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To help us provide you with free impartial advice, we may earn a commission if you buy through links on our site. Learn more Everyone appreciates great battery life in their phones but the matter of charging speed is a slightly trickier one. The biggest and most popular smartphone manufacturers in the world (Apple, Samsung, Google) don't seem to think that it's a particular priority.
However, the ability to juice your phone up in super-quick time is a massive advantage in our books. While it's true that most modern phones can last through a full day without forcing you to hunt out a wall socket – and the best phone battery life out there can see you comfortably through a second day – there are still plenty of everyday occasions where you need to splash and dash. On such occasions, the capacity to go from 'in the red' to 'green light on full media consumption' in a matter of minutes can be huge.
Many of the following phones are exceptional for a number of reasons but they win a place on this list for supporting rapid charging. Fastest charging phones: How we test We've tracked down the officially provided stats for many of the fastest-charging phones launched in the UK over the past 12 months. Where not available, we've timed the empty-to-full charging speeds ourselves, using the officially supplied charger or a suitable equivalent.
We've published the results in one easy-to-use graph, which you'll find below. You'll notice that popular brands like Samsung, Google and Apple are completely absent from this list –..
. Jon Mundy.
