Vivo makes it official: its 200W charging is real and its charging time is ridiculous

The smartphone industry has been fighting for the supremacy of fast charging for years now. They all have their own technology and the war of the watts has reached unimaginable heights. Vivo has just made its 200W fast charge official.

What customers have been demanding from the telephone sector for years can be summed up in one sentence: we want our smartphones not to run out of battery at the end of the day. Remember that in the middle of the last decade the autonomy of the big terminals became ridiculous.

To alleviate this problem, manufacturers began to make two changes. The first was to incorporate larger batteries. We went from the typical 2,500 mAh of a flagship to the 5,000 mAh that are becoming more and more popular in the sector.

The second change came from the charges. If the battery could not increase drastically, since the weight of the terminal cannot be very high and lithium has its limitations, what remained for the manufacturers was better the charging power of the chargers. That’s where fast charging came from.

After several years stuck at 15 and 33 W, where Apple and Samsung are still very comfortable, other companies have decided to take advantage of that gap in the market and launch true ultra-fast chargers. Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei… and now Vivo. Only the latter has 200 W.

Vivo explains that its 200W charging can charge a battery from 0% to 100% in just 10 minutes, which is a record to date. Of course, it only works with the company’s new iQOO 10 Pro gaming smartphone, which is only sold in the Asian market.

• Oppo Fast Charge 65W: 30 minutes from 0 to 100%
• Xiaomi Fast Charge 120W: 25 minutes from 0 to 100%
• Vivo Fast Charge 200W: 10 minutes from 0 to 100%

As they explain in the press release, in 2020 Vivo launched a market-first 120W ultra-fast charging battery with the iQOO 5 Pro. And now it has raised the bar with the iQOO 10 Pro, which almost doubles that mark.

We will have to see when we see this fast charge available in Spain, but there is a desire to test the numbers that Vivo offers in its press release. 10 minutes is a really impressive charging time.