The mobile phone package comes standard with a multi-port GaN charger, which is long overdue!

Finally, some mobile phone manufacturers have begun to give newly launched mobile phones a dual-port charger in the package.

In fact, it was the savior who did this earlier.

The Savior Pro e-sports mobile phone launched in 2020 comes with a dual C-port charger with a maximum power of 90W.

However, Lenovo’s reason for giving consumers free dual-port chargers is not to help multi-device users save money for additional chargers, but that the Savior Pro phone body has two USB Type-C. If the two interfaces are connected at the same time, the dual-cell fast charging power of up to 90W can be achieved, the so-called “superimposed fast charging”.

For a long time that followed, manufacturers tacitly forgot about the dual-port charger, and only the single-port charger was randomly equipped until vivo began to make changes.

Mobile phone manufacturers embrace dual-port chargers

The recently released vivo X Fold mobile phone comes with a dual-port GaN charger, and the specifications are quite high: using gallium nitride semiconductor technology, small size, single port up to 80W, support 65W PD fast charging, vivo is a good start head.

There is no need for me to say more about the benefits of mobile phone manufacturers sending dual-port chargers with the packaging: it can not only reduce consumers’ need for additional accessories, but also charge multiple ports without waste, and can also increase user stickiness and increase the number of two products of the same brand. consumption opportunity.

Some time ago, it was also reported that Apple will launch a dual-C port charger. It can be seen from the spy photos that this charger is not large, square, and the charging connector can be folded and stored, but Apple will be as early as 2020. It began to cancel the charging head included in the mobile phone package, so even if this product is finally mass-produced, it will not be included randomly.

Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vice president at the time, explained in an interview,

People already have earphones and charging heads at home, or even more than one, so eliminating the included headphones and charging heads is the right decision for environmental goals.

The first half of the sentence is true. As consumers have more and more electronic products, the number of charging devices increases, and many people use more than one charger. For this reason, Apple chooses to no longer give free chargers; Manufacturers led by vivo and Samsung have instead come with dual-port chargers. At least for those who only have two devices at home that need to be charged, they no longer need to purchase additional charging heads.

After Apple announced the cancellation of the policy of sending a charging head with a machine, many third-party accessory manufacturers followed up to launch charging devices more suitable for iPhone users, which brought fire to many brands. For example, the familiar 3C brand Anker, at the end of the year when the iPhone 12 was launched, Anker’s 20W charger was second only to Apple’s official single product sales on Amazon in the United States.

That year, the charging category accounted for 44% of Anker’s annual revenue.

In other words, if mobile phone manufacturers choose to randomly attach dual-port charging heads, it will more or less affect the sales of third-party accessories manufacturers, but similar popular behaviors will not develop too fast, and it may take a It will take two years for most manufacturers to accept this more environmentally friendly behavior.

Around charging, domestic brands have done a lot of innovations: wired/wireless fast charging, reverse wireless charging, and more.

The emergence of these functions, some out of user demand, some out of the product manager’s brain, but someone has to be the first person to eat crabs, in order to promote the advancement of technology, or to change the rules of the industry. At present, individual brands are taking the lead in implementing dual-port chargers, which is another innovation that consumers like to hear.

Thinking about it, the “involution” of domestic consumer electronics brands is so powerful and wide-ranging that it has actually greatly accelerated industrial innovation from the root.

I vaguely remember that starting in 2019, flagship mobile phones such as OnePlus 7 Pro and OPPO Reno Ace were the first to be equipped with 90Hz high refresh rate screens. The following year, high refresh rate screens became standard features of mid-to-high-end models. In other words, high refresh rate is more useful than 4K resolution. People’s voices for this feature are quite high, which has led to a consensus among the upstream and downstream industries. In the following two years, high refresh rate screens quickly became popular.

Mobile phone manufacturers are constantly innovating in the internal volume, but notebook manufacturers have always insisted on charging themselves, and it can even be said to be “eating the old without changing”.

In the future, major computer manufacturers will also start “involution”

With the increasing integration of motherboards, thinning has become the goal pursued by most notebook computer manufacturers in recent years, and even gaming laptops have begun to advocate lightweighting.

Driven by the lightweight movement, the world’s lightest and thinnest records are constantly being refreshed, but manufacturers are concerned about making computers lighter, but they forget to transform the power adapter together.

At present, many mainstream gaming laptops still use “stupid and thick” split adapters. The weight of the cable plus the transformer is at least one kilogram. It is difficult to accept what they say in the bag together with the laptop. “Lightweight”.

In addition, the styles of charging interfaces adopted by various companies are so “rich”, which is not a beautiful thing. If I forget to bring the power adapter with me before going out, the work of the day will be impossible. Because within four hours, my gamebook would shut down due to low battery, but I couldn’t pick up any charging cable around to charge it.

However, fortunately, many manufacturers have recently started charging new products with USB PD, such as ROG Magic 15, Savior R9000X and other products, they all use PD charging interfaces up to 100W, let us see in the near future , a chance to get rid of brick-old-fashioned adapters.

Last year, the USB-IF Standardization Association announced that the new PD 3.1 protocol will theoretically support a charging power of up to 240W, which means that some entry-level gaming notebooks in the future (with relatively low power consumption and low power supply performance requirements) will be able to charge by PD alone. Although the charging head may still be very large, at least the interface type has been unified, and there is a new possibility for emergency power supply.

Led by Apple, I see some signs of acceleration in this trend. As we all know, in the new MacBook Pro 14/16-inch version, Apple brought back the MagSafe interface, of which the 16-inch version can use a gallium nitride charger (C to MagSafe 3) with a maximum power of 140W and taste the PD 3.1 protocol header Good soup.

This charging head is still full of “apple flavor”, and the volume is not small, but it is also within the acceptable range. And it can output stably at a maximum of 28V/5A, easy to carry, and extremely fast to charge. Officials say that 50% of the MacBook can be charged in 30 minutes.

Even if it is plugged into the Thunderbolt 4 port, it can be recharged at a maximum power speed of 96W. A friend who just bought a MacBook Pro not long ago praised Apple’s new charging strategy. Now he can find it anytime after he forgets to bring the charger. The power supply equipment, the power anxiety often encountered in the past, is no longer coming to the door.

It is worth mentioning that the board members of USB-IF include Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Renesas Electronics and STMicroelectronics, which means that the PD 3.1 function mentioned above is not Apple’s patent, I prefer other manufacturers This feature can be launched as soon as possible, especially for game books.

Let mobile phone manufacturers come standard with multi-port GaN chargers and let computer manufacturers unify interfaces. It used to be a matter of multiple interests, but now it is a matter of cost. When global production capacity is tight, let’s give brands some time. With the joint promotion of the association and the market, the dawn is not far away.

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