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hello my name is Gary Simms from Andrea Laura T now our smartphones all use batteries in fact they're rechargeable batteries and when the battery is depleted we plug in the phone to recharge it it's something that we do almost every day sometimes without even think we just plug in our phone and off we go and do something else but since it's something that we do every day wouldn't it be nice if we can actually find out which phones charge the fastest well we've done some tests and today we're going to find out which are the fastest charging phones on the market today so if you're ready let's go phones and the result just let me tell you something quickly about how mobile phone batteries charge the battery in a mobile phone charges in two phases the initial phase charges a phone rapidly up to 80 percent and then the last 20% uses less energy and actually takes a bit longer to reach that top level that's why quick charging technologies like quick charge 2.0 from coal coma quick charge three point zero can say the phone is charged to 80% in so minutes because that is the first phase of the charging cycle however the second phase of the charging cycle can actually take much longer than we maybe would think because there's less and less energy being put into the mobile phone now is what I was just measuring how many minutes it takes to charge these phones we've also used a special little dongle to tell us how much volts and how much amps are being drawn by the phone to charge up its battery and that gives us an interesting graph that shows us those two distinct charging cycles so what fold did we use well here is a list of the phones in alphabetical order the BlackBerry Prive the galaxy note5 the HTC One m9 the huawei mate s the LG g3 the LG g4 the LG v10 the Moto X force the Moto X style the Nexus 6p the Oppo r5 the Sony is eight five the Sony z5 premium and the Asus zenfone 2 so amongst those phones we get quite a range of different battery sizes and a different range of charging technologies let's start by looking at the battery sizes as you can see the Oppo r5 has the smallest battery fox eyes at just 2,000 milliamps followed by the mate s and the one HTC One m9 then we see in the middle quite a block of phones including the note 5 the LG g3 the LG g4 and so on that use a 3000 milliamp hour battery now 3000 milliamp seems to be the median battery size in our group for this test today and then towards the bottom we see some phones we have some larger batteries including the BlackBerry Prive the z5 premium the Nexus 6p and lastly with the biggest battery the Moto X force which has a batch of three thousand seven hundred and fifty milliamp hours now some of those phones just use a normal charging circuit some of them use a quick charging circuit like Qualcomm quick charge 2.0 and it's variations from Samsung and from Motorola so it will be interesting to see how quickly they can all charge up their batteries so I want to start off by showing you the charging profile of the huawei mate s it doesn't have any particular quick charging technology and it just uses a normal 5 volt 2 amp charger so let's have a see what its profile looks like so as you can see this phone draws 7.5 watts from the charger for an hour and a half now it does this level of 7.5 watts by using five point one volts and one point for six amps now as the battery level reaches 80% the amount of what's going into the battery starts to decrease it drops down to five watts at one hour 40 minutes and right down to two watts at the two hour mark in fact it goes down to almost one watt as the battery reaches a hundred percent now the total charging time is over two hours for the huawei mate s now the Huawei doesn't have any particular quick charging technology however let's have a look at a phone that does have some quick charging technology namely the HTC One m9 now as you can see here the phone starts by charging at 12 watts and it does that for the first 40 minutes and then it creeps down to 10 watts as we go past the hour mark and then when the battery reaches 70 percent of its charge the amount of wattage starts to drop significantly and in fact in the end it goes under 2 watts and this gives a total charging time of all so over two hours so we can see the difference between a normal charging circuit and a quick charging circuit by the number of watts that are drawn from the charger by the phone however that didn't really seem to affect the overall charging time let's have a look another example what we see here is the charging profile of the Motorola MOTO X force and as you can see it starts by drawing 20 watts and it does that for around half an hour and then as the phone hits it about 70 percent mark it starts to drop significantly however never goes under five watts and as a result of that we can see that it has a charging time of one hour and nine minutes so we can see that if enough energy is pumped into the battery by the charger then the battery can be charged quite quickly if you want to see more charging profiles you want to see more graphs of the amount of wattage and the battery levels and the time index used to charge each of these phones please go to the Android or 30.com website where you'll see more of them in the written companion that goes along with this video now that we've looked at the charging profiles it's time to look at which phones actually charge the fastest so without further ado here are the results and as we can see with that 20 watts of charging during its initial phase the Moto X force is the phone that charges the quickest at just 69 minutes that's followed closely behind by the Moto X style the LG v10 and then slightly a bit longer the galaxy note 5 now what's interesting here is the LG g3 which is a relatively old phone still does a very good job in charging and is able to charge its battery in under a hundred minutes now the other end of the scale we see the Sony Zed 5 and the BlackBerry Prive both have very long charging times longer in fact than the huawei mate s that we looked at originally earlier on in this video in fact the BlackBerry Prive sticks out quite differently there from all the other phones so it's ranged in to see which phone to charge the fastest however since they all have different battery sizes it would also begin to see which phones actually charge at the highest rate so in the next graph I've taken the number of minutes taken to charge the phone and the battery size to calculate which phones actually charge the phones fastest per minute so let's have a look and it's no surprise with that 20 watts of charging during its initial charging phase the Moto X force is still at the top in fact so is the Moto X style and the LG v10 and the galaxy note 5 we also find that the LG g4 and the LG g3 are in that top list however there are some changes towards the bottom for example the Oppo r5 has the smallest battery in our group but actually also has the lowest charge rate and although the BlackBerry print was the slowest it's not actually the slowest phone in terms of how much it charges per minute talking of the a5 I'd wanted to mention that Oppo does have its own quick charging technology one that uses 5 volts but at 4 amps to give a total of 20 watts how we tested the r5 and the r7 and we couldn't get them to go above the normal 1.5 or 1.8 amps during the charging cycle it would have been nice to see that because the Oppo r5 has only a two thousand milliamp hour battery and it would lovely to see how quickly that could charge using 20 watts however in our testing it never seemed to kick in so sorry about that so what does all this mean well clearly the charging technology from motorola is the best the Moto X fourth and the Moto X style are the top of our charging tables and LG seems to do a pretty good job of charging their devices because the LG v10 the LG g4 and the LG g3 are all in our top six we mustn't forget of course the samsung galaxy note 5 which also has a good rating in our tables at the other end of the table we see that Sony and Blackberry don't have a very strong showing and personally I was expecting more from these two very well known companies well please do use the comments below to tell me what you think about the charging times of these devices is charging time something that sways your decision when you come to choose a new mobile phone or don't you just care because you just plug it in overnight and the next morning the phone is charged it doesn't really make any difference to you also please don't forget to subscribe to Android or ''tis youtube channel also you can follow me and android authority on social media don't forget to check out the other videos that we are producing for you and as for me I'll see you in my next video you