Charging phones to a 100% can be time consuming and annoying and most smartphone users today consider it as a major issue. In a bid to lessen the time to charge phones, some resort to buying fast chargers or buy those "fast charging smartphones" they have seen advertised on TV. But in doing so, comes with the risk that the sellers or manufacturers haven't warned them about.

Yes there are risks and it involves reducing the lifespan or capacity of the smartphone. So in the end, either the user buys another new battery or buy a new smartphone that they think has a more durable battery.

This will not be a problem for long as Huawei has just unveiled that they have created a lithium-ion battery that is more durable and can be allowed to charge ten times faster than the usual batteries.

Last week, during the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan, Huawei unveiled the said batteries through a video presentation. The presentation includes a demonstration showing a 3,000 mAh battery that has an energy density of 620 Wh/L being recharged to 48 percent in five minutes using a specially designed charging cradle. It also showed a 600 mAh battery charging 68 percent in two minutes.

With this demonstration, Huawei said that it bonded heteroatoms to the molecule of graphite in anode that could be a catalyst in capturing and transmissioning the lithium through carbon bonds. These heteroatoms increase the charging speed of the batteries without affecting the battery life.

With this discovery, Huawei is optimistic that this could prove to be useful on a lot of things such as electric vehicles, wearable devices, mobile phones, and mobile power supplies. Huawei is also aiming to create a battery that can reach a full charge during a coffee break.

This development does indeed seem to be useful in the future once it is totally incorporated in their devices. It might even earn them a new set of consumers, if their competitors don't discover something similar or other ways to solve the battery dilemma. As of now, there is still no announcement when Huawei will be shipping the new quick charging batteries in their devices.

On the other hand, this development has just come a tad later than the latest from Samsung which is having fast wireless charging as a key feature for their phones.

Google however dropped their support for their Qi wireless charging in their new LG Nexus 5X and Huawei Nexus 6P after supporting it as far as their Nexus 4 smartphones. Google explained that the reason for this is because wireless charging requires having to add thickness to their devices which they are not eager to do. So instead they are just going to stick to their USB Type-C charging.