Everything you need to know about the latest fast charging standard: how fast it is, what features are included, when it will be released and what you’ll need.
What is Qualcomm Quick Charge 4?
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Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 announced: faster charging, more efficient and USB-PD compatible
Qualcomm announced its newest chipset in an event in New York today. It’ll be called the Snapdragon 835, and it’ll be based on Samsung’s new 10nm process. That should make it more powerful and more power efficient. The 835 also supports Quick Charge 4.0, the latest generation of Qualcomm’s popular charging standard and the first to be fully compatible with the USB Power Delivery standard as Google ‘strongly recommended’ last week.
New Android rules demand an end to proprietary quick charging standards
Right now, fast charging for Android phones is kind of a mess, with a handful of confusingly similar standards each championed by a portion of smartphone and accessory makers. The introduction of USB-C could have made things simpler, but instead it’s just added to the confusion. Now, Google are trying to set things straight with new rules for Android.
How to charge the Xperia XZ & X Compact faster
The Sony Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact come with ‘fast’ chargers out of the box, but what does that actually mean? What chargers should you look for if you want maximum speed charging? Let’s answer those questions now.
Qualcomm announce Snapdragon 821, their new best SoC
Chip maker Qualcomm announced their latest high-end chip today: the Snapdragon 821. This chip supplants the 820 at the top of the totem pole, boasting 10% better performance than its predecessor while retaining the same features and standards (e.g. Quick Charge 3.0).