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Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by popcar2@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TL;DW: Fast charging over 2 years only degraded the battery an extra 0.5%, even on extremely fast charging Android phones using 120W.

And with that, hopefully we can put this argument to rest.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

You say that like batteries don't need replaced every few years or that they didn't design the Samsung Note 8 phone that kept catching on fire.

Engineers get told to make the phone charge as quickly as possible, while still lasting 2 years. After that, the company with those engineers pretty much wants the battery to fail, so they can sell a new device.

The one thing I wanted to see from that video, was also just testing the batteries until they went below like 75% capacity. The initial degradation may start off similar for capacity, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way.