Right now, the first question that comes to mind for all smartphone users is, “How can such a fast, high charge charge such small batteries without damaging them?” Uçurum said: “In fact, users cannot believe that charging at such high speeds is not possible without damaging such small phones, and they are questioning this situation.

What comes to mind the most is that it can cause a serious heating problem on the phone. They don’t universally believe it will charge that fast without damaging the battery. But if these concerns are true, why are so many brands, the entire industry, investing millions of dollars every day to produce fast charging?”

“The charging battery is like a sponge”

Recalling that the battery hardware of smartphone batteries comes into play at this point, Uçurum explained the general charging process as follows: “Currently, the batteries of smartphones are lithium-ion or lithium polymer. The battery has a positive and a negative side. When the phone is being charged the current flows from the negative side of the battery to the positive side ions collect there when the charge is completed and connected to the charge the ions flow from the positive side to the negative and collect The charging battery is like a sponge, the closer to being fully charged they can no longer absorb the current at such a high rate and losses begin to occur, this loss of current causes the battery to heat up. Basically, the charging process is actually a curve, not a straight line.These current rates, which we see increasing every day, are not actually a constant charging rate, but the point where the charge peaks.”

Current view of digital cables

Adding that we can now monitor how much power enters your phone and how it changes according to the degree of saturation of the battery, with the power indicator digital charging cables produced by Mcdodo, Uçurum said: which is very natural. But in this whole cycle, it’s heating, not natural wear and tear, that damages the battery. However, the ions in the battery are very sensitive and resistant to heating.

Therefore, the goal with batteries is to keep heating to a minimum to prevent the battery from wearing out faster than normal. Since faster charging means faster heating, it would be a very natural conclusion to think that charging faster and faster from day to day also damages your phone.

Technologies developed against heating

“One of the most important things tech companies have been working on in recent years has been offering the fastest possible charge with the lowest possible battery temperature.

Uçurum said: “The heat protection technologies of fast-charging batteries, which are now being released one after another by major telephone companies, largely eliminates this problem,” Uçurum said. parallel charging In this method, you divide the battery into two different cells and divide the incoming power into two, and you sing like 2 different batteries. Thus, the battery receives the full current divided by 2. Therefore, you can do the high charge without heating up. With the increase in charging speeds, most smartphones produced in recent years come with a ‘cooler’ hardware that prevents heating up during charging. We’ve been seeing this for a few years now, especially on phones built for gaming.”

Aim for 80 percent battery health

But do all these methods work? Is the solution to this problem that simple? If you cool the phone down enough, can you charge it with the high power you want without getting hot? Uçurum answers these questions as follows: “Whatever you do, will you damage your phone’s battery? There is a standard for this in the telephone industry. 80 percent battery status after 800 charges. This corresponds to about 2 years. In other words, the goal in a healthy battery is 80 percent battery health after 2 years. Currently, in lab tests with fast charging, the battery health for some brands has been proven to be 80 percent after 800 or even 1600 fast charging. Although such high-speed charges have just entered our lives, scientific tests prove that they do not harm the battery.”

Uçurum states that the industry is getting better and better in fast charging, and that gallium nitrate chargers, one of these innovations, offer much faster charging speed with much smaller and lighter sizes, Uçurum said that Mcdodo’s many different products in this field meet the different needs of users. He says he continues to give.

Source: (BHA) – Beyaz News Agency