Late last month, Xiaomi once again took a lead in the smartphone market when it comes to very fast charging speed. The new hypercharge technology is able to charge a cellphone of 4,000 mAh for full in just 8 minutes by pushing 200W of power. Of course, the company will tout the security mechanism that will prevent cellphones from exploding but almost silent on one other side effect of the technology. Fortunately, Xiaomi is indeed clean and acknowledges that, at least for now, it will cut your cellphone battery life of 20% in just two years.
Even though it is an important component of our smartphone, the battery is always the most unreliable component because of their fluctuating composition. In addition to technical dangerous chemicals that allow them to really work, the battery can decrease significantly over time, depending on how you use or charge. The latter is very important in this case because the battery can decrease faster when they receive a higher wattage.
Xiaomi explained about Weibo that the 200W hypercharge technology could lead to batteries that ended with only above 80% of the original capacity after 800 filling cycles. That many cycles of filling and full use can add about two years. The 4,000 mAh battery, then, will only have a capacity of around 3,200 mAh after more or less normal or less normal use.
The company does explain that it is still in the standard of Chinese regulators that determine that the battery should not go below the capacity of 60% after 400 cycles. In that context, Xiaomi figures did look impressive but no one expected their cellphone battery to be reduced by half a year. Given how today people hold on to their cellphones longer, namely rather large sacrifices to make.
Xiaomi is not the only one who makes such sacrifice, of course, and that’s the expected side effects of all this fast charging technology. However, HyperCharge 200W, take the biggest part of the battery life and, unfortunately, this is a compromise that we continue to make with the condition of the battery technology that we currently have at this time.
