Quick Charge 3.0: A New Era in Mobile Charging Technology

The world of mobile charging has just gotten a significant boost with the introduction of Quick Charge 3.0 technology. This innovative system allows phones and chargers to communicate with each other, enabling them to negotiate the exact voltage and current that the battery requires at any given stage of its charging cycle. This intelligent negotiation system means that the phone will only draw what it needs from the charger, reducing heat buildup and minimizing energy waste.

The benefits of Quick Charge 3.0 are numerous. For one, it allows for faster charging speeds without overheating or damaging the phone's battery. The technology also enables phones to communicate with chargers more effectively, ensuring that they don't draw more power than necessary. This results in a reduction of heat generated during charging, which can lead to longer battery life and less wear on the phone.

In my personal experience, I've seen firsthand how important it is to use the right charger for your phone. A friend of mine once found himself in this situation when he discovered that his phone wasn't charging properly. He had plugged it into a USB charger, but unfortunately, it was an old iPod charger that wasn't designed for his phone's needs. The charger was only rated at 0.1 amp, which wasn't enough to charge the phone. Luckily, my friend had another charger that looked identical but had a different output rating. This experience taught me the importance of checking the label on your charger to ensure it matches your phone's requirements.

One of the most significant advantages of Quick Charge 3.0 is its ability to provide fine control over the charging process. Phones can now request voltage and current increments as small as 200 milliamps, allowing for precise adjustments that reduce heat buildup and minimize energy waste. According to Qualcomm, this technology is 38% more efficient than Quick Charge 2.0.

To take full advantage of Quick Charge 3.0, you'll need a high-quality USB cable. Cheap cables won't be able to handle the increased power requirements, so it's essential to invest in a proper one. Fortunately, most phones come with a good USB cable that should suffice for now. However, if you plan on replacing or upgrading your phone, make sure to buy a quality cable.

It's worth noting that Quick Charge 3.0 chargers are already available in the market, although they're not widely supported by phones at this time. However, as manufacturers begin to adopt this technology, we can expect to see faster charging speeds and improved battery life. In fact, some experts predict that we may start seeing Quick Charge 3.0-enabled phones as early as 2016.

As the technology continues to evolve, it's essential to stay informed about the latest developments in mobile charging. With Quick Charge 3.0 on the horizon, we can expect a new era of fast and efficient charging that will revolutionize the way we think about mobile energy. I'm Gary Sims from Android Authority, and I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more in-depth analysis and reviews of the latest tech trends.

In conclusion, Quick Charge 3.0 is an exciting new technology that promises to revolutionize mobile charging. With its intelligent negotiation system and fine control over voltage and current, this technology has the potential to make charging faster, safer, and more efficient. As we move forward, it's essential to stay informed about the latest developments in this field and to invest in high-quality charging accessories. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in my next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody my name is Gary Sims from Andre Authority now recently Qualcomm announced its latest iteration of its quick charging technology Quick Charge 3.0 and today I want to take a look at what is quick charging and specifically what is quick charging 3.0 so if you're ready let's go now one of the things that probably annoys all of us is our battery life have you found yourself stuck somewhere away from a charger and your battery's down to 10% and you don't know whether you're going to have enough energy left in the battery till you get home and things like that well there are different ways that manufacturers are trying to solve this problem one of course is there's ongoing Battery Technology research and other ways we're trying the companies are trying to build better phones better CPUs better displays and another approach is to have a quick charge technology which allows the phone to be charged up very quickly therefore if we're about to dash out somewhere we can just plug the phone in and a few minutes later it's got enough charge to keep us going until we get home now we need to talk a little bit about charging technology before we go any further the modern Smartphone when it charges it charges in two phases the first phase from 0o to about 80% can be done with quite high levels of energy and the energy just pumped very quickly into the battery however there has to be a trickle charge at the end that last bit from 80% to 100% has to be done at a much lower level of energy that's just the way the batteries work now if you'll notice that when companies like Qualcomm and Samsung talk about Quick Charge what they all talk about is how quickly they can get to 80% we can charge it to 80% in 30 minutes or in 40 minutes or whatever the numbers they are quoting and that's because that first initial stage is very easy for them to pump in that energy however there isn't yet technology that exists for that latter 20% and sometimes that 20% can be actually as long as the initial 80 % or maybe even longer now on your computer you've got a USB port now USB ports used to be the standard way for charging up phones us to plug your phone into the USB port and it would charge up but of course USB has only 5 Vol and 0.5 amps now that was fine for phones of a few years ago with much smaller batteries much smaller displays however today we've got Big 5 in 6in phones that have massive 3,000 4,000 5,000 Mah batteries and they need a lot more energy to charge them up so a modern day phone will come with its own charger that's rated at 5 volts and probably something like 2 amps now that if you wer know bit about physics that gives you a total of 10 watts of energy 2 * 5 10 wats of energy that you can pump into your telephone now Quick Charge works with more wattage than that by using more than just 5 volt it might use 9 Vols or even 12 vs now even if your phone has Quick Charge even if your phone uses its own charger at 5 Vols and 2 Amp you still can't actually plug it into a USB port and let me give an example my Galaxy S6 will charge using Samsung's charger in about 1 hour and 20 minutes however I can plug it into the USB port on my computer and charge it at 5 Vol 0.5 amps which is 2.5 Watt compared to the 10 watts of a 5vt 2 amp charger so 2.5 wats and actually that will take about 6 hours takes 6 hours to charge it that way where it Char about 1 hour and 20 minutes if you use Samsung's charger now this is where quick charging comes in Qualcomm invented this idea that it could charge at higher rates than just 10 watts now I'm going to read to you now some of the numbers just so that you know what kind of different levels we're dealing with so a normal USB ported 5 volt 0.5 amps that's 2. .5 wat a normal charger for a modern day smartphone might be 5 5 volt and 2 amps which will give you 10 wat now quick charging will give you 9 Vols at 1.67 amps so it's less amps less less than 2 amps not 1.67 amps and it will give you 15 watts of power that will get pumped into your battery and quick charge to in fact will even work at 12 vs and if you have 12 volts at 1.67 amps that gives you 20 wats of energy so what happened with Quick Charge 2.0 is that colcom invented a system where they could get up to 20 watts of energy into the phone quick charge 3.0 is basically the same idea but there's one important change with Quick Charge 2.0 there were those just set voltages 9 Vols 12 volts 5 volts 1.67 amps and all those numbers I just read you but now with Quick Charge 3.0 there's an intelligent system intelligent negotiation system that allows the phone and the charger to talk to each other and ask for exactly the volts that the battery requires exactly the amps that the battery requires for its current stage of its charging cycle that means that the phone won't be drawing more than necessary won't be taking more from the charger than it has to which means that that extra heating up effect won't happen as it tries to get rid of the energy it doesn't need now before I go I want to tell you a quick slightly comical story that happened to me this summer a friend of mine very dear friend of mine was I was with him and he didn't have a charger for his phone and he found a charger he didn't talk to me he just found a charger a USB charger and he plugged it in and he came to me a little while later and said my phone isn't charging what's wrong with it have I broken my phone and we went and had a look at it we checked the cables and then I thought to look at the reading on the actual charger and it was an old iPod charger and it was rated at something like 0.1 amp or something it really was quite tiny and of course it wasn't enough energy to actually start charging his phone but there was another charger that he had that looked identical to that one but when you read the label you saw it had a great different output so it's always important to check what's on the label of your charger because they're not all the same one good thing is though is if you charge if you put in a phone into a charger that's too big for it if it's like a 2 Amp one but your phone needs 1 amp for example it doesn't matter it won't blow it up the phone will only draw from the charger what it actually needs but conversely if you stick a bigger charger in it won't charge it up any quicker the phone is the thing that draws the current from the charger the phone is the thing that asks for the current so that it can charge up its battery so you're pretty much safe to plug in just about any charger in fact I've even plugged in the quick charger uh Chargers into a normal phone that doesn't have a quick charging and it works absolutely fine and I've tried quick Chargers on Samsung products and Samsung charges on on Quick Charge approach and they all work fine they're all basically interchangeable because the last thing these companies want is a story of someone plugging in their phone and blowing it up because they Ed their charger on it so it's all going to be okay so back to the uh inov technology the thing about it is is now the phone and the charger can negotiate with each other and the phone is able to ask for anything from 3.2 volts upwards to 20 volt in increments of 200 milliamps okay so that means it has Fine control over what is able to be drawn from the charger which means there'll be less Heat going into the phone less heat means there'll be less heat dissipated means your battery won't heat up so much and of course it saves your electricity bill in fact Qualcomm are saying that this particular new technology is 38% more efficient than a a quot Quick Charge 2.0 now one thing to note is that you're going to need a really good USB cable for this a cheap USB cable isn't going to hack it if you're starting if your phones are starting to draw 12 vol even 20 volts of current down them you're going to need a proper USB cable and probably the one just supplied with your phone will be good enough but if you ever do buy a replacement make sure you buy a quality one cuz that's going to be an issue now of course this is all in the future there are a couple of companies that have already released Quick Charge 3.0 Chargers though they're a bit worthless at the moment because there are no phones that are able to use it however in 2016 maybe even in early 2016 we might start to see some phones that appear with Quick Charge 3 0 technology built into them well my name is Gary Sims from Android authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also please use the links above to subscribe to Android Authority's YouTube channel also hit you'll find links to our social media and my social media links also please use the comments below to tell me what you think about Quick Charge 3.0 technology and if you want you can gripe in general about batteries and battery life that's absolutely fine and as for me I'll see you in my next videohello everybody my name is Gary Sims from Andre Authority now recently Qualcomm announced its latest iteration of its quick charging technology Quick Charge 3.0 and today I want to take a look at what is quick charging and specifically what is quick charging 3.0 so if you're ready let's go now one of the things that probably annoys all of us is our battery life have you found yourself stuck somewhere away from a charger and your battery's down to 10% and you don't know whether you're going to have enough energy left in the battery till you get home and things like that well there are different ways that manufacturers are trying to solve this problem one of course is there's ongoing Battery Technology research and other ways we're trying the companies are trying to build better phones better CPUs better displays and another approach is to have a quick charge technology which allows the phone to be charged up very quickly therefore if we're about to dash out somewhere we can just plug the phone in and a few minutes later it's got enough charge to keep us going until we get home now we need to talk a little bit about charging technology before we go any further the modern Smartphone when it charges it charges in two phases the first phase from 0o to about 80% can be done with quite high levels of energy and the energy just pumped very quickly into the battery however there has to be a trickle charge at the end that last bit from 80% to 100% has to be done at a much lower level of energy that's just the way the batteries work now if you'll notice that when companies like Qualcomm and Samsung talk about Quick Charge what they all talk about is how quickly they can get to 80% we can charge it to 80% in 30 minutes or in 40 minutes or whatever the numbers they are quoting and that's because that first initial stage is very easy for them to pump in that energy however there isn't yet technology that exists for that latter 20% and sometimes that 20% can be actually as long as the initial 80 % or maybe even longer now on your computer you've got a USB port now USB ports used to be the standard way for charging up phones us to plug your phone into the USB port and it would charge up but of course USB has only 5 Vol and 0.5 amps now that was fine for phones of a few years ago with much smaller batteries much smaller displays however today we've got Big 5 in 6in phones that have massive 3,000 4,000 5,000 Mah batteries and they need a lot more energy to charge them up so a modern day phone will come with its own charger that's rated at 5 volts and probably something like 2 amps now that if you wer know bit about physics that gives you a total of 10 watts of energy 2 * 5 10 wats of energy that you can pump into your telephone now Quick Charge works with more wattage than that by using more than just 5 volt it might use 9 Vols or even 12 vs now even if your phone has Quick Charge even if your phone uses its own charger at 5 Vols and 2 Amp you still can't actually plug it into a USB port and let me give an example my Galaxy S6 will charge using Samsung's charger in about 1 hour and 20 minutes however I can plug it into the USB port on my computer and charge it at 5 Vol 0.5 amps which is 2.5 Watt compared to the 10 watts of a 5vt 2 amp charger so 2.5 wats and actually that will take about 6 hours takes 6 hours to charge it that way where it Char about 1 hour and 20 minutes if you use Samsung's charger now this is where quick charging comes in Qualcomm invented this idea that it could charge at higher rates than just 10 watts now I'm going to read to you now some of the numbers just so that you know what kind of different levels we're dealing with so a normal USB ported 5 volt 0.5 amps that's 2. .5 wat a normal charger for a modern day smartphone might be 5 5 volt and 2 amps which will give you 10 wat now quick charging will give you 9 Vols at 1.67 amps so it's less amps less less than 2 amps not 1.67 amps and it will give you 15 watts of power that will get pumped into your battery and quick charge to in fact will even work at 12 vs and if you have 12 volts at 1.67 amps that gives you 20 wats of energy so what happened with Quick Charge 2.0 is that colcom invented a system where they could get up to 20 watts of energy into the phone quick charge 3.0 is basically the same idea but there's one important change with Quick Charge 2.0 there were those just set voltages 9 Vols 12 volts 5 volts 1.67 amps and all those numbers I just read you but now with Quick Charge 3.0 there's an intelligent system intelligent negotiation system that allows the phone and the charger to talk to each other and ask for exactly the volts that the battery requires exactly the amps that the battery requires for its current stage of its charging cycle that means that the phone won't be drawing more than necessary won't be taking more from the charger than it has to which means that that extra heating up effect won't happen as it tries to get rid of the energy it doesn't need now before I go I want to tell you a quick slightly comical story that happened to me this summer a friend of mine very dear friend of mine was I was with him and he didn't have a charger for his phone and he found a charger he didn't talk to me he just found a charger a USB charger and he plugged it in and he came to me a little while later and said my phone isn't charging what's wrong with it have I broken my phone and we went and had a look at it we checked the cables and then I thought to look at the reading on the actual charger and it was an old iPod charger and it was rated at something like 0.1 amp or something it really was quite tiny and of course it wasn't enough energy to actually start charging his phone but there was another charger that he had that looked identical to that one but when you read the label you saw it had a great different output so it's always important to check what's on the label of your charger because they're not all the same one good thing is though is if you charge if you put in a phone into a charger that's too big for it if it's like a 2 Amp one but your phone needs 1 amp for example it doesn't matter it won't blow it up the phone will only draw from the charger what it actually needs but conversely if you stick a bigger charger in it won't charge it up any quicker the phone is the thing that draws the current from the charger the phone is the thing that asks for the current so that it can charge up its battery so you're pretty much safe to plug in just about any charger in fact I've even plugged in the quick charger uh Chargers into a normal phone that doesn't have a quick charging and it works absolutely fine and I've tried quick Chargers on Samsung products and Samsung charges on on Quick Charge approach and they all work fine they're all basically interchangeable because the last thing these companies want is a story of someone plugging in their phone and blowing it up because they Ed their charger on it so it's all going to be okay so back to the uh inov technology the thing about it is is now the phone and the charger can negotiate with each other and the phone is able to ask for anything from 3.2 volts upwards to 20 volt in increments of 200 milliamps okay so that means it has Fine control over what is able to be drawn from the charger which means there'll be less Heat going into the phone less heat means there'll be less heat dissipated means your battery won't heat up so much and of course it saves your electricity bill in fact Qualcomm are saying that this particular new technology is 38% more efficient than a a quot Quick Charge 2.0 now one thing to note is that you're going to need a really good USB cable for this a cheap USB cable isn't going to hack it if you're starting if your phones are starting to draw 12 vol even 20 volts of current down them you're going to need a proper USB cable and probably the one just supplied with your phone will be good enough but if you ever do buy a replacement make sure you buy a quality one cuz that's going to be an issue now of course this is all in the future there are a couple of companies that have already released Quick Charge 3.0 Chargers though they're a bit worthless at the moment because there are no phones that are able to use it however in 2016 maybe even in early 2016 we might start to see some phones that appear with Quick Charge 3 0 technology built into them well my name is Gary Sims from Android authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also please use the links above to subscribe to Android Authority's YouTube channel also hit you'll find links to our social media and my social media links also please use the comments below to tell me what you think about Quick Charge 3.0 technology and if you want you can gripe in general about batteries and battery life that's absolutely fine and as for me I'll see you in my next video\n"