Smart phones fast battery charging, just got a lot more faster.

[Emmanuel Godwin]

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Now you'll agree with me that we're already living in that future that everyone once envisioned and saw as a dream. Like literally everything you can lay your hands on in the past that requires manual hand work, all has been automated and that just makes the process a whole lot more faster and less prone to error. But that's not really what we're here to talk about today. Now when i say we're already living in the future, can we just drift that concept or statement rather, to the aspect of smart phones fast battery charging technology?. sure we can right? So why then we not just do it?


So first of all, you'll all agree with me that charging on smart phones has become a whole lot faster. Like can you recall those days when you'd have to wait for about four to six hours just for a 2700mAh battery to get fully charged? What of those periods when you have to charge a new cell phone for about eight hours or more before you can start making use of it? Good old memories right?

img - 'Good old memories - Pininterest

But take a quick look around you today and what have we? Smartphone batteries that can literally go from 0 to 100% in about just an hour or more, or even less. Take for example the Huawei's Mate 20 Pro 40W charger that can literally take the phone from zero flat to a whooping 70% in just a 30mins of charge. All these changes are taking place because of what? Well thanks to fast battery charging technology.

img - 'Charging Huawei Mate 20 Pro image.'

Now looking at all these changes and how far we've come, anyone will readily agree with me that we have come to the peak of fast battery charging in our smart phones. Like pushing that a little bit more further might pose a risk of explosion or some other deadly electrical hazards, to both the humans making use of these phones, and the smart phones themselves. Well if you're thinking in that direction, i will say that you're thinking right, but.. there's always a but.

So the but here is this. First of all, yes, not only can fast battery charging be pushed a whole lot more further than what we have today, second is that it wouldn't expose us to any risk of battery or charger explosions, or to any other life threatening situations. You want to know why and how? well, I'll show you how.

img - 'Anker PowerPort Atom P1D1'

Now take a look at that photo up there, that is the 'Anker PowerPort Atom PD1'. Now one thing you have to know about this charger is that, this is not your regular smart phone fast charger. Reason is because, it is not just your regular smart phone charger. Now I'll tell you why.

First of all, till today, smart phones charger, in fact not only chargers but almost every electronic gadgets out there that requires electric current to pass through them before they could function, all made use of a very popular material called silicon. You can find them in smart phones and their chargers, in fact they are the back bone of modern microprocessors. So you can find them in literally everywhere that it needs to be. Because why not, they're very good and really fast conductors of electricity.

But what if i tell you there's something else or another material rather, that seems to be a whole lot better, let's say a thousand times better than the traditional silicon we've been used to. Well i'm talking of this new material called the 'Gallium Nitride (GaN)' , and that is what is running in the Anker PowerPort Atom PD1.

img - 'Silicon chargers vs Gallium Nitride Chargers'

Though it isn't all that new, because it has for long already been in used in some of our electronic gadgets like CD and DVD players, but i guess it was just discovered recently that it could be used to hasten a lot of other activities in our daily lives, like charging our smart phones, and not even only smart phones, but every other electronic gadgets out there that requires charging.

GaN is the optical layer on the LED that reads CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs so you're already using it.
- Android Central

So in what ways is Gallium Nitride far more better than Silicon? Well, in so many ways.

First is that it is a better conductor than Silicon, and more resistant to heat even at very high voltages. Which simply means a charger that makes use of this material will get less hotter in comparison to a one that makes use of Silicon.

Second is that, it is highly compressible, which simply means that more of this Gallium Nitride can be squeezed into a much more lesser space, than you would do with Silicon, which simply results at very fast chargers, that come in very small and sexy sizes and forms. Here is a picture of the Anker PowerPort Atom PD1 and one of Apple's MacBook fast charger, but that little thing you're seeing sitting innocently right there, delivers a much greater punch that the bigger buddy beside it.

img - Anker PowerPort Atom PD1 vs Apple MacBook Charger'

Another thing is that, Gallium Nitride requires less power or electricity to work, which also adds to its less heat generation that i mentioned above. And one last thing is that, for now, this technology is pretty still on the expensive side of things. Like right now, the Anker Power whatever literally costs a $54.99 to acquire, but i believe that's just because it's still an emerging technology, and as time goes on and more companies begins to pick interest in it and start implementing them, competition will rise, and whenever competition rises you know what that means right? Well we'll get to see more cheaper, more efficient and more powerful Gallium Nitride chargers littering the market. But for now, let's keep making use of our good old fast silicon chargers and enjoy the moment.


SOURCE - Correct Blogger.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Voltage has gone way up.
But all I want to do is charge once a day.

 

[Hadron]

I'm afraid I've been marking a lot of reports recently and it's hard to get out of that mode! So apologies for this

I'd say it's a promising first draft, but I'd have given it another round of checking before publishing.

* You need to be careful that both the content and the phrasing is accurate. For example, GaN transistors can be made smaller than an equivalent Si transistor, so someone might say you can "pack more into" a volume. But that does not literally mean that you compress the GaN crystal, just that you can fit more transistors into a given volume because they are smaller (I'm sure a higher heat tolerance doesn't hurt either).

* Enthusiasm is fine, but be wary of hype: whatever you say must be factually correct. For example, you claim that this 30W charger "packs a much greater punch" than a Macbook charger. Well it is smaller, but since the least powerful Macbook charger is also 30W, with the other options being 61W and 87W, the claim that it "packs a much greater punch" is incorrect.

* On a similar note, beware of statements like "say a thousand times better". If you put a number to it then there must be some measure by which it's better by that much. If you don't say what that is (and here you don't) it just comes across as like the way a small child would say that one toy is "a million times better" than another, which isn't what you want.

* Dispassionate, sentence-by-sentence proof reading is also important. Try to read it as if it had been written by someone else, where you don't know what the author was thinking but only have the words that were written. Is it clear? Are there errors? And what impression does it give of the author? As an example, if you read this in a piece by someone else, what would you think?

Now one thing you have to know about this charger is that, this is not your regular smart phone fast charger. Reason is because, it is not just your regular smart phone charger.

I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, but when you are writing stuff down, or going back and changing bits, it's easy to miss things like that. This is why I'd always advise that when you've finished you should give yourself a break, then come back to it and give it a careful, critical read before you consider it done.

Given a little tidying you've got the makings of an interesting article.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Given a little tidying you've got the makings of an interesting article.

The OP isn't its author--he copied/pasted from the source given at the end. Hence the missing images.