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Sophie Law & Dayna McAlpine

Mobile phone users could charge handset in nine minutes with brand new battery

You could soon be able to fully charge their handset in just nine minutes due to a new kind of battery power coming soon.

The new technology will make phones absorb charge rapidly - with full charge achieved in just nine minutes - without causing damage to the batteries themselves.

The new battery tech will be in devices by the summer, The Mirror reports.

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Chinese phone maker Oppo, the fourth biggest firm globally, is behind the latest innovation and the firm is growing rapidly in the UK along with sub brands OnePlus, Realme and Vivo.

Oppo demonstrated its SuperVooc charging technique using 240 watts of power, showing a battery going from one per cent to 100 percent in just nine minutes - a fraction of the time of traditional phone batteries.

Most phones, including iPhones and Samsungs, can only take in around ten to 30 watts, since having too much power going into their batteries damages them.

Many firms have been held back over batteries overheating, which is dangerous as well as damaging devices.

Neil Monger, Oppo's UK product manager, told the Mail on Sunday: "It's not just about speed - it is also about doing it in a way that is safe for our customers.

"For example, if you just try to put more power into a battery without the relevant safeguards, it may cause longer term battery damage that causes it to degrade quicker over time.

"We test and test to avoid that."

He added: "If someone is keeping a phone for two or three years, they need to know the battery will last.

"A good battery will retain 80 per cent of its capacity after 800 charges. Ours do that after 1,600."

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