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- Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is reportedly working on smartphone battery technology to support up to 200W wired charging.
- The current wired charging belongs to the same company, which brought 120W chargers to mobile devices.
- It’s unclear what Xiaomi phones will support the new tech, but a new rumor says 200W charging might drop in 2021.
The original iPhone shocked the mobile industry in 2007, instantly “killing” all smartphone concepts that were released until then. The iPhone introduced a design like no other handset, a large touchscreen running a brand new operating system that looked nothing like the BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones of its time. In the years followed, every company in the mobile business made its own iPhone alternative, and phones starting looking more or less similar. That’s when the hardware battles started, with handset vendors looking to differentiate their own devices from the competition. The size of the screen increased year after year, and so did the resolution. Then phone makers started adding more memory and storage to their phones, making a big deal about each upgrade. We also saw the camera megapixels go up significantly, as a means to suggest that more megapixels were enough for better photos. The displays moved closer and closer to the phone's edge with every year that went by. We’ve reached a point where new handsets come in one of the three possible designs: iPhones with notches, Androids with punch-hole screens, and foldables. So handset makers started increasing the refresh rate. The number of cameras on the back of phones has increased in recent years, all part of remaining hardware wars that smartphone makers could still fight. But in many ways, these hardware wars have reached the bleeding edge of technology, and it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to offer standout hardware features. The next smartphone hardware war concerns something else: Battery charging.
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