Redmi introduces 300W fast charging which fills a phone battery in 5 minutes

28 February 2023
A phone can charge from 0 to 100% in five minutes, says the Xiaomi brand.

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People, charge with 5W charger if you want to. Redmi (or Oppo and others) wont force you to use fast charging if you dont want to. They just let you choose. Those arguing like being forced to use 300W, just one question: What is bad about having more charging options?

    AnonD-1086827, 28 Feb 2023This will be good for people who spend majority of the day ... moreI dont understand the argument you trying to make. Seems like you are trying to impose how you live on other people. Just because you living your live like that, doesnt mean everyone is living in the same situation as yours. Whats so hard to accept that people want to have more options?

      Cyberchum, 28 Feb 2023It's you who don't know what white elephant means... moreHere's the definition of white elephant from wikipedia:

      A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness.

      So, the question for you is: Are the users forced to only use 300W all the time? This is assuming you do know all Xiaomi phones still chargeable using any QC charger.

      On to your next assumption that manufacturers of such tech never thought of overcharging. I hope your assumption is not based on you sharing the same bias that "Chinese OEMs dont care about safety" shown by some commenters here.

      I have heard the same argument since 2020 when Xiaomi introduced 120W charging. Some people even said we will see more often explosions from using 120W charging. Can you show me one case of user complaint about battery lifespan dramatically shortened by 120W charging?

        Anonymous, 28 Feb 2023https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNzS5KC6fo Explain us why... moreThis is confirmation bias.. you use one implementation of fast charging as a blanket

        Please consider other smartphone manufacturers

        Xiaomi is not the leader in ultra fast charging oppo is

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          • Bruce
          • YRk
          • 01 Mar 2023

          Can Xiaomi add a function to let us enable 5W slow charge ? Please.

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            • Anonymous
            • i8j
            • 01 Mar 2023

            I would love to have one for work. On my main device I can disable fast charge to have a cool and slow 5W charging, it takes ages but I don't mind. My work phone supports 33W of charging and it's usually done in about 50 minutes. At my work we use a lot our phones and in time of need it would be nice to have it ready in 5 minutes (I don't like doing incomplete charges, not the best but when it goes 5% or lower I charge it until it's full again).

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              • Shiva
              • CbA
              • 28 Feb 2023

              O god plz help the battery

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                • Android Guy
                • s89
                • 28 Feb 2023

                Meanwhile in Sept 8 event.
                We have uped the charging to 30W fastest in the iphone ever. But only you have seperate charger or buy a new one

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                  • Anonymous
                  • DkD
                  • 28 Feb 2023

                  AnonD-1086827, 28 Feb 2023This will be good for people who spend majority of the day ... morewrite a book about it....

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                    • AnonD-1086827
                    • ps9
                    • 28 Feb 2023

                    This will be good for people who spend majority of the day on their phones.
                    For all other people, who have also other things to do in life, 60 minutes for charging a phone is not bad at all.
                    My previous iPhone 11 charged from 20-90% in about 60 minutes. 90% of the battery was enough for 7h of SoT with normal usage. Enough for 2 days of usage for me.
                    And now I have even a worse charging phone. A Samsung phone, which is capable of charging with 25W charger, but I use 15W charger and it charges from 20-90% in about 80 minutes. Not that big of a deal for me, as I can do other things while my phone is charging.
                    And I usually charge my phone very early in the morning or late in the evenings.
                    I had in the past a 120W charging capable phone. It was ok, but it was bad period for me, because I stayed on my phone all the time and I didn't enjoyed other things.

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                      • Kik
                      • 28 Feb 2023

                      --SgR, 28 Feb 2023This all is supposed to be supported in Favor of 'lets... moreWow

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                        • 28 Feb 2023

                        Anonymous, 28 Feb 2023With this phone you can use you're 1A/5V (5Watt) charg... more1A/5V (5Watt) charger.
                        A 50 sensor to make sure you're 5W charging is safe

                        Yeah that's want

                        I would want too come in the box with a phone
                        that was designed too work with that phone model I buy with a surge protect built into the changer

                        For battery's too be more durable and bigger and user replaceable

                        Other than that
                        Not all people opposed improvement and scared of science

                        But it's neither a improved or science

                        Yet is already proved it just makes phones batterys swelling and die sooner plus poor battery health

                        Besides, xiaomi is not Samsung
                        Nope similar Xiaomi phone also overheat and blow up Redmi 6a redmi 9a Redmi 7

                        The redmi 6a actually killed something by blowing up
                        So Xiaomi is no better as clearly they have same problems as Samsung just hidden under there Redmi brand

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                          • Anonymous
                          • U@6
                          • 28 Feb 2023

                          Redeemer, 28 Feb 2023Looks like advancements in wireless charging has ceased?Wireless is Fraud bro, too much energy is wasted as heat.

                          You can get 90% efficiency with wire and 95% with silicon carbide electronics, but with wireless the efficiency is 15% at most, the rest of the energy is quickly converted into heat energy.

                            Anonymous, 28 Feb 2023I dont think you know what white elephant means. White elep... moreIt's you who don't know what white elephant means, because who told you that it is something one was forced to get?

                            Charging speed this high means that phones would often hit 100% and still be plugged in, especially when very few manufacturers have Samsung's (and Sony's) "protect battery" feature that limits charging to 85%. Also, the knowledge that they'd easily top it to full in short time would also see many using the phone until the battery percentage is in single digits. Both practices hurt the longevity of lithium ion cells. Which means more battery replacements. White elephant! Get it now?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • U@6
                              • 28 Feb 2023

                              Koishi Komeiji, 28 Feb 2023next 2024 = 350w realme charger (100% charged in 4 minut... moreYour home AC supports upto 3600 Watts, so your phone can easily charge at 3609 Watts.

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                                • 28 Feb 2023

                                User, 28 Feb 2023Well it is basically like injection so instant.. It is very... moreIn the real world you don't fix a problem of battery life by killing the batterys quicker

                                You don't fix battery life problem by having a super man Changer

                                This a problem with the batterys themselves and you fix the battery problem with you better battery's

                                We don't live in the movie in the real world it doesn't work like that never will

                                Safety hazards happen instead

                                  Mollisol, 28 Feb 2023What is madness is a smartphone charging 1-2 hours in 2023 ... moreRed herring. This isn't about phones taking 1-2 hours to charge. And, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a phone taking 1 hour to charge.

                                  That said, bring your VALID arguments against a phone taking 1 hour to charge, let's dissect it. Objective arguments, not some subjective mess!

                                    Anonymous, 28 Feb 2023it was only comparison how people were saying in the past t... moreThe basis of your argument is, like I said, flawed. People wrongly saying that more RAM isn't needed won't, in any way, negate those saying that wattage this high isn't necessarily, because the argument for RAM isn't relatable to that of wattage. Like I said, applications grow in size. Unless a new battery tech is adopted, the density of lithium ion cells make it impossible for their sizes to keep growing. Because the larger they are, the heavier the phone becomes.

                                    Logic is clearly not your forte!

                                      sayabosanhidup, 28 Feb 2023batteries are cheap these days compared to time time is mo... moreBelieve me, more than half of the people here, especially youngsters these days, have too much free time which they replace with their phones, until the point where they become dependent, and thus they want, not need, but want faster charging so that they can stay more on their phones and not wait for it to charge. Time is money, indeed. But the problem is that brands these days are just trying to implement more features that at first sound great, and they would be great and useful but only when technology will be ready. Going and changing your smartphone battery every 5 months doesn't sound too convenient, even if they are $50. So for now, they're more of.... experimenting.

                                        jayDAWG, 28 Feb 2023Samsung and Apple have been leaders in the phone industry f... moreYour battery anxiety levels seems high. It's understandable for slow battery charging fanboys it's a tough pills to swallow

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