The best phones today can do more than ever, with more numbers across a variety of specs and features, promising a better experience than before. There are devices with three, four, and even five cameras. Storage goes up to 1TB, RAM up to 16GB, displays are hitting 120Hz and beyond. While all these features are nice to have though, there’s one numerical trend in particular that I've been watching with great interest – the ever-increasing ceiling of fast charging.
Though rapid charging was once defined as 18W, 22W, or even 30W, many smartphones coming out now claim to be able to charge your phone as much as eight to ten times faster than the median of the numbers given above. It's a feature that's limited to Android phones for the moment, and it's one of the few new features I’ve seen in recent years that goes beyond gimmickry to be truly useful.
