Yeah, to prevent the charging port becoming faulty?
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When my mom finally ditched her land line and ported the number to a smart phone, getting a wireless charger that propped the phone up was a nice way to set up a sort of designated place to keep the phone (where the landline phone had been) so that there's less chance she misplaces the phone or forgets to charge it.
You can also keep a wired charger in the same place but it charges faster
Bonus: the landline was already wired so just don't unplug it ever and use it like before.
We did have wireless handsets back in the day…
I didn’t feel like typing that part.
And they had little docks to charge them (and transmit) but they also make docks for your phone.
Unplug the phone
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I have one scenario where it’s useful. When in the car and entering a parking lot and you have to scan a qr/bar code on your phone, you can easily pick it up and get it out the window. That said, wireless chargers on cars are terrible.
That said, wireless chargers on cars are terrible.
How so? I wired one into my center console and it works like a charm.
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I have a 6.5 foot cable for the car so I can yoyo that bitch out the window if I wanted to and have it still charging at high rate at all times
Just use wired. Wireless is a proof-of-concept technology that is just worse.
Like... image if wifi required you to put your phone directly on top of the router... and it's much slower... might as well just use the ethernet.
Maybe if wireless charging one day works throughout an entire building, we no longer need to charge anymore.
No, it's the ports on phones that are proof of concept, constantly getting full of dust or just stop working correctly. I'll take a wireless charger, thanks.
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