China Unveils World's Fattest Phone Charger

A Chinese technology company has designed a new battery which can charge to full in 20 minutes – beating current phones by huge margin. Meizu’s Super mCharge can deliver up to 55 watts – using ‘two groups of conversion circuits to directly output half of the voltage.’ To put the speed in context, rivals such as iPhone 7 and Samsung’s Galaxy S7 take between 90 minutes and two hours to Charge. Meizu claims that the super-fast charging doesn’t damage batteries (usually the downside of fast charging technology).

People look at the devices of the Chinese label Meizu that shows the techology Meizu super mCharge able to charge the battery in 20 minutes during at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, northeastern Spain. The congress runs from 27 february to 02 March 2017, under the motto What’s not clear is when this tech will show up in handsets on the shelves – but it’s been shown off in working form, so it is likely to appear in Android handsets before too long.