Tom's Hardware Italia🔌 Google Pixel e caricatori Qi, un'accoppiata meno armoniosa di quanto sperato! Scopri di più. #QiCharging #GooglePixelProblems
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/smartphone/utenti-pixel-usano-caricatori-qi-sbagliati-2025-12-06
Rob PegoraroPixel 9 Pro long-term assessment: the best $200 extra I’ve spent on a phone
The Pixel 9 Pro phone that I bought last December–for the most money I have yet spent on a smartphone–is now theoretically obsolete with Google’s introduction of the Pixel 10 series at the end of August. But it doesn’t feel even faintly out of date.
I had spent more than my budget for previous phones after the demise of my Pixel 5a for a few different reasons: The Pixel 8a that PCMag was kind enough to loan me ran hot and rebooted randomly too often; the base Pixel 9, starting at $799, had significantly worse battery life in PCMag’s tests; the 5x optical zoom lens on the Pixel 9 Pro, $999 and up, seemed like it would justify the extra $200 by itself.
And then I spent an extra $100 to get a configuration with 256 GB of storage, offset initially by a $150 discount at purchase and and later by a $150 rebate for a trade-in of the ancient, still-functional Pixel 3a that I’d kept around as a backup. That brought my final cost with taxes to $855.94.
Nine months later, I still find myself appreciating the 9 Pro’s telephoto lens almost every day. Having that glass in the camera I have with me almost all of the time has made an enormous difference in my photography, allowing me to get meaningfully closer to subjects ranging from overhead aircraft to a musican onstage.
The extra money I spent to double the stock 128 GB also seems eminently well spent. With my entire music library on this phone (which I can’t listen to via my best wired headphones without a USB-C dongle), constant picture taking and only intermittent attempts to prune the phone of underused apps, I still have almost half of that space left free. This may be the first phone I’ve owned where I didn’t have to worry about its storage capacity since the feature phones I carried up before upgrading to the first of a series of Palm Treo phones more than 20 years ago.
The rest of the Pixel 9 Pro hasn’t represented such a remarkable advance. Battery life has been good enough for me not to worry about it–helped by the ability of this phone to recharge quickly over USB-C and cordlessly via the Qi charging surfaces that are no longer such a rare sight in hotels and even some premium airplane cabins.
Like most new phones, the 9 Pro embeds its fingerprint sensor in the touchscreen, and I still find myself tapping on the wrong part of it until the display lights up with a fingerprint icon telling me where I should have done that.
I have not needed one of the Pixel 9 Pro’s more-hyped features, its Satellite SOS emergency-messaging capability. That’s a good thing, but the one time I tried to test it–on a beach on California’s northern coast with zero T-Mobile bandwidth shown–I could only get Google’s demo to work once.
As for the AI features that Google has emphasized so much, I can’t say that I’ve used them much. Or at least I haven’t used them in ways that makes this phone feel more powerful than older Pixel phones that merely ran software that could do some machine-learning tasks on-device. Which also explains why Google’s emphasis on AI in the Pixel 10 series–as Ars Technica’s Ryan Whitwam phrased it in his review, “Google pulled out all the stops and added a ton of new AI features you may not care about”–doesn’t click with me.
The part of Google’s fundamental Pixel pitch that I do continue to appreciate: getting that company’s full set of features without bloatware attached, then never having to wait for weeks or months to get feature updates or even security fixes. My phone may now rank as slightly old, but its software is more recent than what’s on a lot of just-shipped Android phones from other vendors.
#5xZoom #AI #android #AndroidUpdates #opticalZoom #phoneStorage #Pixel10Phones #Pixel9Phones #Pixel9Pro #PixelPhones #QiCharging #smartphonePhotography #telephotoLens
SoyaCincauPixelsnap is Google’s answer to MagSafe: Magnetic Qi2 chargers & cases launched #applemagsafe #digitallife #google #googlepixel10 #googlepixel10pro #googlepixel10profold #googlepixel10proxl #googlepixelsnap #magsafe #news #pixel10 #pixel10pro #pixel10profold #pixel10xl #qi #qi2 #qicharger #qicharging #qiwirelesscharger #qiwirelesscharging #smartphones #tech #wirelesscharging
https://soyacincau.com/2025/08/21/google-pixelsnap-qi2-magnetic-pixel-10-pro-xl-fold-malaysia-price/
Greg KaplanNative Union’s Voyage 2-in-1 Magnetic Wireless Charger seems like then best answer to a 3rd party replacement to Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Duo. A bit thicker (7.1mm thicker when closed) but thinner than all the other third party and has USBC, Qi2 and simultaneous Apple Watch fast charging. Might give it a go. I do miss fast charging when I travel.
#magsafe #qicharging #wirelesscharging #travel #applewatch #iphone
https://www.nativeunion.com/products/voyage-2-in-1-magnetic-wireless-charger?variant=42752221184139
Tesla’s new charger can wirelessly charge two phones at the same time #digitallife #news #powerbank #qi #qicharging #qiwirelesscharging #tech #tesla #teslalifestyle #teslapowerbank #teslawirelessportablecharger
https://soyacincau.com/2024/09/26/tesla-wireless-portable-charger-2-phones/
TheOpenCaseIs MagSafe the same as Qi charging? Not exactly. Check out our latest news post to learn the answer to this question that confounds so many.
#magsafe #qi #qicharging #iphone #opencase #phonecharging
https://theopencase.com/blogs/news/is-magsafe-the-same-as-qi-charging
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Apple iPhone 15 and BMW wireless chargers are not compatible currently. Here’s why #apple #bmw #cars #featured #iphone15 #iphone15plus #iphone15pro #iphone15promax #news #qicharging #smartphones #tech #wirelesscharging
Phantom Hack 🇵🇸Great to see that #MagSafe will become an industry standard and will be supported on non-Apple and Made For iPhone (MFi) devices and accessories. Looking forward to MagSafe compatible #Android phones.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/03/qi2-wireless-charging-standard-gains-magsafe/
#Apple #Android #iOS #MagSafe #WirelessChargjng #QiCharging #qicompatible #qiwirelesscharging #iphone #Samsung #Google
petapixel (unofficial)IKEA’s Sjömärke Goes Under Surfaces for Invisible Wireless Charging
IKEA has been adding more function and style to the ever-expanding lineup of work-from-home furniture and accessories in its arsenal. The company's new the Sjömärke wireless Qi charging pad will bring wireless charging to nearly any wood or plastic-based surface in a home.
According to the instruction manual, the device is designed to mount underneath surfaces for which you'd like to hide cables in order to keep the room looking neat and minimalist.
Unlike most other wireless charging stations, which require users to place their rechargeable devices on a matt or charge station, this seven-inch by three-inch charger hides beneath a table or shelf using double-sided adhesive strips (or screws should buyers want to make it permanent), creating an invisible wireless charging station.
IKEA recommends that the wood or plastic surfaces you choose to apply the wireless Qi charging station be between 0.31-0.87 inches (8-22mm) thick for the best performance.
For a visual guide on where to place your phone or tablet (and perhaps your camera, one day), IKEA has provided a transparent guide sticker to place on the table surface to align with where the symbol appears on the charging unit. Then just place the power-starved device on the sticker and start charging.
The pad comes with a six-foot power cable allowing for some flexible cable management that should reach most outlets and power bars. IKEA says the Sjömärke wireless Qi charger also comes with temperature and power monitoring so it won't overheat against the wood or plastic surfaces.
The Verge reports that the charger runs Qi 1.2.4 and operates at the standard charge rate of 5W, meaning there aren't any fancy fast charging or brand-specific improvements, so the main advantage of this charger is in its out-of-sight nature.
Here's a short video introducing the Sjömärke and showing how it works:
The IKEA Sjömärke charging station should be an appealing new option for people who want to keep their workspace clean and uncluttered while having the convenience of wireless Qi charging. It will be available in IKEA stores and online starting October 2021 with a price tag of $40.
#news #products #technology #40 #charting #hotspot #ikea #qicharging #sjömärke #wireless #wirelessqi
