We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For years, the only way you could top up your phone was by connecting it to a USB cable running from a wall adapter. This proved to be quite ...

In the time it takes to read this article, a wired fast charger could take your phone from dead to 70%. A wireless charger might get you to 30%. And that's just the beginning of their differences. The ...

Google’s marketing makes the transition to Qi2 sound like a free upgrade. It isn’t. To actually get the experience Google ...

Wireless charging has become one of those small but satisfying conveniences of modern smartphones. You drop your device on a pad and watch the battery percentage climb without fiddling with cables or ...

Wireless charging is about to get a lot faster. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an open standards development group of more than 300 members who work together to ensure compatibility between ...

When Apple introduced the MagSafe charging system on the iPhone 12 series, it was a conveniently novel twist on the wireless charging tech. Thanks to the addition of magnets, users were no longer ...

Open the drawer where you keep your ‘stuff’. How many charging cables are in there? How many of them still… Read More ...

Struggling with unreliable USB-C ports? That's why wireless charging is my practical safeguard for smartphones.

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...