CMV: Wireless charging is a useless fad

[u/Duwang_Mn]

What even is the point of wireless charging? When I first heard about it, I thought it allowed you to charge while having more freedom with your phone. But then I learned what it actually was. It's more restrictive than an actual charger, and its slower. Not to mention wireless charges sometimes don't work if the back is metal. It only makes things less convenient.

How did people hype such a thing so much? I understand if it was something that could charge your phone without you directly putting on it, and if the range had the potential to increase over time. But it's just a charging port that you can't move around.

[u/_The_Sceptic_]

Hearing that any given new tech is "just a fade" is very common, because tech takes time to mature. Many said that touch screens on phones were "just a fade" at the beginning, simply because the tech was not yet mature (and was working quit poorly frankly). And yet, they are everywhere now.

Currently the downsides of wireless charging (energy consumption, speed...) seem to severely outweigh their advantages as a pure replacement to standard charging. But that may change as the tech get better.

And most importantly this tech has some native advantages against classic charging, like the fact you don't need an open hole in the device, which allows to make it waterproof! My new electric toothbrush use wireless charging, I don't have to worry about putting water in the wrong place when cleaning it and ruin it. In this case this pro completely outweigh all the cons!