I’ve never had a phone that supports wireless charging, never really saw the appeal of it, and the people I know who has a phone that supports it don’t even bother to buy a wireless charger. So I’m really curious since it seems to be on almost every phone these days, even budget ones. People who use wireless charging, what do you like about it? Is it actually that convenient over plugging in? Do you use the phone while it’s charging?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I used to have a phone a few years ago with wireless charging and personally found no real use for it.

    Thing is, you need a spot for the charging pad where you’ll regularly put down your phone. That’s pretty much only ever gonna be the case, if you’re glued to your desk for your day job.
    Ideally, you do still need to get up every few minutes, though, so that unplugging and re-plugging your phone actually becomes annoying.

    Or I guess, it’s also cool, if you get annoyed by using your phone with the wire plugged in and you often just quickly pick up your phone to answer text messages.

    Otherwise, I doubt it makes up for the annoyances of wireless charging, which are:

    • Always have to put your phone down in (relatively precisely) the same spot.
    • Charging is slow.
    • Can’t really use your phone if you really do need it to be charged, because then you shouldn’t pick it up from the charging pad and you may push it off of the correct charging position when you tap the screen.

    I’m guessing, so many phones have it despite that, because as far as I’m aware, it just requires some copper wire rolled up to a coil in the back of the phone, so it’s presumably quite cheap to include.