And why won't that burn out the battery quicker?

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Zero to Instant Combustion in 20 seconds

Charging speed isn't the be all and end all of battery degradation. It's a lot more complex than faster = hotter. There are many videos about this topic, but long story short, there's ways to counteract this like splitting the battery, having charge IC'S which strictly regulate voltage, having large amounts of battery cooling and so on.

You only need to look at most IPhones to know charge speed isn't everything. Many of their battery health's are in the 80's after 2 years, despite charging incredibly slowly. Why? Because most people charge it over night from 10-100%, usually on their bed or under their pillow, which is incredibly damaging to the battery.

You could write an entire essay about battery health, but higher wattage does not necessarily mean "explosive" or "damaging to the battery".

I'm just going to unplug my stove to charge my phone

this just... isnt an important metric for me.

Is it important for other people?

I want a phone that will last 16 hours. Not that I can drag a huge power brick around with me to top it off mid day.

Imagine 240W charging in the note 7

This smells fishy to me...

I guess that viable options for longer lasting batteries just aren't coming into the phone market. So the companies are doing the next best thing: Just refill the battery faster.

24 hour charge would be ideal but being able to fully charge in 9 minutes is still pretty insane.

This is unfortunately the (current) answer.

They cannot figure out a more commercially viable option. The tech is "better" now than it was, but nothing in terms of revolutionary change for small scale storage.

There's promising tech for large scale battery storage, which frees up some of the more rare resources for smaller batteries, but nothing really in the pipeline that I have seen. (Been at least paying attention to battery tech sence the 90's).

Fast charging hasn't been an issue for my OnePlus 7 Pro that I've been using for the last three and a half years. It uses the same VOOC charging that this phone from the article is using. VOOC works based on amperage, so the charging brick is the one getting all of the heat versus Qualcomm's method of hiking the voltage.

Yeah. I have a OnePlus 7 Pro that pretty much tops up in 20 minutes. It's not really all that bulky to throw in my travel/work bag and plug in for a few minutes.

Why is this important? I have an iPhone which is “slow” and I never wish I had a faster charging phone

One plus released a phone that charges in 13 minutes and that's fast enough for me

But can it run crysis without overheating?