Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?

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• danhab99@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe a bit of an edge case but I use a wallet case and I still carry a credit card. Wireless chargers have cooked my credit card a few times… and nfc Google pay doesn’t always work.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If someone claims to care about the climate, then using wireless charging makes them kind of a hypocrite. I asked ChatGPT to do some back-of-the-envelope math - so take these numbers with a grain of salt - but if everyone in the world switched to wireless charging, it would increase global energy consumption by around 12 TWh per year. That’s roughly equivalent to the total power usage of a small country like Iceland.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, I never considered the inefficiency to be that bad

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.

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• DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t want to bother with a cable at night.

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s very useful in sealed devices (smart watches, ear phones). Much better than pogo pins on your skin; whatever metal they pick, someone is going to be allergic. Things like active pencils (Apple Pencil, but als the Windows open standard ones) also make a lot of sense to charge like that.

  I also use a wireless charging stand for my phone. Most phone stands have an opening for a cable, but for some reason that opening is always at just the wrong space, or not right for the cable. K They’re also useful when using your phone for navigation in your car. I find a cable sticking from the bottom of my phone quite a handful to manage, especially as the USB ports are all so close to my gear shifter.

  For those still sporting lightning iPhones, it also provides a universal charging option.

  Oh, and then there’s the edge case of “I want to plug something into my phone and also charge it”. Tiny flash drives, 3.5mm converters, you name it. Most phones only have one USB port, so using it for anything but charging usually means not being able to charge unless you go wireless.

  Still, wired is the way to to moet of the times. Wireless is just a nice backup, and maybe a fun gimmick in certain furniture.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Universal charging is a good point if you have a bunch of stuff that can be wirelessly charged

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• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My desk wireless charger is magnetic, and my keyboard is wireless and can be switched between devices. So I can switch to my phone and bang out a message on my keyboard while my phone is held up comfortably.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When my mom finally ditched her land line and ported the number to a smart phone, getting a wireless charger that propped the phone up was a nice way to set up a sort of designated place to keep the phone (where the landline phone had been) so that there’s less chance she misplaces the phone or forgets to charge it.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can also keep a wired charger in the same place but it charges faster

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If charging speed were your top priority, sure. She doesn’t use her phone hardly at all so the battery rarely gets depleted much, therefore how quickly it charges isn’t really that important. Not having to mess with a wire makes it more convenient to grab and go when she does need it, and more convenient to put it back when done. And no risk of damaging the USB port.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bonus: the landline was already wired so just don’t unplug it ever and use it like before.

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• Nightwish76@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, to prevent the charging port becoming faulty?

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have one scenario where it’s useful. When in the car and entering a parking lot and you have to scan a qr/bar code on your phone, you can easily pick it up and get it out the window. That said, wireless charges on cars are terrible.

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That said, wireless chargers on cars are terrible.

    How so? I wired one into my center console and it works like a charm.

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve heard lots of complaints from people owning various brands that the built-in wireless charging pads are useless. Regularly cut off, phones don’t stay in place, etc. These are for the regular Toyotas, Hondas, etc., not the high end models.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a 6.5 foot cable for the car so I can yoyo that bitch out the window if I wanted to and have it still charging at high rate at all times

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