Qi Chargers – Are they worth it?

They charge quite slow but perfect for top up charges, if like you discribe, you know where you’ll be most of the time  like a desk or chair

Personally if your phone can do fast charge, I prefer that, and think if your phone can charge quickly and it has decent battery life, it’s better just to give the phones small boosts as and when needed. Cos QC will dump 80% in about 40 mins. So a couple of 10 min charges through the day will keep a phone between 20 and 80%, all the time.

Charging to 100% all the time isn’t good got a battery, and worse still keeping it on charge a lot, (just like a laptop) it shortens the life of the battery dramatically. My wife lives with her phone plugged in all the time, and she has never had a battery last 12 months.

Now she has the P20 and finally I’ve it her to stop the constant charging, as it’s battery life is decent, and quick charge (don’t recall what srandered it is, there is a few atm) but it works very well.

Isn’t honour an arm of huawei? If so I bet it has a decent fast charge, as the Nexus 6p was Huawei phone (3 years old ish) iirc quick charge 2, and that also worked well. But it’s the P20 Pro I currently have that really shines. Charges quick, and has a 4000mah battery that lasts well. I never charge it overnight anymore. Just plug in for 10 mins in the morning then again sometime through the day.

I think wireless charging was a good idea 6 years ago. Sadly car oems have started to install it, just as most of try phone oems are dropping it. It’s cos Apple decided to include it finally, so as usual the industries decide its now a thing.

Although I’d quite like witless charging in the car, (I always charge on the car due to me using Sat nav). Though the last time I charged witless charing it was slow. Like using a 500mah plug.

Granted that was about 5 years ago, and it was a failure as phones drank batterys back then, so we needed faster charging. Back then even plugs only offered 1amp at 5v. I think my current charger is 3amps at 9v, (i cant check the plug atm given its 02:35) then at 80% fails back to 1amp 5v. For a gentler finish. ?

After all that drivel, I’d say if a Qi charger fits into your life and you sant have fast charge, yes it should work. Though I wouldn’t buy on price. I’d really compare a lot. And I’d buy from Anker or the like, and not some generic no name stuff.

Or if you go by cheap, just buy one base station and one receiver, to test it out. I’d buy from Amazon too, so exchanging it is guaranteed.

Steve, I find that my phone (a Wileyfox) also does a variable rate charge, and cuts right down to a slow trickle charge above 80%. One year on, the battery seems to have a very similar performance to its original.

Battery management is an art, and some phone makers unwisely save a few pence in this area. I do agree that the worst thing you can do is to allow the phone battery to go below 20% (ideally not below 50%).

Ed P wrote:

Steve, I find that my phone (a Wileyfox) also does a variable rate charge, and cuts right down to a slow trickle charge above 80%. One year on, the battery seems to have a very similar performance to its original. Battery management is an art, and some phone makers unwisely save a few pence in this area. I do agree that the worst thing you can do is to allow the phone battery to go below 20% (ideally not below 50%).

I have the same experience with my Swift and SWMBO’s Spark, Ed. However, my Gert has only learned not to run hers down to nothing, in the last few weeks. That was due to a failed boot, after who knows how may shutdowns. I managed to recover it, but at least the lesson has gone home: now, every time she uses the Spark, she checks the battery. Always takes a near-disaster!

LG/Nokia/Samsung are a few more brands that are reliable.

Off topic I know, but earlier Steve referred to “Women and children”, with which I disagree. Now if you had said “My wife and my children” then I would agree 100%.

Many years ago I had a women running all the different functions in the lab, including SENSIBLY tidying my desk once a week when I was elsewhere.

Occasionally,  she would tell me of some trivial disagreement with her hubby, at which point I realised there were WIVES and WOMEN, definitely different.

Les. Edit: Spelling.

I once worked for a woman who at one time was the maintenance officer in charge of a US Marine Harrier Squadron. I suspect that she had great respect for a whole bunch of things that she did not actually buy! (Btw she was an excellent boss). So ‘most’ maybe but that has not been my personal experience.