Today Tony is going to talk to you about a very important, but often overlooked digital 3C accessory, which is called a charging head.
Here's the thing, when we went to the MWC exhibition in Shanghai last year, we found that we only needed to use the charging head to tell if it was a Chinese media teacher or a foreign one...
For example, in this very intuitive picture, the two top-heavy ones in the middle, with an even large charging head like a brick, are most likely used by Japanese and Korean media teachers.
And the "bells and whistles" of Pandaer and the Red Devils on both sides of the charging head, a glance at the Chinese media teacher...
Indeed, Tony also found that I don't know when it started, and there were more and more charging heads in China, and even such a small thing had to roll up the appearance, function, and price.
This is indeed related to the increase in everyone's travel demand, you need to bring a more convenient and easy-to-use charging head to charge, everyone must hope that this thing is as convenient to carry as possible.
The other is that now we have more and more digital products, mobile phones, tablets, watches, computers and even electric toothbrushes, several USB ports are plugged in for you in minutes, so you naturally need a charging head with a large power socket and many sockets.
And, the iPhone doesn't give a charging head now, you have to buy it yourself...
The combination of these reasons has contributed to the prosperity of the domestic charging head market.
For example, the Red Devil gallium nitride charging head in the hand of a colleague, with 120W high power plus 4 ports, and the appearance of the Transformers co-brand, is luxurious from the inside out.
But abroad is a completely different scene, the charging head is not only expensive to death, but also the power is pitifully small...
For example, I casually searched from Amazon, and the first 4-port charging head with no design came out, and the total power was only an astonishing 24W...
Can you explain to me, what is the premium performance of TM?
Tony doesn't know where this charging head is, but it shouldn't be too much to say that American digital enthusiasts are living in dire straits.
So the question is, why are foreign charging heads big, ugly and slow to charge, and the charging power can't be made bigger, or make the charging head smaller? Is it crooked nuts that don't like to use a good charging head?
Well... Yes and no.
Everyone here may not think that if you really want to explain the charging head clearly, you have to start from two parts, one is the market strategy, and the other is the historical legacy...
Poor friends can think about it simply, you will find that the charging power is basically domestic brands, and the charging power of foreign brands of mobile phones is ridiculously low.
If you can't remember what other mobile phone brands are abroad, Tony can simply help you figure it out.
First of all, everyone must know about Guoguo, right? But the charging speed of the iPhone 15 Pro Max is only about 25W at the highest measurement, which is even only a fraction of that of domestic mobile phones...
As for Samsung, the other Wolong Phoenix Chick, his Galaxy S24 also has only 25W charging power, while the S24+ and S24 Ultra are reasonable to say, with 45W.
In fact, after talking about these two giants, you can summarize how low the charging power of mobile phones used by many people in the world is...
And coincidentally, these two are the top two brands in the world's smartphone market share, and the two brands together account for 43% of the global share...
These two brands happen to be the main force of sales in overseas markets.
When the time comes, when other brands look at it, these two big brothers don't do fast charging, so what else can I do?
In addition to Guoguo and Xingxing, there are some overseas brands that are relatively niche to us, such as the miscellaneous mobile phone Sony Xperia 1 V, which has a charging power of only 33W.
Google's own Pixel 8 Pro is only 30W.
As for the Nothing Phone(2), it gives a 45W charging power, which is fast for a foreign brand...
So looking at it this way, the charging power of foreign mobile phone brands is generally very small, which is indeed true.
How to say it, our domestic mobile phone 80W charging can be complained about as a shortcoming, but the foreign 45W is considered very fast, and the joys and sorrows of a person are not the same.
But there is also a counterexample that is not a counterexample,Since Motorola was incorporated by Lenovo,His configuration has also begun to roll in,For example, the charging power of moto X40 directly rushes to 125W,The main one is to follow the local customs。。。
But on the whole, these foreign brands are just as good as they say, and the charging power is not large.
It's not like we don't do fast charging.,It's that fast charging hasn't appeared at all.,I don't know if we're overhead.,Or we're overhead abroad.。。。
Regarding this situation, there is also a saying on the Internet that the pace of life abroad is slow and there is no need for fast charging, unlike when we have to get up in the morning and have to plug in the charger to fill the mobile phone or something.
For this statement, I can only say that you have not watched too much of "Yilin"...
This is the same as why people are reading books in foreign subways, not because people love to read, but because the subway has no signal and can't play with mobile phones...
When fast charging spreads in foreign countries one day, you see that they will be done without using it.
As for the other reason, it is a problem left over from history, which even starts from the time when Edison first invented direct current...
Let's go back more than 100 years, after Edison invented direct current, the world's first central power plant was unveiled in New York, with three 110V DC generators in it.
Then came the Second Industrial Revolution, in which electric wires were laid up and down in the United States, and lighting equipment such as electric lights entered thousands of homes.
But after that, the Americans suddenly found that it was a bit difficult to improve the efficiency of power transmission by increasing the voltage, such as raising the 110V to 220V at that time...
Because the government has paved the 110V line at this time, the household appliances bought by the people are also from 110V, and now they want to change to 220V, which makes it difficult for everyone to do...
So after coming and going, the United States passed down this 110V voltage.
As a result, I never expected that the rules set more than 100 years ago would actually affect the charging speed in the smartphone era...
Here, we have to invite our victim to appear on the scene.
When the OnePlus 10 Pro was released, it was equipped with 80W SUPERVOOC flash charging, and as one of the few domestic mobile phones that can be sold in the United States, foreign digital enthusiasts are also looking forward to it.
As a result, the United States got the phone and charged it, and found that something was wrong...
No, buddy, why is the charging power of your mobile phone only 65W...
THE REASON IS SIMPLE, AS ONEPLUS'S 80W SUPERVOOC FLASH CHARGING DOESN'T SUPPORT 110V OR 120V AC.
Alas, my dignified "charge for five minutes, talk for two hours" green factory, when did I suffer this grievance...
Of course, this is not necessarily the case for all chargers.
We specifically asked the people of Flash, and they said that as long as the general charging head is a wide range of voltage, such as 100V-240V and the like, then it can be full in other countries.
However, in the test of the 110V environment specially done by the charging head network, the power of some chargers will also be reduced.
On the other hand, low voltage will also make the charging head more troublesome to design, and may also indirectly cause the charging head to become ugly.
For example, I have this flash pole 100W charging head Mijia Bluetooth version on hand, because the voltage adaptation of the Bluetooth chip is more complicated, so the applicable power of this charging head is adjusted to 180V-240V.
As a result, when I use it in the United States or Japan, it can only output 50W of power...
And its non-Bluetooth standard version, the adaptation voltage is a wide range of 100V-240V, there is no such "power cut in half" problem.
If you want to bring Bluetooth and want to do global voltage, you have to modify a lot of circuits, but in this case, the voltage is not a problem at that time, and the volume will go up again...
On the other hand, due to socket standards and other reasons, some countries have also affected the appearance of the plug, making the volume "high".
I'm talking about the UK and a series of countries like the Commonwealth, I've never seen such a big charger...
Tony went to Singapore once before, and he also bought an adapter in advance, and then there was a picture of "head on the head" stacking Arhats...
This is mainly due to the difference in electricity specifications, the plug with a bit of a strange design in the UK is also called Type-G or BS 1363 plug, among the three plugs, the top one is called the ground wire, and the lower two are called neutral wire and live wire.
In the British plug, the ground wire is longer than the neutral wire and the live wire, that is, the ground wire has been connected before the live wire and the neutral wire are connected.
In this way, even if the electrical appliance leaks, the current will go to the ground wire first, and it will not overpower.
Moreover, the area around the British plug is also larger, and it is less likely for the hand to touch the latch, which is indeed relatively safer.
So the price.,It's this big, ugly and bulky charging head.。。。
So after such a circle, foreign manufacturers have no plans to do fast charging, and I don't know if it's an appointment, if you don't do it, I won't do it, and the main one is rotten.
In addition, the voltage and plug specifications of some countries are also different, so if you want to achieve the unification of the world's charging heads, everyone can use small and beautiful charging fast charging heads, and realize the freedom of charging, it seems that it is basically impossible to do it at present...
In any case, I still hope that our domestic brands can actively go to sea, so that more people can use good-looking and easy-to-use charging heads.
Anyway, on the next business trip, Tony is already planning to bring the coolest charging head in the office to open the eyes of foreigners...