One of the more eye-catching upgrades offered on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Galaxy S22 Plus is 45W charging, which sounds like a big boost on the 25W of the Samsung Galaxy S21 range. But if you were hoping that would mean almost twice as fast charging then you’re seemingly going to be out of luck.
GSMArena has tested the phones with three chargers – a 25W Samsung charger, a 45W Samsung charger, and a 65W third-party charger, and found that the charging speeds are roughly the same with all of them.
A full charge of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with the 25W charger for example took 64 minutes, and with the 45W one it took 59 minutes. So the move to 45W saved just 5 minutes. The 65W charger split the difference at 62 minutes.
The difference when charging the Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus was even smaller, with the 25W charger taking 62 minutes, while the 45W one took 61 minutes – so just a 1-minute difference.
Partial charges tell a similar story. Juice up the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra for 30 minutes from a flat battery and it will reach 61% with a 25W charger according to these tests, while the 45W charger actually performed marginally worse at 60%, with the 65W one managing 65%. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus hit 62% in the same time with the 25W charger and 64% with the 45W one.
So in general it seems that using a 45W charger will power these phones up faster, but only by a few minutes at most. That’s all the more disappointing when you consider that plenty of rival phones offer much higher power charging than Samsung even claimed to, with 80W on the OnePlus 10 Pro and 120W from the Xiaomi 12 Pro for example.
It’s not entirely clear why Samsung’s 45W charging is seemingly underperforming so much, or whether perhaps a software update could improve matters, but it’s disappointing to see.
Still, given that you don’t get a charger in the box, this does mean that there’s no need to rush out and buy a 45W one, when a 25W one will seemingly do the job almost as well.
Analysis: the opposite of Apple
This is in some ways the opposite of what we found with the iPhone 13 Pro Max , as while Samsung seems to be advertising higher power charging than its phones can really achieve, Apple seemingly undersold the charging potential of its flagships.
Apple advertises 20W charging for every model in the iPhone 13 range, but tests have shown that with a higher power charger, you can get 23W out of the iPhone 13 Pro and 27W out of the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
That ultimately is still in line with what you’ll seemingly get from the Samsung Galaxy S22 range, but promising less and delivering more is always better than the opposite.
Manchester City vs Fulham live stream: how to watch FA Cup Fourth Round online and on TV from anywhere, team news
Pep Guardiola’s superstars welcome high-flying Championship side Fulham to the Etihad Stadium this afternoon in what looks set to be an entertaining FA Cup 4th round clash. While City are, well, City, Marco Silva’s side currently lead the second tier with a five point gap at the top of the table and will be full of confidence. Follow our guide for all the ways to watch a Manchester City vs Fulham live stream online and on TV, and watch this FA Cup tie for FREE in Australia on 10Play .
The team news is in and there'll be no let up for Fulham with a virtually full strength City taking the field. Goalkeeper Steffen is the only real change. Mahrez, Foden and Grealish lead the line.
The Cottagers have earned plenty of plaudits for their seemingly relentless attacking style this season which has seen Serbian striker Aleksandar Mitrovic bag 28 goals already this term. They will be looking for a journey that ends in their first ever FA Cup trophy.
City, on the other hand, are looking to win the FA Cup for the seventh time in their history having done so twice in the Abu Dhabi era in 2011 and 2019, and the Citizens certainly look like they're taking the tournament seriously this year. A near full strength team brushed aside Swindon 4-1 in the last round with Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, İlkay Gündoğan and youngster Cole Palmer all on target.
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Nikon confirms Z9 will get unique video feature dropped from DJI Ronin 4D
The Nikon Z9 is already a hugely impressive video camera, and it's on course to be a unique one thanks to a firmware update that'll bring support for the Apple ProRes Raw format – a feature DJI had to remove from the DJI Ronin 4D cinema camera before its recent launch.
When it launched the Z9 last October, Nikon promised that a future update would make its flagship the first mirrorless camera to support Apple ProRes Raw HQ, a codec that promises to combine the editing ease of Apple ProRes with the flexibility of raw video.
And now the camera giant has confirmed that, despite the recent news of the DJI Ronin 4D having to remove support for ProRes Raw, it's still planning to bring it to the Z9 in that update, which still doesn't have a release date. Nikon told YM Cinema "the future firmware update will allow for capture of 12-bit raw video formats. These formats include N-RAW (Nikon’s original RAW video format) as well as ProRes RAW HQ."
The reasons why DJI had to remove support for ProRes Raw from the Ronin 4D just before the camera started shipping still aren't clear, but it's likely to do with the codec's patent issues, which forced another manufacturer, Kinefinity, to remove internal support for ProRes Raw from its Mavo Edge camera.
The US company Red Digital Camera, which makes high-end pro video cameras like the Komodo, has a patent on compressed raw video formats, and this means that manufacturers who want to support codecs like Apple ProRes Raw on their cameras need to pay Red royalty fees for the privilege. Back in 2019, Apple tried to challenge Red's patent, but failed.
This all means that, despite Nikon's confidence about the Z9 supporting ProRes Raw HQ in the future, it's not impossible that there could be a last-minute change, like we saw with DJI and Kinefinity. For now, though, the Nikon Z9 remains one of the most powerful hybrid cameras you can buy – with or without that ProRes update.
Analysis: another string to the Z9's bow
The Apple ProRes format has been around for 15 years, and has become an industry standard for professional video editors, thanks to its support in the likes of Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. It was even recently added to a phone for the first time when Apple released the iPhone 13 Pro .
It's still pretty rare to see cameras support the internal recording of ProRes, though, and in particular the ProRes Raw format. This is partly because the files are pretty huge, making it a high-end feature for pros only, but also due to the patent issues that Kinefinity, and likely DJI, ran into.
It's more common for cameras to support the external recording of Apple ProRes via recorders from the likes of Atomos, which made a licensing agreement with Red back in 2019 for the support of compressed raw formats including ProRes Raw.
Pro video shooters would be keen on a camera with internal support for ProRes Raw, though, because it could remove the need to use external recorders like an Atomos Ninja V in their workflows.
Whether the Nikon Z9 will become the first mirrorless camera to support ProRes Raw internally remains to be seen, but for now the company is confident that it will be. And that could prove to be a bonus for the Z9 over its rivals, as professional photographers are increasingly being asked to shoot a mix of stills and videos.