• DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Charging above a certain speed, does degrade the battery faster. Thinking that by slow charging your battery will last any noticeable time longer is where this all falls apart.

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      1 year ago

      Right, which is why the Pixel still charges slow af(25W). It’s really because it’s a single cell battery, the phones with really high charge speeds are multi cell arrays. Each cell can be individually charged at similar wattage to the pixel but with a much smaller cell size it appears to charge faster. I think the OnePlus is the one that is advertised to charge ridiculously fast, iirc it is a 4 cell array, which is why it can charge at 100W (25W per cell). Technically the same speed as the pixel but you’re simply charging 4 smaller batteries at once.

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        1 year ago

        The charge speed to degradation is actually based on the battery capacity. Single cell vs multi cell won’t make a difference there. That has to do more with the way the charger is setup.