Realme's GT 7 Pro is now one of the world's longest-lasting flagship Android smartphones thanks to its new Titan Battery. Its successor is now believed to surpass it in this regard, however. The OEM is reportedly evaluating several new batteries for this device, each bigger than the last. Then again, Realme's final choice might imply some potentially crucial drawbacks for the "GT 8 Pro".

According to veteran leaker Digital Chat Station, Realme is currently mulling an upgrade to a 7,000mAh battery for the GT 8 Pro, even if the change would extend its estimated 120W charging time to 42 minutes.

That’s not all, though: the 8 Pro might get an even better 7,500mAh spec - although it has to use slightly slower 100W SuperVOOC charging instead, and, thus, take up to 55 minutes to go from 0 to 100%.

Alternatively, the GT 8 Pro could really stand out with a rated capacity of no less than 8,000mAh. However, again, that upgrade allegedly hampers its charging speed and brings it down to 80W, leaving the smartphone having to charge for up to 70 minutes at a time

However, becoming known for these super-augmented capacities (presumably based on up-to-date silicon-carbon anode technology like that of the current Titan Battery) might come with the same disadvantage the GT 7 Pro has against its Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered rivals the OnePlus 13 and Xiaomi 15 Pro. They support wireless charging while their Realme counterpart does not.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Ah is a measure of Coulombs or charge (A × h = C/s × hr × 3600s/hr = C). Wh is a measure of Joules or energy (W × h = J/s × hr × 3600s/hr = J).

    As an electrical engineer, personally Joules would make sense in an idealistic way to describe how much energy batteries store because that’s what they do, but the whole Ah/Wh framework simplifies calculations and makes it so you only really need to multiply, never divide.

    I never really understood the focus on Amps as your primary unit to describe load on a system. It seems like NASA used to describe things this way when designing rockets/spaceships/landers for outer space/Moon missions. I remember listening to a podcast where NASA would budget their systems in terms of Amps, where you only had so much overhead in Amps.

    Growing up as an EE in school and industry, Watts (and Volt-Amperes) is obviously the primary choice of metric, whether working in DC or AC.

    So yeah I agree with you lol