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When will phone makers start building these into phones so that I don't have to have attached to my phone a proprietary case -- or some special case to support a proprietary charging pad -- that always occupies my data port?

Genuine question. Does anybody know if any makers are doing this/thinking about doing this?

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I know a handful of Lumia phones that come built in with it. I have been using one for about 2+ years and must say its extremely convenient. No more fiddling plugging in or tugging on cables. When you are not holding your phone you put it down somewhere, and if that somewhere has a charging plate you never have to worry about low battery. Have bought multiple of these wireless chargers and also had one modified for the car's cup holder where I tend to place my phone while driving.

I do very much like the idea, but how does it affect the health of the battery? Even with modern lithium whatever batteries, I still have the impression that charging too often is bad for their longevity.

I think you're thinking of the old nickel batteries, lithiums liked to be fully charged at all times.

The past few Nexus phones (and some tablets?) have had this built-in. It's amazingly convenient.

latest model nexus 7 definitely does.

What modern phone doesn't have wireless charging built-in?

I was thinking specifically about Samsung and iPhones.

The Samsung Galaxy S6/Edge has wireless charging (Qi and Powermat) built in.

LG phones.

Oddly, the LG-made Nexus 4 from 2012 does have Qi support (though it's very finicky)

The LG-made Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 both have Qi charging built in.

Ha! I know that iPhones don't come with wireless charging, and I assume you do too. But I too was tempted to reply sarcastically with precisely the sentence you wrote here (especially when GP seems to be feigning ignorance of the many phones that do come with built-in wireless charging, so why not mirror that feigned ignorance). Because it's surprising that the iPhone would still require fussing with wires. It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years. You'd think the idea of doing away with connectors entirely would be appealing to them.

And to repeat the tired meme, once Apple releases an iPhone that does have wireless charging, it will be heralded as the dawn of wireless charging.

I have a Windows phone and I wrongly assumed that the Windows phone is behind on features. I figured that if it's on my phone then every other phone, especially iPhone, must have it already.

The other day there was some iCloud announcement about how if you take a picture on one device it will automatically sync to the other devices...and my mind was blown because if it wasn't doing that before what was the point of iCloud? I give the other phones too much credit I guess.

> It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years.

That's definitely not accurate, the 30-pin connector was introduced in 2003 and wasn't replaced until 2012.

You forgot thunderbolt, mini-display port, hdmi, micro-dvi, dvi, adc (their own spin on dvi), the two different flavors of magsafe, multiple flavors of firewire, usb-a, and now usb-c.

They did skip DisplayPort though.

Apple's not a company that thinks about the past much.

Those are for different devices though. The iPhone is only on its second connector, just like Android.

Moto X 2014 version :/

Moto G

My Nokia 929 has built in wireless charging. I believe it's Qi charging.

Many Lumia phones have Qi built in. This started happening over two years ago. I personally would never buy a phone without built-in wireless charging today.

You can get replacement battery covers for Samsung S5 phones that let you use Qi chargers. Still leaves the S5 water-resistant too.

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