China's Oppo announces a smartphone battery that fully charges in 15 minutes
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#14WWZ)
Smartphone manufacturer's latest quick-charge technology promises safe, fast and low-temperature charging of full-size smartphone batteries
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has announced that its latest technology, due to hit handsets this year, will fully charge a phone in 15 minutes.
The company's Voltage Open Loop Multi-step Constant-Current Charging - what it calls VOOC - technology, which launched in 2014, mirrored technology from Qualcomm and others that allowed smartphones to charge up to 80% in under an hour.
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