OPPO Unveils Super VOOC Battery Tech

This means the ASAP Dash itself can be charged rapidly, but it still take your phone the same amount of time to fully charge.

OPPO will soon bring this technology in its upcoming devices and it has gone for the mass-production. While their efforts are highly commendable, it is high time that smartphone batteries got better, and not bigger.

Oppo says it has a new technology that can charge a smartphone in just 15 minutes flat. For real. We’re talking 0-100% in 15 minutes. Original VOOC Flash Charge revolutionized charging by giving users 2 hours of talk after just 5 minutes of charging. Qualcomm and MTK followed OPPO with their own fast-charging technologies: Quick Charge and Pump Express, respectively. But fast charging technology like Super VOOC provides another option: don’t worry if your phone battery doesn’t always make it through the day, because it only takes a few minutes to recharge.

The VOOC super charge, still in an experimental technology can use either MicroUSB or USB Type-C to achieve this. This is why Oppo touts its tech as capable of pixel-level image stabilization. “We all use smartphones more and more, we all want longer lasting batteries”. And with it, charging times are getting longer and longer. Both Super VOOC and the Smart Sensor are at prototype stage, but the intention is to have both inside an Oppo phone you can buy before the end of the year. The new technology is advanced and of potential use for many. “VOOC Flash Charge however, offers an alternative”. The company has already shipped the first generation of their quick-charging tech. Smartphone companies realise that, and in the past couple of years, they have adopted various fast charging technologies, including Qualcomm’s Quick Charge, to charge phones faster. VOOC Flash Charge’s innovations led it to win 8 science and technology media awards internationally. Reducing the size of the original by half, VOOC Mini Power Adapter was introduced with the launch of the N3 and R5. It uses a voltage less than 5V and dynamically regulates the current.

VOOC stays within standard voltage levels for smartphone charging, ensuring the utmost safety, stability and device sustainability.

There remains some scepticism over whether it’s possible to safely charge a battery rapidly without damaging its life span. Oppo claims its method of regulating the temperature with a low voltage charge prevents this from happening. The actual charging time may vary depending on the phone, processor, power usage, temperature and power supply. This means a loss of energy and a lowered charging efficiency of about 85%.