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Another way to look at it is that currently you can put a large number of devices (Android or iPhone) on a Qi compatible charging pad and it will charge. It's e
by stetrain 8y ago
Another way to look at it is that currently you can put a large number of devices (Android or iPhone) on a Qi compatible charging pad and it will charge. It's enough of a standard that it's being built into cars, which was almost never done with a fixed micro-USB or lightning dock.
All you really need to know is if the phone supports "wireless charging", and if it does it will charge on a Qi pad.
Yes there are variances in compatibility with different charging rates but the same was true of USB and it was never so universal across devices.
- tinus_hn 8y agoAbout six years ago quite a lot of cars had the wide 30 pin iPod charging/playing cables built-in.
- stetrain 8y agoYep, that's true. Since the Android + iPhone ecosystems came aroud most went to just having USB-A ports, and now some are doing USB-C. I know some Tesla models include a phone dock but the actual cable is interchangeable and just goes back to a normal USB-A port in the console.
- rconti 8y agoYup; our 3 came with 2 cables for the 2 phone slots; 1 USB-A to lightning and 1 USB-A to USB-C (wait, now I'm doubting myself.. maybe the 2nd cable is USB-A to micro-USB). Anyway, point is, it has one of each, so if you have 2 phones of the same type, you'll find an active community of folks trading one for the other.