With the example of Apple at hand, manufacturers began to abandon chargers bundled with smartphones, not only flagships, but also devices in the middle segment. But even without this negative factor, the question arises, which charger to buy for your phone as a second, for example, for the office, how to choose it. The task looks simply and is solved completely without giving a damn in most cases. People often come to the store and ask to sell them a charger with a certain connector, without specifying the characteristics of such a charger. A slightly more advanced buyer can ask for fast charging without specifying what he means by these words. And then there are many collisions that lead to increased wear of the device, other troubles that are not obvious at first glance. Therefore, we will try to analyze all the pitfalls in one material,
Charger quality – fake or left charging
I always think that people should learn from their examples, but often this simply does not happen, since the problems that arise are attributed to anything other than what became their root cause. Remember the salesmen who walk in traffic between cars and offer chargers? They disappear and then reappear in our cities. The cost of chargers is low, the connector is standard, sometimes even cables are offered for every taste – microUSB, USB Type C, Lightning. Several connectors hang on one tail at once.
The low cost does not arise out of the blue, this is the cost of the cable, its characteristics are much worse than for original accessories. The level of quality of such accessories was easily seen more than once in a taxi, where drivers are required to offer charging wires to their passengers. They don’t want to spend money on high-quality chargers, the choice of accessories is not regulated by the service in any way, as a result, you may encounter a zoo of different cables.
Give me USB Type C – it’s standard! fast charging
Most modern devices support a usb to usb c cable connector, and when buying a charger, people do not bother with anything, but simply say that they have such a connector. Actually, there are different versions of the standard and you get different characteristics.
But who reads the description of the characteristics, especially since the manufacturer often avoids talking about them. Approximately the same reasoning goes regarding “fast charging”, although each company puts something different into this term. Samsung can see “fast charging”, “very fast charging”, “very fast charging second version”. The semantic load of the term is clear, but almost none of the users guess what is hidden behind these words.
It is important to understand that the charging speed depends both on the device itself and on the charger – this is a system in which both work in conjunction, otherwise it does not happen. And here we move on to another common mistake, which gives a bad result. Often users use several chargers, change “identical” wires between them. Ultimately, this can lead to exactly the same problem – slow charging. The wires are different, make sure that the same cables are used with the chargers. Lost a wire? Buy the same from the manufacturer, do not save.
Conclusion
I understand that often you don’t want to go into details, explore some “little things”. But when you have a rather expensive device, and you buy a penny charger for it and then complain that the battery does not hold after six months, then it might be worth considering what caused this. I hope that our short material will make you think and choose accessories that will maximize the life of your electronics.
