During the European launch event of the Oppo Reno8 series, Billy Zhang, vice president of overseas sales and services at Oppo, said that next year the company will remove the chargers from the retail packages of “different products”. However, the vice president did not specify which devices will receive the lightest packaging. Here is the full quote:
“We will take the charger out of the box in the next year for several products. We have a plan. It is not that easy for consumers to access it [SuperVOOC chargers], so we have to keep it in the box. However, as we are expanding our business operations, we are looking to take the chargers out of the box and put them in the store so that our users can purchase the chargers and continue to use them even when they update their devices. “
Many of Oppo’s competitors have already cut the charger from the package contents, but they typically use USB Power Delivery, so you can use a wide variety of first-party and third-party chargers. Plus, companies like Apple and Samsung in particular don’t push the limits when it comes to charging speeds, so a 45W or even 20W charger can be used with several generations of phones and you won’t miss out on much.
However, VOOC is proprietary and Oppo likes to increase the power level quite often which requires a new charger. But for now, we’ll take them at their word – they have a plan, and if that plan involves dropping the charger from entry-level and mid-range phones, it’ll probably be fine.
For example, Reno8 and Reno8 Pro support 80W SuperVOOC and this should be enough power for the foreseeable future. Additionally, Oppo phones support USB Power Delivery, albeit at a lower power level than the VOOC implementation (for example, the Reno8 duo only runs PD at 18W). This could change, of course. For reference, an 80W SuperVOOC charger retails for £ 40.
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