Welcome To The Future Of Smartphones: Five Hours Of Battery Life, With Just Five Minutes Of Charging

Tech company Qualcomm has created a phone that promises five hours of phone battery, in five minutes.

Yeah, so apparently: Dreams do come true.

Qualcomm is a chip manufacturer and they produce the wirey-insides of nearly every top smartphone, including those of Samsung, HTC, LG and OnePlus.

According to Gizmodo, Qualcomm has announced a major upgrade to its quick charge technology. It's called Quick Charge 4, and supposedly it'll give you five hours of battery life after plugging and charging for five minutes.

There's literally nothing more frustrating than leaving home and realising your phone battery is in the dreaded red-zone. Like, you've already seen and ignored the terrible "less than 20 per cent" warning, and the following "less than 10 per cent" one.

Let's be honest, we've all dug ourselves into that hole before.

Qualcomm mention in an official statement that fast charging is consistently one of the most sought after features when consumers are shopping for a new smartphone. A study conducted by Qualcomm Technologies confirmed over 25 per cent of smartphone users think it takes too long to charge up.

Not only will Quick Charge 4 be faster and more efficient, it will also run at a cooler temperature. In light of all the recent battery-related-phone-combustion reports (ahem, Samsung), this is good news!

Qualcomm's Quick Charge 4 technology will be available in the first half of 2017. Forbes estimates it won't be long until we will see a few sneak peaks of which devices will be powered by it.

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