Now Phone Charging 40 Percent Faster with Qualcomm Quick Charge Technology
Is your new phone charging much faster than your old one? It’s not your imagination, it’s by design. Your new phone or tablet could have new Qualcomm technology that speeds up charging so you can pick up your mobile device and go.
Quick Charge is an integrated circuit board built into the USB connector on a smartphone, tablet or interface, and it cuts the charging time down by 40 percent, resulting in a maximum recharge time of three hours instead of four. In case we needed reminding, Qualcomm says the less time your phone is on charge, the more time you’ll have it ready to use.
Amazingly, Qualcomm has already fitted Quick Charge to at least 70 devices which use Snapdragon processors (along with several others), and the list includes the Nexus 4, the Nokia Lumia 920, HTC’s 8X and Droid DNA, the LG Optimus G, the Motorola Droid Razr M, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Sony Xperia T. You can check out the complete list here.
Qualcomm claims its next series of processors, the Snapdragon 600 and 800, are considerably more efficient than their predecessors, so even when working hard they’ll take less energy from the device’s battery. We’re still waiting for the first smartphones using the new Snapdragon chips to be revealed, but it’ll be interesting to see whether Quick Charge is also incorporated into the hardware, and how much difference the combination of the two makes to battery performance.
Source: Qualcomm Via: Digital Trends