Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

• warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The charging pad itself probably requires a USB-C cable itself? It takes much more materials to make them than a cable...

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It doesn’t have plugging and unplugging cycles and doesn’t get bent in different directions, so it will basically never break unless you use the phone while holding the charging pad

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So I'm expected to hold a wireless charger as well? When I can just have a light cable plugged in, generating less heat and for less time? Unless you are buying really low quality cables, they shouldn't break and unless you are aggressive with it, the cable and the port will last years. When they eventually wear out, the cable is recyclable and depending on your phone, the USB-C port replaceable.

      Wireless charging is for toothbrushes.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nobody said you must get rid of wired charging.

        Over four years I’ve broken three or four cables. Every time it’s because the phone moved while plugged in. Whether it’s my error (forgetting it’s plugged in) or the cat knocking the phone down, nothing breaks when the phone falls down from the wireless charger

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