TL;DR
- Android 15 is preparing to tweak the threshold that determines whether a charger is seen as fast, from a measly 7.5W to a more reasonable 20W.
- The operating system has long considered any charging speeds of at least 7.5W to be fast, which is far, far below what actual fast chargers can deliver nowadays.
- The change isn’t live yet in the latest Android 15 beta, though, so chargers that deliver 7.5W of power will still be seen as fast on Pixels.
Android is catering to the general public. The average user would easily understand fast, slow and normal. 20w, 68w, 5w not so much. But, I agree not having to use apps or 3rd party cables just to see the charging watts would be great. Even a Dev flag to enable the feature would be cool.
That’s ridiculous. People have been buying light bulbs based on Watts for around a century and understand that higher W means brighter and more power.
Bad example. People are still confused with light bulbs. That’s why they still say the equivalent wattage to incandescent bulbs.
Bigger number go faster
You make it sound like a joke but that’s literally all it takes here.
Fast, normal, and slow are not clear either, I think. We see here that the “fast” term needs to evolve because it probably feels pretty slow now. Wattages are pretty clear reference points when users come to understand what they mean, especially over time.
Expecting the average user to understand numbers is a high expectation
You could just show it as a percentage of max its trying to draw be default and show actual watts under a developer toggle