With 80W fast charging, Realme’s rumored battery powerhouse could get fully charged in 70 minutes.
What you need to know
- Realme’s next flagship could pack an extra-large battery ranging from 7,000mAh to 8,000mAh.
- The current Realme GT 7 Pro features a 6,500mAh battery that’s already much larger than most flagships, but Realme is shooting for an even bigger one next year.
- According to leaker Digital Chat Station, there are three potential battery configurations being tested for Realme’s next phone.
Realme may not be a household name, but the brand is known for making Android smartphones with built-in high-capacity batteries. The latest Realme GT 7 Pro has a 6,500mah battery built in, and even the Realme 12 Pro Plus 5g has a respectable 5,000mah battery. The two phones also charge fast, at 120W and 67W respectively. As it turns out, Realme may want to improve its incredibly high-capacity, fast-charging technology on its next flagship product.
The company is reportedly testing three new variations of batteries, all with a larger capacity than the GT 7 Pro, according to leakerDigital Chat Station on Weibo(viaAndroid Authority). Per the tip, these are the characteristics of the three batteries being tested for Realme’s upcoming flagship phone:
- A 7,000mAh battery supporting 120W fast charging that can be charged to full in 42 minutes
- A 7,500mAh battery supporting 100W fast charging that can be charged to full in 55 minutes
- An 8,000mAh battery supporting 80W fast charging that can be charged to full in 70 minutes
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Realme has a few decisions to make for the battery that will power an upcoming flagship, which Digital Chat Station didn’t name specifically. It could be the Realme GT 8 Pro, and the phone could debut in 2025. However, as the leaked configurations show, the company will almost certainly be choosing between capacity and charge speed.
Evidently, the 8,000mAh battery rumored to be in consideration for a to-be-released Realme flagship has slow charging, relatively speaking. It can only charge at 80W speeds, resulting in a 70-minute charge time from 0% to 100%. That might not be such a bad thing, though. There could be less of a need to charge to full with a phone sporting an 8,000mAh capacity, with an overnight charge doing the trick for a day-plus of use.
When you compare the worst charging speeds of Realme’s purported battery options (80W, 70 min), they stack up quite nicely to the leading iPhone and Samsung Galaxy phones, which still have atrocious charging speeds. It’s clear that Realme would be padding its own lead in battery and charging tech if it released a smartphone with either 7,000mAh, 7,500 mAh, or 8,000mAh battery capacities.