Originally published at: This wireless charging pad is on sale today for less than the price of a lightning cable | Boing Boing
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From the first answered question on that Amazon page:
This device is definitely not 7.5 watts for iOS devices after iOS 13.1. The device is capped at 5 watts because it uses the Basic Power Profile. It is a nice device aesthetically but the entire product page is outdated and essentially a lie for iOS devices. Do your research. Start here:
https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/products/8123
Then maybe go here for more information:
https://appletoolbox.com/ios-13-1-and-wireless-charging-speeds-check-the-charger-you-plan-on-buying/
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Is that remarkable? I bought a wireless charging pad a couple of years ago at TK Maxx (what we call TJ Maxx over here in the UK). It was £6. Like the previous poster said, it’s very slow, so definitely one for the bedside table and not the office desk, but way cheaper than an official Lightning cable.
Until they totally get rid of ports on phones, I am going to prefer that satisfying click and buzz that lets me know the phone is plugged in and it is going to stay that way. I dunno about you but stuff on my nightstand gets pushed around enough that I would never trust the phone not to get knocked off. Okay so you add magnets but then you get a new challenge of aligning the magnets and end up with something that is for all practical purposes plugged together, just with worse performance as efficiency.
At most 50% efficiency if you perfectly align the coils, I’ll stick to cables.
The charging pad is not wireless. It clearly has, unsurprisingly, a cable.
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