What is Wireless Charging
You’ve probably guessed from the name, wireless charging is a way of charging a device – such as a smartphone – without plugging a cable into it.
Wireless charging tends to come in two distinct flavors: it can be built into the actual phone, or it can be added to an existing device via a wireless charging case.
That current powers the battery, and because the electricity is created inside the device being charged there are no safety issues to consider or exciting sparks to look at or frighten your pets with.
Charging without wires is handy, and if you’ve ever suffered the curse of the busted charging cable – where the cable end frays from overuse – you’ll appreciate the increased longevity you’ll get from having a static charger pad instead of pulling cables in and out every day.
But that’s not the only reason to embrace wireless charging. If your phone is water- or dust-resistant, the necessary charging port covers can be fiddly and annoying; with wireless, you don’t have to touch them at all.
There are other benefits. The most common wireless charging standard, Qi, is available in all kinds of public places, – so if you’re in an airport or hotel you can often find a wireless charging pad.
That could reduce the amount of cables and international power adapters we make and discard, and if we put wireless charging into devices that currently use disposable batteries, we could reduce their environmental impact too. In the very long term, we might even have wireless charging pads for electric cars.
It’s much more dignified than trying to find a concealed plug socket and hoping you can get some juice before the housekeeping staff boot you off so they can plug in their cleaning equipment.
There’s another benefit. Because wireless charging is a universal standard, you could potentially use one set of chargers for a whole bunch of devices – phone, smartwatch, tablet and so on.
On that basis wireless charging is definitely worth having, especially when the cost of the wireless charging pad is so low: at the time of writing we have a buy 1, get 1 free promotion on our wireless chargers, which isn’t much money when you consider the convenience of parking your phone on a wireless charger instead of scrabbling around for cables.
The big benefits of wireless charging – one pad to charge every conceivable bit of kit you might own – are still frustratingly in the future, but for phones it’s here, it works and it’s great.
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Do you have a wireless charging phone? Did you shell out for the pad, or are you kicking it old school with cables? Let us know in the comments!