Wired is more efficient, you can pick it up and use it while charging, and the cable usually comes free with the phone. What is the point of wireless charging pads?
Don’t want to bother with a cable at night.
Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?
Submitted 2 months ago by ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s easier than putting a cord in.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 months ago
[deleted]ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Universal charging is a good point if you have a bunch of stuff that can be wirelessly charged
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can also keep a wired charger in the same place but it charges faster
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Bonus: the landline was already wired so just don’t unplug it ever and use it like before.
scytale@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
That said, wireless chargers on cars are terrible.
How so? I wired one into my center console and it works like a charm.
scytale@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 months 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
Nightwish76@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Yeah, to prevent the charging port becoming faulty?
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 months 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.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Huh, I never considered the inefficiency to be that bad
T156@lemmy.world 2 months 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.