While Apple has offered MagSafe charging in iPhones since 2020's iPhone 12 series, to date, no Android phones have offered a comparable setup. That was supposed to change with the Qi2 wireless ...

A Qi2 Ready certification will allow Android phones to upgrade to Qi2 using only a case. More companies are preparing phones with Qi2 built in, including Google and Samsung. The first Qi2 Ready ...

Over two years have passed since the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) unveiled Qi2, the magnetic wireless charging standard that promised to bring MagSafe-like functionality to Android devices.

Google may be developing an Android equivalent to iOS's Standby Mode, which will let you transform your Android phone into a ...

Samsung integrating proper Qi2 support could help avoid such problems. It's a shame Android makers have been slow to adopt something that seems to be nothing but a win for consumers. Hopefully ...

Unfortunately, when it came to adding support for the Qi2 wireless charging standard to devices in 2024, it feels like Android phone makers were stuck on outdated patch notes. The Qi2 standard was ...

The Qi2 wireless charging spec was originally announced back in early 2023. However, Android phone makers haven’t exactly been rushing to add Qi2 support to their latest devices since then.

A new certification is coming for Qi2 devices that need a case to add magnetic alignment. A new certification is coming for Qi2 devices that need a case to add magnetic alignment. Wes Davis is a ...

Clamps suck! This is why I desperately want Qi2 to make its way into more Android phones, so I can natively use them with all these magnetic accessories—case or not. Two years is apparently not ...

Qi2 wireless charging was first announced all the way back in CES 2023, promising that something akin to Apple’s MagSafe would come to Android phones in the near future. So far there hasn’t ...

Finally, Android phones are starting to add Qi2 wireless charging, but with one major caveat. You need a case to take full advantage of Qi2. That’s right. Android phones like the Galaxy S25 ...