Wireless charging is a gimmick like 3D TV was. There's only one use case, and it's car use. But it doesn't need to be fast. In every other case it's worse than cable in every aspect
Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones
MurrayL@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Non-magnetically-aligned wireless chargers are far worse than fast charging.
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 hours ago
0x0@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
sure grandpa
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 hours ago
You're so cool. You can just throw your phone at charging plate to cook itself, while you can't use it. But it looks cool. Cool tech for cool people.
realitista@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
It makes my wife considerably less pissed off when I come to bed late and am not fumbling with cables, so it’s a win for me.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
A phone with wireless charging is a bit niche, but if only all my little devices had wireless charging; earbuds, vape, tablet, controller, remote, etc. I’d set a charging mat in the middle of the coffee table and have all my devices just be charged and ready to go. Now it’s just a mess of wires, with the only thing I keep glued to my hand featuring wireless charging!?
chocrates@piefed.world 11 hours ago
I'm hoping for ranged wireless charging. Everything is always charged when Im inside.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Just live in a microwave. Problem solved!
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 9 hours ago
Not doable without some very expensive addons to your house - like IR charging from ceiling
Everything is always charged when Im inside.
That's living in microwave, I'd say its not going to ever happen
warm@kbin.earth 10 hours ago
Wireless charging sucks. It costs significantly more energy to charge the same battery to full.
iopq@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Your phone doesn’t have that much energy stored in it. 5 watt hours or so? Now consider the energy cost of making usb-c cords
warm@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
The charging pad itself probably requires a USB-C cable itself? It takes much more materials to make them than a cable...
sexy_peach@feddit.org 12 hours ago
yup, the chinese brand have it right. Fast charging is amazing, just put the phone on charge for like 10-20 minutes and you can forget about your battery for another day. It’s great.
mark@programming.dev 11 hours ago
The Chinese have it right with the food too. Love me egg foo yung
tempest@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I have a one plus phone.
The super vook charging works very well. It feels like less than 10 minutes to go from 10 to 80 percent.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 8 hours ago
Magnetic portable battery packs are fantastic too.
KingOfSuede@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
[citation needed]
warm@kbin.earth 9 hours ago
https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience
It's true, but wireless charging is still inefficient and should be avoided.
iopq@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s literally a few watt hours. Not kilowatt hours, watt hours. I pay $0.08 per kwh, so after a few years of wireless charging I might pay $1 more
But the USB-C cord might break in less than that time and cost more. Manufacturing cords is never going to be green, but electricity can be made renewable
warm@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
The charging pad might also break and they require cables themselves, plus all the materials to make the charging pad, plus every phone has to support wireless, which is even more materials. I've never broken a USB-C cable, that's a user issue, you are either being way too aggressive with them, buying low quality ones, or both.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Far worse at what? Wasting energy? That isn’t what the video is testing.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
At killing batteries faster - the wasted energy creates heat, which degrades the battery.
chocrates@piefed.world 11 hours ago
That makes sense but has it actually been tested?
Anivia@feddit.org 11 hours ago
But keep in mind the phone will throttle charging speeds when it gets warm, so the battery doesn’t end up getting much warmer, it just takes forever to get a full charge (especially when using a thick case that puts further space between the charging coils and also acts as thermal insulation, thus reduces the phones ability to cool down)
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
It is still keeping the battery warmer which degrades it faster regardless if its being charged or not.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
They tested that too, actually. Heat, I mean. It’s in a different one of the channels videos. It’s easy to find, since the channel only has like 10 videos and only a few are about phones .