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Charging power and speeds are consistently contentious topics. From overzealous marketing and worries about damaged battery longevity to handsets that simply charge too slowly, it seems like few brands actually get charging just right.
Samsung is no different. Despite advertising 45W wired charging power since 2022’s flagships, it turned out to be a brief peak rather than a sustainable power level last year. The result has been handsets that mostly have solid battery life but whose cells refill barely any faster than they did when charging at the older power levels. Previous models still took about an hour or longer to charge, hardly that fast.