Fast charging and high refresh rate are definitely the biggest innovations in smart phones in the past five years, and they are also innovations that ordinary users can feel with the naked eye. It is an innovation that cannot be returned when it is used, and the demand for fast charging is relatively larger than that of high refresh rate. Especially in the past three years, the Android camp has dried up the fast charge to 150W, and the most ordinary thousand yuan machines have used 20W or even faster fast charging.
But everyone has thought about it, it seems that the development of fast charging technology is so fast, but the real popularity rate is extremely low. On April 7, Xu Qi, vice president of realme, did a survey on Weibo, and the content of the survey was to see how much W fast charging everyone is currently using. On April 10, he released the preliminary results of the survey, and unexpectedly, 50% of the users who participated were still using fast charging below 50W. At the same time, he also made a warm-up, realme this time the Q series of new machines, can make it easy for everyone to achieve "flash charge freedom", personal guess should be at least 65W, a little ahead should use 80W.
In fact, it is very normal for such a result to occur, because fast charging above 50W has only begun to be popularized in mid-range machines since the second half of 2021. Previously, even the flagship machine only used a fast charge between 37W and 50W, and now the cycle of consumer replacement is getting longer and longer, and some users even do not change their mobile phones for 3-4 years. At that time, the flagship machine did not use the 50W fast charge, not to mention the reasons for the positioning of the model, such as the folding screen currently does not have a high-power fast charging model.
In addition, we also need to consider the iPhone users of the iOS platform, and now the maximum charging power used by Apple is only 20W, and it is too difficult for iPhone users to achieve "fast charging freedom".
Of course, now I have to say that the Android camp is really radical in fast charging, and there is a trend of popularizing 100-watt fast charging. The mid-range machines such as the Redmi Note 11 series have one that uses 120W fast charging, while other brands have begun to fully popularize 65W and 80W fast charging on mid-range machines.
Realme is actually very good at fast charging, but realme and OPPO and OnePlus are common fast charging technologies. After the resource sharing, the cost has dropped a lot, and the popularization is faster.