HTC Thunderbolt Wireless Charger Priced by Verizon
Latest definition of a stooooopid consumer!
or can i charge the phone while it' in my pocket?
it' more like a DOCK pad!
This add some convenience as you can simply lay it down and pick it up at any time, without fiddling with a cable. If you lay your phone down on your desk at work, but pick it up often, are you as likely to plug it in to charge? I'm not. But if setting it down = charging, I'd be much more likely to charge during the day. Right now I only charge when I go to bed, so I'm not plugging/unplugging all day. This might change that.
The idea of this built into desks is neat, but I don't see it happening, except in cafés, etc.
Cars, however... I think it would be ext...
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I like my Mot Droid original since I can dock it at night into the charging station and have it look and work like a clock/alarm clock. I go thru the effort to plug the phone in every time I plan to drive in my car for more than 5 minutes so charging my phone at the office on a pad as described here would also be a nice plus to me also.
lovo said:
but doesnt the pad itself have to be connected?? so arent there wires??
That's like saying, "The cell site is connected to a fiber optic line, so it's not a wireless phone!"
Ridiculous, huh?
If it's wireless between the portable, end-user equipment and the next link in the system- it's wireless!
P.S. I'm an inductive power hater like you. I think these things are a stupid gimmick that will waste millions of dollars in evaporated energy for the sake of "not having a cord." Just make the blasted phones two millimeters thicker and put in bigger batteries! It's not that hard a problem to solve unless you're fixated on "skinny" like Apple is.
I wonder what Freud would have to ...
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im just saying id rather they try this out like on a desk tho the idea seems impossible at the moment im sure it can be done how awsome would it be if you could pick up a nightstand that plugged into a wall and of course a few years from now but imagin charging your phone laptop tv remotes all by laying them there thats the real future lol
Will a microUSB charger work for the NEXT phone you get, and the next one, and the next one after that or are you going to have to buy a new one for every phone?
T Bone said:
Will a microUSB charger work for the NEXT phone you get, and the next one, and the next one after that...
At least for the next five years, unless you buy an ApplePhone.
P.S. There are no less than three completely incompatible "standards" for wireless charging trying to make their groove in the marketplace right now. The Verizon charging pad could very easily got the way of the HD-DVD a year from now and force everyone to pay another $75 for the new Apple charging pad.
But the other problem is that charging by USB port is slower than charging from an electrical outlet.
The other problem is that if the little charging outlet on the side of your phone should break, and all you have is USB charger, you're basically stuck buying a new phone, but if you have a charging pad....no problem.
T Bone said:
Maybe, provided it doesn't change...
But the other problem is that charging by USB port is slower than charging from an electrical outlet.
Dude, do you have any idea how slow these charging pads are going to be? Even compared to a computer's USB port? I've not seen any scientific analysis done on them, but it looks like the Touchstone takes somewhere between two and five hours to charge a Palm Pre.
Why? Here's a quick question for you-
Which is a better electrical conductor:
Copper wires or Nitrogen gas (which represents over 70% of our atmosphere)?
Hint- Nitrogen gas is so inert and non-responsive to almost every chemical/electrical interaction that th...
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CellStudent said:
Here's a quick question for you-
Which is a better electrical conductor:
Copper wires or Nitrogen gas (which represents over 70% of our atmosphere)?
Copper wires, of course. But what does Nitrogen gas have to do with it? The pads should use a magnetic field and coil, which will work in a complete vacuum.
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