Redmi introduces 300W fast charging which fills a phone battery in 5 minutes

Redmi introduced 300W fast-charging know-how simply 4 months after being the primary model to surpass the 200W threshold. The Xiaomi subsidiary revealed a phone can cost from 0 to 100% in beneath 5 minutes, and later adopted with a video, shedding extra particulars on the know-how.

The model used a modified Redmi Note 12 Discovery smartphone with a 4,100 mAh battery (the unique model has a twin 4,300 mAh cell) in a managed atmosphere. It took 2 minutes 11 seconds for the gadget to succeed in 50%, and simply shy of 5 minutes the battery was at 100%.

Interestingly sufficient, even when the video comes straight from Redmi’s Weibo account, the 300W declare falls simply brief. The smartphone reaches 290W for about three seconds earlier than returning to much less highly effective (however nonetheless mightly spectacular) charging charges – 300W is the theoretical max the charger and the battery can attain, however the gadget is capping out for security causes.

The adapter itself comes with Double GaN know-how and has “more than 50 safety protections” however nonetheless retains a small dimension, Redmi mentioned. What the Xiaomi model didn’t say is once we’ll see an precise smartphone with the know-how hit the open market.

Source (in Chinese) | Via