Wireless charging was supposed to be the future standard and the enabling technology for portless phones.
Will the Pixel 9 series be equipped with “high-speed wireless charging”?
Just another Android wireless charging fiasco
What’s another great feature of Pixel Stand Gen2? It doesn’t exist in the real world
All of that would be really great if it were actually true and it worked. However, to get the 23W speed, you need to use the Pixel Stand 2nd generation charger. Here comes the problem.
- Pixel Stand 2nd generation not available anywhere. In fact, it appears to be quietly being phased out all over the world.
Yay!
And did Google explain why this very important product was discontinued? Not a word.
Will there be a new one coming soon? No one knows.
You can still use wireless charging. pixel 9 Series phones can also be used, but they require a third-party charger, which gives you speeds up to 12W and is considerably slower.
To me this shows complete disrespect for the user. There was no apology or explanation.
Additionally, the specs page still says: pixel 9 supports “fast wireless charging” but doesn’t actually support it. That never happens.
Qi2 magnetic wireless charging (Android or…)
Just an empty promise?
This was supposed to be a game-changing development: Qi2!
This magical standard requires the latest android mobile phone It comes with a magnet so, similar to MagSafe, it can be snapped onto a wireless charger to ensure optimal efficiency.
This was announced almost two years ago on January 12, 2023, and at the time we wrote:
WPC (Wireless Power Consortium), the organization behind the Qi wireless charging standard, has announced its second revised edition, which aims to bring all the current major wireless standards under one umbrella. According to WPC, Qi2 is expected to be introduced later this year (2023). Qi2 chargers and phones are reportedly expected to arrive just in time for the 2023 holiday shopping boom.
But there’s no such thing as an empty promise, and that seems to be exactly what Qi2 is intended for, at least when it comes to phones that actually support Qi2.
Sure, we already have a lot of Qi2 wireless chargers, and one fruit company works perfectly fine, but… android mobile phone still!
Samsung’s fast wireless charging is… not fast at all
One company that can at least make and sell wireless chargers is Samsung.
However, it’s hard to get too excited about wireless charging for Samsung Galaxy phones. First, wireless charging speeds are 15 watts at most, and last year Samsung actually downgraded its phones, promising only 10 watts of wireless charging.
Well, if all goes well, the Galaxy S26 series will finally be like that too. Or something even beyond that. Hey, our kids will surely have cell phones with fast wireless charging capabilities, okay!
At least OnePlus should have a fast wireless charging feature…
right? right? !
Hey, mainstream android mobile phone It is obvious that there is no fast wireless charging feature.
This was one of the few new features compared to the previous OnePlus 11 model.
there is no way one plus 12 There’s something wrong with that, right?
Sorry to bring you bad news once again. one plus 12 It doesn’t actually support fast wireless charging. In theory, in a conceivable OnePlus world, that would be the case, but in the real world, that’s not the case.
On paper, one plus 12 It supports 50W wireless charging with AirVOOC technology, but as you might expect, you need a special OnePlus wireless charger to use it.
Can you guess if that charger is available at the OnePlus store in the US? Of course not. It’s vaporware.
I looked in several other countries just to be sure, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
conclusion
Among all the major android mobile phonetheir promises about fast wireless charging turned out to be completely false.
A phone might theoretically support high-speed communications, but it usually requires a special charger, and those chargers only exist in fantasy land, not in the real world. .
That’s not all android mobile phoneyou could find some fast wireless chargers by companies like Xiaomi in some markets, but they were expensive and very difficult to find.
Next year, in 2025, things may change, but there’s also a good chance they’ll stay the same.
