Future Android phones will feature MagSafe-like wireless fast charging - Engadget

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has unveiled Qi2, the wireless charging successor to Qi that borrows immoderate tricks from Apple's MagSafe charging. The thought is to make a unified strategy that (should) enactment with some Android and Apple devices, the WPC wrote successful a press release

Qi2 volition regenerate the existent Qi modular that has been astir for implicit 13 years. It'll beryllium built disconnected of Apple's MagSafe exertion that came on with the iPhone 12, utilizing a akin strategy of magnets and a wireless charging coil. However, it volition present thing called the Magnetic Power Profile that ensures phones and different devices are perfectly aligned to maximum charging velocity and efficiency. It besides assures compatibility among brands. 

"Qi2’s cleanable alignment improves vigor ratio by reducing the vigor nonaccomplishment that tin hap erstwhile the telephone oregon the charger is not aligned," said WPC's enforcement manager Paul Struhsaker successful a statement. "Just arsenic important, Qi2 volition greatly trim the landfill discarded associated with wired charger replacement owed to plugs breaking and the accent placed connected cords from regular connecting and disconnecting."

The archetypal Qi2.0 mentation volition motorboat this year, with enactment for 15 watt charging, overseas entity detection and more. It'll besides supply faster charging for immoderate devices, amended information and forestall instrumentality harm oregon artillery beingness shortening. 

The Magnetic Power Profile modular besides makes improvements easier down the road. Future iterations volition "significantly" rise charging levels past 15 watts, WPC told The Verge. It could besides let wireless charging for unusually-shaped accessories that aren't compatible with the existent harvest of level charging pads.

There are inactive immoderate question marks, similar whether Qi2 volition beryllium backwards-compatible with the existent Qi modular oregon Apple's MagSafe. It volition reportedly besides necessitate authentication, which whitethorn let manufacturers to garbage charging from non-certified devices.  

Hopefully, instrumentality and charger manufacturers volition strive to main compatibility. The Qi2 spec should beryllium acceptable by this summer, and products are acceptable to get by the holidays successful 2023.