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Vivo teases tech that can charge your phone to 100% in 13 minutes

  (Agence France-Presse)
Fri, June 21, 2019

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Vivo teases tech that can charge your phone to 100% in 13 minutes No further details were revealed about the Super FlashCharge 120W technology, but if it makes it into a commercial product soon, such a solution would be the fastest on the market, tripling the charging speed of the fastest Vivo tech currently available. (Shutterstock/File)

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n Thursday, a Vivo product manager published a video to Weibo showing off a new technology that can charge a smartphone with a 4,000 mAh battery from zero to 100 percent in just 13 minutes.

A Vivo product manager, known on the Chinese social media platform Weibo as Golan V, has published a video teasing a new technology developed by the company that can charge a 4,000 mAh smartphone in 13 minutes.

No further details were revealed about the Super FlashCharge 120W technology, but if it makes it into a commercial product soon, such a solution would be the fastest on the market, tripling the charging speed of the fastest Vivo tech currently available.

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In the same amount of time that Oppo's Super VOOC Flash Charge -- the fastest tech presently available -- can fill a 3,400mAh battery, Vivo's Super FlashCharge 120W tech could have charged three 4,000 mAh handsets. Huawei's Super Charge 2.0 system can charge a phone to 70% in 30 minutes, and Samsung's Fast Charging equipment can only recharge designated devices to 50% in the same amount of time.

Within his responses to comments made about the video, Golan V stated that more details about the technology will be revealed during Mobile World Congress Shanghai which will kick off next week on June 26. 

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