Wireless charging is the epitome of the kind of innovation that is a solution in need a problem.
It’s slower to charge, finicky to position your phone correctly (and if you fail you wake up to a dead phone), and you can’t use it while it’s charging.
Unclear what the benefit is. Interoperability? USB-C gives us that. Saving time? But it takes longer to position your phone over the charger.
What am I missing? 🤔
@leaverou That said, I have heard that with the current generation of batteries, it’s better to run them lower before charging them rather than having them hover around 100% all the time.
That said, battery life in a phone has almost never gotten so bad that I was bothered by it before something else dramatic happened to make me get a new phone, and the few times I’ve had to replace a battery it was pretty simple and/or cheap to do — even in the modern era where no phones have user-replaceable batteries (😭).
As an aside — up until around 4-5 years ago, I always had replaceable batteries, so I also often didn’t use the USB port, I would charge the batteries by themselves and then swap them out when the one in the phone got too low.