TL;DR

  • Android 15 is preparing to tweak the threshold that determines whether a charger is seen as fast, from a measly 7.5W to a more reasonable 20W.
  • The operating system has long considered any charging speeds of at least 7.5W to be fast, which is far, far below what actual fast chargers can deliver nowadays.
  • The change isn’t live yet in the latest Android 15 beta, though, so chargers that deliver 7.5W of power will still be seen as fast on Pixels.
  • veroxii
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    5 months ago

    That’s ridiculous. People have been buying light bulbs based on Watts for around a century and understand that higher W means brighter and more power.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Bad example. People are still confused with light bulbs. That’s why they still say the equivalent wattage to incandescent bulbs.