{"id":30042,"date":"2016-09-10T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/oppo-can-fully-charge-a-smartphone-in-15-minutes"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:07","slug":"oppo-can-fully-charge-a-smartphone-in-15-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/oppo-can-fully-charge-a-smartphone-in-15-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Oppo can fully charge a smartphone in 15 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most people might not drool over Oppo phones<\/a>, but they\u2019re going to get a feature that might get those salivary glands pumping. This morning at Mobile World Congress, the company showed off its new SuperVOOC quick-charging technology. If real-world results are as promising as they say, Oppo fans will be able to fully charge some of their devices in 15 minutes. No, seriously.<\/p>\n

Oppo says that\u2019s about how much time it\u2019ll take to charge a dead 2,500mAh battery to 100 percent, and that the technology will work over traditional micro-USB and USB Type-C cables. That\u2019s even faster than what we\u2019ve seen out of Qualcomm\u2019s most recent Quick Charge 3.0 demos \u2014 the fast-charging technology baked into chipsets like the Snapdragon 820<\/a> can get a smartphone from bone-dry to 80 percent in around 35 minutes. Of course, it\u2019s sort of no surprise that Oppo can squeeze better performance out of their system \u2014 it\u2019s more or less proprietary Oppo, so the company has full control over the battery, silicon and software involved. That\u2019s the sort of end-to-end control that helped Huawei figure out how to supercharge smartphones<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

In some cases, you\u2019ll be able to get a full charge in less than 15 minutes. An Oppo hype man plugged a metal-encased reference device into a charger and continued his spiel in Mandarin. Less than ten minutes later \u2014 after he discussed an algorithm that varies current to maximize charging efficiency while keeping temperatures low \u2014 the phone was back up to 100 percent. Our natural skeptics can\u2019t help suspect this was just a staged demo for the show, so here\u2019s hoping we soon get to test a SuperVOOC phone for ourselves.<\/p>\n

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