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over the years since smartphones became a thing specifications have been on the continual march upward processors have gotten faster from megahertz in the hundreds to gigahertz in the plural they've also added cores with quad and even octa-core as being somewhat commonplace ran is increased from a few dozen megabytes to a few gigabytes storage is increased too and data speeds are through the roof one area that hasn't seen much improvement over the years is battery capacity though battery capacities may still be lagging OMS are giving us the next best thing by decreasing our charge times I'm Joe Levi with pocket now let's take a look at some quick charging technologies that promise to deliver the charge that we need right when we need it I got my first taste of quick charging with Google's Motorola made Nexus 6 and it's turbo charger prior to that experience I was firmly entrenched in the Qi wireless charging camp though relatively slow the convenience of Qi let me charge my phone whenever I set it down using this downtime to top off my phone's battery quick charging changed all that Qualcomm began cooking quick charge into its chips back in 2012 the intent standardized a method to charge devices faster quick charge 1.0 was devised and enabled phones to charge using 2 amp chargers much faster than the 500 milliamp half an amp that USB 1 and USB 2 provided even USB 3 only formerly supports up to nine hundred milliamps that's point 9 amps Qualcomm quick charge 1.0 seemed to be more an afterthought than a selling point though many phones over 70 included the feature if you included it on their spec sheets Qualcomm's first iteration attempted to be backwards compatible and succeeded but this limited its upward capabilities and ultimately gave birth to version 2.0 to achieve full charging speeds a quick charge 2.0 enable device must be paired with a quick charge 2.0 certified adapter back when Samsung released its Note 3 phablet it included a micro USB 3.0 port this double-wide port and relatively rigid cable helps decrease charge times but required a special cable and compatible charger or compatible USB port needless to say it didn't stick around very long subsequently Samsung has gotten into the quick charging game using its adaptive fast charge technology and chargers designed for that standard in Pacific Qualcomm's it's impressive to the Galaxy s6 edge can be charged with up to four hours of use with only 10 minutes on the proprietary charger the most recent entrant into the quick charging race is Opel with its loop or vio OC flash charge technology like other charging technologies luke is based on 5 volt DC power however like other quick Chargers the ways Opel reduced charge time is by boosting the amperage and voltage through a special charger the challenge Oleum space when boosting voltage and amperage is with resistance heat and managing the two in a manner that will enable quick charging without making your battery explode Lopo accomplishes this by increasing the number of pins delivering power to the battery in its latest devices to eighth most batteries only have four pins and the number of the pins in the cable has been increased to 7 obviously this means you'll need special cables elbow has colored the inside of its boot compatible chargers and it's cables to green to help you identify them elbows also move the charging the controller out of the phone into the adapter thereby moving the heat generated by that circuit into the adapter itself rather than keeping it all pent up inside the phone which results in a much cooler phone while charging and helps accelerate the charging cycle to prevent users from damaging devices that are not equipped with loop technology outpost chargers are able to recognize compatible devices and use standard charging in those cases where vu isn't present how do these three standards stack up well after 30 minutes of charging the results are obvious popo's the clear winner unlike other devices Opel can flash charge with the screen on to after 60 minutes well it's pretty much game over for our battery life woes looking at this table we can see that with the screen on all Poe charges up to 71% in half an hour whereas the galaxy s6 only makes it to 25 the Nexus 6 is a little better at 35% and the iPhone 6 plus only makes it up to 12% but it's really at that one hour time with the screen off the oppo n3 gets 96% that's impressive opus v OC or vu is the latest player in the quick charging game as you'd probably expect it's in the lead for now what's more important here is that we have players from three different camps that have all recognized the need for a better way to charge our phones they've come up with three very similar yet significantly different methods to solve that problem so although our battery capacities still haven't caught up with the other specs on the spec sheets of our modern handhelds our chargers certainly have one thing we noticed in our testing is that the percentages and the times of our devices varied but quite a bit environmental conditions but tributed to differences in times and also different devices that had different things installed on them and hence running in the background also affected charge time so your charge times regardless of if you're using one of these technologies or not is going to vary somewhat from our test cases if you like quick charging make sure you give the video a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed yet you'll want to make sure that you do that so you don't miss out on any new cool stuff coming down the line if you want to see more information about the Samsung Galaxy s6 or the oppo n3 or other devices we've got videos for you over at pocketnow.com you won't want to miss those either for pocket now comparing ways that we can make our phones last longer right when we need them I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching and we will catch you next time