While Oppo’s latest battery technology in the 125W flash charge may seem like a great deal if you want to charge you smartphone in a hurry – however, when taking into consideration the performance of the battery in the very long term : things don’t seem too encouraging.
Indeed the Chinese company noted that the battery capacity is “maintained” at 80% after 800 full charges and discharge cycles at 125W. In more simpler terms : you might actually end up losing one fifth of your battery capacity in just over two years if you actually drain your battery up every single day. While realistically the battery should actually last longer if indeed there is some charging left at the end of each day, there is quite the chance that you’ll end up noticing the effect. Indeed the more lighter users will take longer to reach the 800-cycle mark.
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In any case though, latest charging solution introduced by the Chinese company has the potential to degrade the battery as a whole more than anything that we’ve ever seen. While the company did in fact note that its 65W charging reduces the battery capacity within devices by about 91 percent over the course of the 800 cycles, while still being quite significant, it might not end up having a tangible effect during the useful lifespan of the devices.
Of course needless to say but this doesn’t really come as too big of a surprise. Higher power charging does indeed put added strain on a battery and Oppo had to make the decision of adopting a higher-quality battery design which could indeed handle the massive 12.5A of current that the 125W charger goes out to give. Of course there is then the suggestion that the existing fast-charge technology may have its limits and may that it may be reaching those limits.
