Earlier today (29th September 2022), the China Communications Standards Association and others jointly announced a new standard for Universal Fast Charging in the country. A number of brands have also hopped on board, so here are the details.

The China Communications Standards Association has just released the first batch of 11 fast charging certifications. With this announcement, a number of Chinese smartphone makers have passed these certifications. This includes known names like Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi as well. The new standard for universal fast charging was established to promote the development of the fast charging technology in terms of five major aspects:

• To continue the improvement of fast charging solution and expanding its support  for various applications.
• Promote the transformation of fast charging group standards into a singular universal standards that will be valid on an industry scale.
• This will also help track the progress of international fast charging standardization and even bring the Chinese group standards to the international standards level to bring China as the global standard for fast charging solutions.
• Help promote more firms to adopt a unified fast charging standard.
• And lastly, it will also help improve the third party certification and identification.

The new standard is called UFCS or the Universal Fast Charging Specification. This will soon be adopted by various smartphone manufacturers soon, with the aforementioned brands already being on board. One of the first new certifications introduced is for the 40W maximum power output for the first stage, with the second stage reaching the 65W charging mark. This is still not high as some of the fast charging options offered on some high end phones, but we can expect the standards to have these certifications soon.

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After seeing the revolutionary 5X camera technology from OPPO yesterday, today another Chinese brand Meizu has taken the center stage at MWC 2017 in Barcelona with its amazing Super mCharge fast charging technology. Meizu already has a fast charging technology in its kitty but this latest Meizu Super mCharge delivers fast charging at supersonic speed.

The Meizu Super mCharge uses a new charge pump technology with a conversion efficiency of up to 98% in order to solve the reduction in efficiency caused by charging heat lags. Safety is also taken care of as the new technology also reduces the charge when the phone heats up too much. The Super mCharge comes with a power rating of 55W (11V, 5A), utilizing both high voltage and high current.

The technology was tested with a 3000mAh battery and the result is stunning. In just 5 minutes the battery had reached 30% from zero and that figure doubled to 60% in 10 minutes. As the percentage of charge increased, the rate slightly reduces but is still ferocious. In 15 minutes, the battery charge had gotten to 85% and in 19 minutes and 12 seconds, the phone was 100% charged. Meizu claims the Super mCharge is 3 times faster than the ordinary fast charge. It is also said to be faster than the Quick Charge 3.0 and VOOC fast charge technology.

The 3,000mAh battery, though, isn’t just any battery but Meizu’s new high-performance battery which can even withstand up to 4 times the current delivered by the Super mCharge. The battery is said to be manufactured using a new lithium-based material which is durable. Meizu claims that even after 800 cycles of charging, the battery still has more than 80% of its capacity, thus can last up to two years of normal usage.

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Meizu did not disclose when we should expect to see the Super mCharge inside its smartphones but it should be expected with the next Meizu flagship smartphone.

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Recent surveys have shown that a good number of smartphone users spends a great deal of time with their smartphones, running into several hours. The biggest casualty of this trend is usually the phone’s battery which is designed to last just a few hours of heavy usage. That is where fast charging technology comes in, to give phones a quick charge resulting in several percentage in just few minutes. The Huawei Mate 9 is touted as having a Super Charge feature which delivers fast charging.

The Mate 9’s Super Charge was recently subjected to test by PCOnline to determine the potency and reliability of the Mate 9’s fast charge technology. The fast charger is configured to support 5V / 2A, 4.5V / 5A and 5V / 4.5A, three output specifications. The fast charge is said to be 50% faster than the Mate 8’s and can achieve up t 58% charge capacity in just 30 minutes.

From the test results, the Huawei Mate 9 was able to charge up to 21% in just 10 minutes. Whereas the Mate 8 was able to achieve 11% in 30 minutes, the Mate 9 reached 57%. In the same vein, the Mate 9 reached 90% in 60 minutes while the Mate 8 was still at 63%.

Another question that might prop up is how much heat would the device generate as a result of the fast charge.  That was also determined as the Mate 9 uses low voltage, high current fast charge solution in order to reduce the heat inside the circuit. The temperature of the device was tested at 10 minutes, 20 minutes and 40 minutes of charging and compared to that of the Mate 8 and the heat generated isn’t that bad.

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In addition, the fast charge technology comes with various safety apparatus both inside the device, in the charge as well as on the battery to ensure that it is safe and wouldn’t lead to cases of exploding device. This is tipped as the fastest charging technology in the market presently, faster than the VOOC fast charge technology and the Quick Charge technology.

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