Realme releases smartphone in China that can charge at 240W – Tablets and phones – News

I’m also curious about battery capacity claims. EVs also don’t like frequent fast charging, where this affects the maximum driving range with a full battery.

I think I’m a “boomer” when it comes to smartphones. My first smartphone was the Nokia N95 (8 GB), I think about 15 years ago. At that time there was real progress and a new device was often much better. Now progress seems to be becoming more and more marginal and I see more and more useless or negative developments.

The N95 used Symbian, then I bought the Nokia N900, with Maemo. Besides an >80% increase in processor frequency and doubling in working memory, Maemo offered a lot more compared to Symbian. It literally worked more like a computer, so you could get root access in a terminal and customize everything to your heart’s content. I was even able to overclock the processor, from 600MHz to >900MHz (even well above GHz). A physical keyboard, even an FM transmitter.

Then I bought the Galaxy S3, in the end mainly a disappointment due to Android (update policy). Now there are almost no physical keyboards, Android and iOS limit you very much, in many ways. 3.5mm connections have disappeared, but for the rest, few things have really improved in the past 5 years. At most cameras, whether or not supported by software improvements.

And this again: in those little 15 years of using smartphones, I charge them at night. I’m now using a Galaxy S20FE that can last a day or three with low fuel consumption, and if that doesn’t work, it’s because something in the background is draining the thing, which almost never happens. Anyway, it’s great that it’s possible, although I would literally 50 times prefer to see more devices with a physical keyboard again than this. Because I’ve been using a device without a physical keyboard for about 10 years now, and I never get used to it.