[HN Gopher] How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging...
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       How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies
       in detail
        
       Author : uycyp
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2025-04-22 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (eb43.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (eb43.github.io)
        
       | uycyp wrote:
       | Today, a charger is a full-fledged computer with more processing
       | power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft that brought humans to the
       | Moon. Before the charging adapter starts pumping the voltage, it
       | must first communicate with the smartphone. Incompatibility of
       | the communication software protocol is the reason why a
       | smartphone with USB PD, for example, cannot fast charge from a
       | VOOC charger.
       | 
       | Read on technical details of fast charging technologies. Find out
       | why the best charger - is your old feature phone's charger.
        
       | billfor wrote:
       | I don't think Apple was the first to use the magnets to align the
       | phone to the charger. I think I had a nexus 5 that had the
       | magnets in the phone and google Qi charger -- that would
       | perfectly align the phone and charger.
        
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