Qualcomm has introduced Quick Charge on almost every supported mobile devices. They are providing high speed charging solutions for smartphones from the past few years. Qualcomm Quick Charge has been evolved a lot in the past some years. The latest iteration aka Quick Charge 4 can charge 50% device in just 15 minutes. Now, Qualcomm is set to embrace the wireless chargers with Quick Charge technology.
At an event here at MWC 2019, Qualcomm made some announcements related to 5G, AR, VR, IoT, and Mobile. Among them, Qualcomm mentioned about the wireless Quick Charge technology, which will allow compliant wireless chargers and devices to get benefits of Quick Charge wireless technology. The new technology will eventually debut the era of fast and seamless wireless chargers. Even, the manufacturers are inevitably going to benefit from it as most of the smartphones come with Qualcomm Quick Charge support.
Already, Quick Charge 4 supports 18W charge and Qualcomm 4+ 27 W. Now, the upcoming version is promising 32W rapid fast charging support. It will benefit almost every manufacturer who is looking for ways to improve wireless charging across their devices. Qualcomm’s announcement of upcoming fast wireless charging would have provided a sign of relief to manufacturers.
Already devices like, Google Pixel 3, Huawei Mate 20, Razer Phone 2 supports fast wireless charging of 10W-15W. Even though, Xiaomi’s new Mi 9 has just launched with the support for 20W non-Qi wireless charging.
Speaking at the event, Qualcomm said that that they want the manufacturers to support Quick Charge following Qi compatibility. The chipset maker is expanding compliance program to ensure that Quick Charge supported products meet Qualcomm’s standards along with Qi Wireless charging also.
As of now, Qualcomm didn’t provide detail about the charging speeds or any technical numbers to guess the level of wireless Quick charge technology. Although, featuring both the Qualcomm Quick Charge and Qi wireless charging standards, Xaomi has announced wireless charging pad couple of days ago. These pads will be sold with the Xiaomi Mi 9.
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