New mobile phones will be fully charged in just nine minutes, boffins have revealed.
Fears of your mobile running out of juice will be a thing of the past thanks to new technology which can rapidly boost handsets.
The breakthrough was revealed by the Chinese phone maker Oppo at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and will be in devices by the summer.
The technology allows phones to be smaller and thinner.
Oppo showed its SuperVooc charging tech charging a phone from 1% to 100% in nine minutes.
Apple and Samsung are said to be developing their own fast-charging batteries, believing this is an important selling point for phones.
Neil Monger, Oppo’s UK product manager, said: “We have been working on Vooc technology since 2014. It was relatively fast back then and it has carried on evolving.
“It’s not just about speed – it is also about doing it in a way that is safe for our customers.
“For example, if you just try to put more power into a battery without safeguards, it may cause longer-term battery damage that causes it to degrade quicker over time.
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“We test and test to avoid that. These new versions of SuperVooc have 13 temperature sensors installed in the phone to monitor the charging status in real-time.
“It reduces the chances of overheating and prevents other abnormalities. If someone is keeping a phone for two or three years, they need to know the battery will last.
"A good battery will retain 80% of its capacity after 800 charges. Ours do that after 1,600.”
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Stuart Miles, the founder of tech website Pocket-Lint, said: “The new technology from Oppo will allow smaller, slimmer and lighter handsets too.
“It Super-speedy charging like this means smaller batteries – after all, if you can fill them up in a matter of minutes then you don’t need a giant one.
“Of course, many people want a big screen and so phones have to be big to accommodate that – but they don’t need to be so thick and heavy.”
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