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I never understood the use case for it. Not saying it’s not there, but I don’t get it. I can only see a few where it would even be usable at all, and even then they seem like a super rare situation.
One, to charge another phone that doesn’t have access to the right cable (fucking Apple just thought that was cool for a while I guess- total fucking morons-actual braindead) in which case I can only see it useful in desperate situations. But personally I don’t carry a second device around that would need it or be able to take advantage of it. I am just hearing in this thread that the Pixel Buds can do this which I hadn’t heard before, but lately I haven’t really used them for long periods anyway, so admittedly I’m not the target. I just don’t think the target is that big.
And I almost always have a charger somewhere accessible that would negate the point anyway.
But qi2 seems just marginally more convenient at best, but not really impactful. But plopping it the charger instead of fiddling to find the end of the cord and insert it into the phone, while potentially dealing with kids or pets or anything that makes it hard to take a second it would be a little more convenient.
But if the 2 choices, a little convenience far faaaaar outweighs a parlor trick. Am I missing something? The reverse charging (even while iPhones were all wireless charging) just seemed like a compensation for not being able to do that. And now it seems like they’re finally able to do it for whatever reason. So taking away the pity feature to give us the real deal is a good thing it seems for almost everybody.
I’m the end though, they really need to go back to chunkier phones that can just do everything rather than all these super skinny ones that you have to pick and choose what it will and won’t be able to do. Make it fatter and give us both (both = qi and reverse), and a headphone jack, and swappable batteries and extra SD slots, and swappable backplates that aren’t made of glass and breakable.
The last time I had a wireless chargeable phone was the Galaxy S3. And I’ve been on Nexus/Pixels since that device. And it wasn’t even that way, I used a 3rd party add-on to even get that. And it didn’t have magnets. Back in my day…
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I always found use when traveling to charge my phone and my earbuds with one plug. But yeah, I can just bring two wires and do the same thing.
A gimmick feature is an easy thing to toss in favor of Qi2.
Yea, I always thought of wireless charging as a bit gimmicky, but there’s absolutely no going back from qi2.
I used it once to charge my Pixel Buds and went “huh, that was neat, but inconvenient because now I have to keep my phone in one spot, can’t use it, and probably could just plug the buds into something nearby” then never used it again.
I loved using battery share but with how Google has gimped it on the 9 series (not allowed to use it when the phone is charging) and then killing it on the 10 is such a terrible way to go out. I hope they bring back battery share to later models.
I’ve used battery share a grand total of 1 time. It was because someone needed an iPhone charger and all I had was USB-C. I’ll admit it was a cool party trick, I can’t imagine this impacts too too many people though.
I’ve used it a handful of times. Out with friends at a bar who didn’t live in this city, It’s 1 or 2 am and their phone was about to die.
It’s neat, but annoying. Neither of us could use our phones and if they picked it up to check anything my phone would turn power sharing off and I’d have to turn it back on again. That happened like half a dozen times, and made using it such a pain in the ass.
I use it to charge my work phone in the field if I need to. I’ve also used it to charge my headphones or similar (also in the field). I always feel like there’s lots of use cases people miss because they don’t use a feature so they don’t care if other people do.
Exactly my experience. I had just got a Pixel 7. Travelling with a friend who had the iPhone with Apple proprietary charging port. I got to be like “look what I can do”.
Cool but mostly unnecessary.
One more here. I had actually had forgotten it was a thing when, of course, the apple user needed a charge but didn’t bring their cable.
This was 2 weeks ago. I have a pixel 6. That was the first time I used it.
I am considering upgrading early for Qi2 on the Pixel phones. Losing reverse wireless charging doesn’t effect that decision.
Boo!
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Nope. I personally think battery share is a better feature.
I’ve used that way more times than I’ve needed magnets for charging.
