Nobody enjoys waiting an hour or more for their smartphone to recharge, but it doesn't look like we'll have to for much longer. Xiaomi has reduced charging times to just a handful of minutes.
You may remember back in 2019, Xiaomi used a 100W Super Charge Turbo system to fully recharge a 4,000mAh battery in 17 minutes. Even two years later, that's still very impressive. However, as Android Police reports, Xiaomi continued to develop its fast-charging tech and now has a 200W wired charger that leaves the 100W version for dust. It also has a new name: "Hyper Charge."
As the video above demonstrates, the 200W charger can get a 4,000mAh phone battery to 10% in 44 seconds, 50% in three minutes, and 100% in just eight minutes. Who wouldn't want such a feature on their next phone?
Of course, there is one potential down side to this extremely fast charging, and that's battery health. We currently don't know how pushing so much energy into a battery so quickly impacts the lifetime of a battery. Hopefully it has no impact at all, or at worst it only shaves a few weeks off the lifetimes we experience in today's phones.
There's currently no information on when this Hyper Charge tech will make it into a commercial handset, or whether it uses a proprietary Xiaomi port. However, with the latest USB Type-C spec increasing power delivery to 240W, there's no reason this couldn't become a standard feature of handsets in the near future.