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OnePlus Survey Conducted by The NPD Group Offers Insights About Americans' Smartphone Charging Habits; People Frustrated by Charging Times Among Other Findings

, /PRNewswire/ -- Global exertion marque OnePlus contiguous released the results of a proprietary user survey conducted by The NPD Group. The findings, based connected 1,000 U.S. respondents who purchased a smartphone successful the past 12 months, bespeak radical are frustrated with smartphone charging times and often charging their instrumentality aggregate times a day. In fact, 43% of respondents reported being astatine slightest somewhat frustrated with the clip it takes to afloat complaint their phone, and two-thirds reported charging their telephone astatine slightest doubly a day.

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"Many smartphone instrumentality manufacturers person removed charging units from their smartphone boxes and engineered a caller gross stream, each from income of their ain charging devices," said Robin Liu, CEO for OnePlus North America. "Rather than investing successful R&D to amended charging ratio and artillery life, starring instrumentality manufacturers person maintained the presumption quo portion burdening consumers with further costs."

Survey findings include:

Charging habits and interest:

How often: 69% of respondents study charging their smartphone astatine slightest doubly a day.
When: 64% of respondents accidental they complaint their telephone overnight, making it the astir fashionable charging time. Even so, much than one-third of respondents admit they are acrophobic that predominant oregon overnight charging whitethorn harm the smartphone battery.
Where: 93% of respondents complaint their phones astatine home, followed by 45% charging portion successful the car oregon connected nationalist transit, 32% portion astatine work, 15% portion retired doing activities (e.g. hiking, shopping, attending a concert, going to a restaurant, etc.), 14% portion astatine schoolhouse and 8% during flights and aerial travel.
Method: 88% of respondents reported utilizing a wired charger, followed by 46% for car chargers, 28% for wireless chargers, and 19% reported regularly utilizing a powerfulness bank.
Duration: 64% of respondents permission their telephone plugged successful to complaint for astatine slightest 40 minutes.
Charging Concerns: 63% of respondents study feeling acrophobic astir their smartphone artillery dying erstwhile they are 'out and about' without a spot to plug-in.
Fast Charging Interest: 97% of Americans study being astatine slightest a small funny successful a telephone that volition complaint successful little than 20 minutes.

"OnePlus believes successful providing smartphone users with accelerated charging and long-lasting artillery performance, consecutive retired of the box," said Robin Liu, CEO for OnePlus North America. "Our OnePlus 10T provides 125W wired charging successful North America and is capable to complaint the instrumentality from 1 to 100% successful conscionable 20 minutes."

Methodology

Survey highlights are from a proprietary user survey conducted for OnePlus by The NPD Group. The survey was fielded betwixt September 13th-20th, 2022 among 1,000 consumers who had purchased a smartphone priced $600+ successful the past 12 months.

For much information, delight sojourn oneplus.com/charging.

About OnePlus

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