Aukey Hit the Quick Charge 3.0 Ground Running

On September 15, Qualcomm announced Quick Charge 3.0 would be coming alongside the Snapdragon 820, 620, 618, 617 and 430 next year. They stated that with QC 3.0 you can expect to charge “a typical” devices from zero to 80% in about 35 minutes. Now Aukey has released their first officially compatible charger with the technology.

These chargers cannot of course charge devices without QC3.0 tech to their maximum potential, however, can offer a more granular range of voltages in 200mV increments from 3.6V to 20V. This is designed to allow the phone to request the correct voltage to reach the desired charge current, this should result in lower voltage losses, improved efficiency, and an overall increase in thermal performance. QC 3.0 technology and chargers are backwards compatible and work with both micro and USB type C.

The chargers themselves (featured right) are of solid build quality and charged a QC2.0 device from 0 – 80% just 2 minutes faster than the OEM charger provided which could be down to any number of factors. It is worth noting that due to the speed with which they have had the chips changed and shipped they for the time being will be shipping with the labels on stickers as opposed to the final printed versions which should start appearing shortly.

Are you looking forward to QC 3.0? leave a comment below!

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TELUS Says Android 6.0 OTA Update Starts on October 5th

TELUS recently updated their software update schedule page for a handful of Android devices. In this list, we can see the Nexus 5 with the Nexus 6 and when they believe the Android 6.0 OTA update will go out. These dates can always be delayed but as of right now, the second largest wireless carrier in Canada believes Marshmallow updates will go out on October 5th.

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Google Updates the Technology Behind Voice Search

Back in 2012, Google started using Deep Neural Networks (DNN) as the core technology behind their voice search service. In an announcement made today, Google seems to be enhancing their neural network models with Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) as well as sequence discriminative training techniques. This change will allow Google Voice Search to be faster and more accurate than ever before.

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