Comments on: Wireless Charging – Usual muddle https://www.radiofreemobile.com/wireless-charging-usual-muddle/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: tatilsever https://www.radiofreemobile.com/wireless-charging-usual-muddle/#comment-518 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:42:28 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=1185#comment-518 Not completely, despite the rise of micro-USB connector. Many vendors retained proprietary ways of asking chargers to increase the max current output to speed up the charging rate.

]]> By: windsorr https://www.radiofreemobile.com/wireless-charging-usual-muddle/#comment-517 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:01:26 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=1185#comment-517 The reason no one could really standardise on a connector was the desire to control the market for accesories. That seems to have gone away now with the micro-USB connector. Its not proving easy to standardise on a wireless charging standard either but almost ALL the phones and tablets out there are using Qi at the moment. I have soem hope!

]]> By: tatilsever https://www.radiofreemobile.com/wireless-charging-usual-muddle/#comment-516 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:39:03 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=1185#comment-516 As someone who uses his phone while charging fairly often, charging mats for phones sound suitable for only some circumstances, limiting their utility. I suspect they will be as popular as Bluetooth when the target market was replacing the printer cable.

When mats started coming out, one of the big advantages its proponents offered around here was interoperability. I never bought the line of reasoning that predicts phone companies who were unable to standardize on a charging connector would easily standardize on the mat and it seems past behavior has been a better predictor of future behavior yet again.

Charging electric cars wirelessly, on the other hand, I can see being popular very fast. It is a shame that the addressable market is so small at the moment.

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