Huawei plans to take on OnePlus' Dash charging tech with its own

The race to charge phone faster continues with smartphone companies taking the mandate on their own hands. After Dash charging by OnePlus and Oppo’s VOOC fast-charging technologies gained popularity, Chinese telecom veteran Huawei is now reportedly gearing up to come up with a their own fast-charging tech. According to Chinese website CNMO, Huawei is reportedly launching a new power adaptor with 10V/4A rating which would deliver a maximum output power of 40W.

Huawei has been shipping adaptors with a maximum power output of 22W for its flagship smartphones. With the upcoming 40W charger, Huawei smartphones may get charged up to 90% within 30 minutes depending on the capacity of the battery. As of now, Huawei claims that its flagship smartphones get fully charged in around 45 minutes. When compared to OnePlus’s Dash charging technology, OnePlus smartphones claim to take around one hour to get fully charged. Now, if Huawei launches its 40W adaptors, then we can expect their smartphones to get fully charged within a little over 30 minutes, which is way faster than OnePlus’s Dash charging.

On the other hand, Oppo’s Super VOOC charging technology claims that with five minutes of charging its flagship Find X can deliver up to two hours of talk-time. The company also adds that the smartphone can charge from 0 to 100% in 35 minutes. The Find X has a battery capacity of 3,730 mAh.

Talking about the Huawei’s 40 W adaptors, there is no official word as to when it would be launched. However, given the current trend in flagship smartphones, it seems like that brand would prefer to stick to slightly lesser battery capacity of around 3,500mAh and offer high-power output adaptors of up to 40W to charge them faster.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese brand Asus is using software capabilities like in the Zenfone 5z to control the power output as per requirement. It uses fast charging to charge the battery till 80% while the remaining 20% gets charged at lower power. Asus claims that this helps in extending the battery life of the smartphones.