Huawei, a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. As the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012, it is also known as the leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.
Recently, by using a made to order charger, the Chinese tech giant Huawei has revealed two of its prototype removable lithium-ion batteries which can be recharged in a matter of minutes.
The results showed that in a lower capacity battery, a 68% charged status was generated in a span of two minutes which is not big enough to run a smartphone. But with the battery that has the higher capacity, as the firm claims, was charged by 48% in five minutes and could provide up to 10 hours of talk time.
In this highly technological age, your current battery life is one of the significant limiting factors that need to be considered when it comes to the performance of most portable devices.
Just last March, one of Huawei's competitor, Samsung, has already revealed that on their handsets like the new Galaxy S6, the batteries could also be charged for 10 minutes but can be used for as long as four hours.
Moreover, earlier this year, Israeli start-up Storedot has also launched a fast-charging device with high hopes that eventually, it will be able to charge any smartphone battery in just one minute.
Currently, scientists are already studying the components of aluminium and graphene which will serve as an alternative battery to the traditional lithium-ion.
Huawei believes that in order to increase charging speeds without interfering to the battery's overall lifespan, heteroatoms - atoms which are not carbon or hydrogen -should be used. And, as reported by BBC News in July, Rick Osterloh, Motorola president, believes that everyone from the consumers group and all the manufacturers would benefit in this breakthrough in battery chemistry technology.
