Is a 7500mAh battery becoming the standard? Is an 8000mAh new model on the way? These smartphone manufacturers are really pushing power bank sellers to their limits! Looking at these battery monsters, even I, an experienced user, am thrilled!
⚡ Battery Arms Race: The Mid-Range Market is Boiling
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Just after the New Year, the smartphone industry is buzzing. This morning, I came across a set of spy photos that nearly made me spit out my coffee—an engineering model on a factory assembly line, only 8.2mm thick yet packed with a 7800mAh battery! Just last year, we were celebrating 6000mAh, and now we’re jumping straight to 8000mAh; this growth rate is more exciting than rising fuel prices!
The iQOO Z9 Pro, equipped with a Snapdragon 7 Gen4 and a 7800mAh battery, is like a hybrid supercar in the realm of endurance, lasting 18 hours of continuous TikTok use with 15% battery remaining. What does this mean? It’s like leaving home with a full charge in the morning and not needing to find a charging cable after a whole day of phone use—truly a blessing for the lazy. Gamers are collectively ecstatic; previously, they worried about their phones running out of battery, now they worry about their own stamina!
The Redmi Note 13 Turbo is even more of a mobile power plant, featuring a Snapdragon 8s Gen3, 7500mAh battery, and 120W fast charging, allowing for a full charge in just 25 minutes while playing. This charging speed is faster than my instant noodles, it’s simply outrageous! As netizens aptly put it: power bank sellers are now overnight switching to selling phone cases, and that’s no exaggeration.
Honor is playing even more creatively, with the Dimensity 8400 paired with a 7600mAh Qinghai Lake battery Pro, still able to release 85% of its power in an environment of -10°C. It’s like a ‘northern off-road vehicle’ that doesn’t fear the cold; Northeastern users can now shoot vlogs in the snow for three hours without their phones freezing up. Finally, people in the Northeast don’t have to keep their phones close to their bodies for warmth!
💰 Price Slasher is Back
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Let’s take a look at this pricing, it’s even more ruthless than a 4S store clearing out inventory at year-end! Channel sources reveal that the 12GB+256GB version of the Redmi Note 13 Turbo might be priced as low as 1999 yuan, a price that would make last year’s users who spent three thousand on a 6000mAh flagship feel utterly devastated.
iQOO is even more insane, rumored to be giving away a cooling back clip worth 299 yuan, which is like a 4S store giving away full car window tinting, clearly saying, ‘Bro, go ahead and play, if it overheats, I’ll take the blame!’
The current mid-range market is a price war without gunpowder; when realme dropped the price of a 7000mAh phone to 1499 yuan last year, this revolution was destined to happen. Now, mid-range phones are collectively breaking the 7500mAh barrier, and digital bloggers are starting to calculate endurance in ‘days’: binge-watching for two days, navigating for 18 hours, standby for half a month… A product manager jokingly said, ‘Now, if a new phone doesn’t have 7000mAh, it’s embarrassing to hold a launch event.’
🔋 Battery Revolution: From ‘Range Anxiety’ to ‘Endurance Worries No More’
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The battery revolution is largely thanks to the commercialization of silicon-carbon anode technology. Just like the shift from fuel to electric vehicles, this technology has allowed smartphone battery energy density to soar. Test data shows that an engineering model equipped with a 7500mAh Jinsha River battery lasted through a 21-hour marathon test under continuous 5G screen-on conditions. If this were two years ago, it would have been a scene from a sci-fi movie!
Let’s take a look at this ‘arms race’ among several companies:
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Redmi Turbo4 Pro first to launch ‘nuclear bomb-level’ battery + Dimensity 9400 combination
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iQOO Z10 Turbo unveils a dual-cell 100W fast charging solution
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Honor X70 series test model has reached 7800mAh
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OPPO has engineering models with 8000mAh batteries
Even more exaggerated, supply chain sources indicate that a certain manufacturer is testing an 8000mAh module, with a thickness controlled at 8.3mm. It’s like stuffing a small generator into a phone without affecting its size—truly filled with black technology!
📱 Screen Competition: Can a Large Battery and Large Screen Still Be Thin?
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Don’t think that a large battery means the phone is as thick as a brick. Nowadays, these battery monsters also emphasize ‘both’: a large battery, a large screen, and not too thick.
The iQOO Neo11 series will feature a 2K flexible flat screen made of Samsung E7 material, with overall brightness exceeding 1600 nits, combined with LTPO 4.0 technology, reducing power consumption by 23%. OnePlus 13T is even more impressive, cramming a 6000mAh battery into a 6.3-inch small screen. This operation is like putting a V8 engine into a compact hatchback—powerful yet fuel-efficient!
The current 2000 yuan screen parameters have already surpassed those of flagship models from three years ago priced at 10,000 yuan. In the automotive world, this would be equivalent to a 200,000 yuan domestic car having configurations that exceed those of a 600,000 yuan luxury brand—this has truly been realized! No wonder some netizens joked, ‘I suggest smartphone manufacturers leave some room for the display industry.’
⚠️ Large Batteries Also Have ‘Small Drawbacks’
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That said, such a large battery capacity does come at a cost. Just like larger displacement cars consume more fuel, battery capacity is generally inversely proportional to charging power. It’s a bit challenging to quickly charge these ‘battery tanks.’
The 7000mAh + 100W fast charging solution from the Oujia series is probably already at its limit. Phones with built-in batteries of 7500mAh and above will likely have charging power capped at under 100 watts. Charging an 8000mAh battery will take at least 70 minutes.
However, looking at it from another angle, large batteries don’t need frequent charging; charging once a day is already a luxury. If a single charge can last two to three days, who cares about an extra 20 minutes of charging time?
If you really can’t accept it, small-screen and lightweight phones might suit you better. These two types of phones previously had the biggest drawback of small batteries, but now, with technological advancements, small-screen phones with 6000mAh batteries can easily be achieved. They have moderate battery capacity and can be paired with higher power fast charging, achieving the best of both worlds.
🚀 The Future is Here: Who Will Laugh Last?
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After seeing these parameters, I felt like I was at a power bank exhibition. When smartphone fast charging speeds exceed the time it takes to cook instant noodles, and extreme cold can’t stop the desire to shoot, the era of carrying power banks to find outlets is being shattered by 7500mAh battery monsters!
For consumers, this is undoubtedly the best of times; spending less money can get you configurations that last year’s flagships could only dream of. However, those with decision-making difficulties might suffer, as at the sweet spot of 2499 yuan, you want both a 2K screen and a 7500mAh battery, while also not wanting to give up on ultrasonic fingerprint recognition…
Supply chain news indicates that at least five heavyweight new products will be fiercely competing this summer:
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OnePlus Ace5S (Dimensity 9400++7500mAh)
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iQOO Neo10S Pro+ (2K E7 flat screen + dual-core 100W)
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Realme GT Neo6 Pro (Snapdragon 8 Gen3 leading version)
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Honor X60 GT (Qinghai Lake Battery 2.0)
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Red Magic Z50 (active cooling + physical gaming buttons)
A certain e-commerce platform executive revealed: ‘Now manufacturers are playing a game of horse racing, with three different blockbuster products possibly appearing in the same price segment.’
Spoiler alert: Supply chain sources have revealed that a certain manufacturer is testing an 8000mAh engineering model; this nuclear war has only just begun…
So the question arises, are you ready to welcome the super endurance of 8000mAh in this battery melee? Which manufacturer’s new model are you more looking forward to? Is it the cost-effective Redmi or the differentiation-focused Honor?
Wishing everyone a full charge every day, never dropping a bar, with worry-free endurance and great health!
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