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As someone who has mostly had android phones (but not now), I watched the wireless charging thing unfold in a hilarious way. A bunch of android phones had wire
by Nursie 6y ago
As someone who has mostly had android phones (but not now), I watched the wireless charging thing unfold in a hilarious way.
A bunch of android phones had wireless charging years ago, including one of the nexus devices IIRC. Great! I'll buy a couple of wireless charging pucks and use them. No more flakey USB ports that give up before the phone does.
Apple didn't pick it up.
Android phones all dropped the feature.
Apple picked it up, hyped it, rolled it out.
Android phones started appearing with it again.
It's like Apple has to lead the way, and even useful features can't survive in the android ecosystem without Apple's blessing.
- myspy 6y agoAfaik Samsung phones had wireless charging since 2016 and kept that, didn't they? I'm an iPhone guy, but my colleagues were using wireless chargers around that time.
- Nursie 6y agoInteresting ... looking up the specs the site I use tells me that was "market dependent", I wonder if that has impacted my experience. The motorola Nexus 6 had Qi charging in 2014, then that manufacturer seemed to back away from it. Huawei only picked the feature up in 2019 AFAICT, my P20 pro didn't have it. But yes, it does look like the galaxy phones have had it all along. I wonder why I discounted those?