{"id":6320,"date":"2021-06-03T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:02:25","slug":"xiaomis-200-w-charger-charges-a-phone-in-8-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/xiaomis-200-w-charger-charges-a-phone-in-8-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi\u2019s 200 W Charger Charges A Phone In 8 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xiaomi demonstrated a 200 W Xiaomi HyperCharge in a Twitter video over the weekend, showing that the new technology can fully charge an exhausted phone in just eight minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phone recharges to 10% in 44 seconds, while it quickly ramps up to 200 W. In three minutes, the phone&#8217;s battery is already 50% full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power increases to 150 W when the phone reaches 75% charge in just five and a half minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, the system slows down to 40 W on its way to a full charge after eight minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such behaviour is designed to protect the battery&#8217;s longevity and is one reason why there is no evidence that fast charging degrades the battery faster than normal charging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xiaomi is not the only company pushing for higher charging speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qualcomm announced 100 W charging technology last year and Oppo currently boasts 125 W while Xiaomi&#8217;s best commercial phones reach 120 W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not yet known when the 200-watt charge will be available in stores.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/xiaomis-200-w-phone-charger-goes-from-0-100-in-8-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Xiaomi 200 W charger recharges a phone in under 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}