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The HTC 10 and LG G5 combine Quick Charge 3.0 charging<\/a> and the USB-C connector<\/a>, allowing them to be charged rapidly\u00a0using a reversible plug. That sounds better than supporting just one of the standards — like the USB-C Nexus 6P or QC 3.0 Galaxy S7 — but a Google engineer doesn’t see it that way.<\/p>\n Googler Benson Leung wrote\u00a0<\/span>back in November<\/a> that any USB-C charger that also uses Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 standard is breaking the USB-C specification. Leung made his name for testing early USB-C cables and chargers<\/a> for compliance to the USB spec, even sacrificing his own laptop to a badly designed cable, so the statement has some weight behind it.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the recent release of the LG G5 and HTC 10, two\u00a0mainstream phones that combine USB-C and Quick Charge 3.0 as Leung describes, Qualcomm felt the need to clear the air with their own statement regarding the combo, which it unsurprisingly describes as safe:<\/span><\/p>\n Qualcomm Quick Charge is designed to be connector-independent. It can be implemented in a device that supports a variety of connectors, including USB Type-A, USB micro, USB Type-C, and others. When an OEM chooses to implement Quick Charge into their device, they can configure the voltage to fit within the specifications of the USB Type-C standard. We have received no reports of user experience or device malfunction issues with or without USB Type-C connectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unless we see reports of injuries or damage as a result of Quick Charge 3.0 being used over a USB-C connection, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any further discussion of this issue. While Qualcomm is being called upon to switch to Power Delivery, a quick charging standard that is part of the USB specification, it seems unlikely that they’ll abandon one of their platform’s traditional strengths any time soon.<\/p>\n What do you think — are you bothered by the prospect of USB-C and Quick Charge 3.0 falling outside of the USB 3.1 specification, or are you happy as long as it works as described? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n Do the HTC 10 and LG G5 flaunt the rules by combining Quick Charge 3.0 and USB-C?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":56009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[8561,8315,167,8608,175,8269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56008"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56019,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56008\/revisions\/56019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"