Wireless charging bickering dialog

Yes I am because its inherently wasteful and that’s dictated by physics. I won’t bother going into the specifics of electromagnetic induction, what wireless charging is based on, but needless to say it’s lossy. There’s no way you can get it much higher than 80% unless you start messing with the shape of the whole device. Even once the device is uncomfortable to hold in your hand it won’t be any more efficient than 90% as compared to 99% versus just plugging it in.

Data transfer would also be painfully slow if you tried to cram that in there too. Wireless charging operates on roughly 100-200 kHz range while older slow versions of bluetooth and wifi operates in the 2.4GHz spectrum. So that’s just a stupid idea. Plain and simple.

Outside of a few niche applications wireless charging is just a wasteful cool factor thing pushed by companies whose main job is to just sell people things. If third parties are going to be making their own ToHs with them, then go ahead and waste your time and money. But Jolla really shouldn’t waste any of their time and money either changing the ToH specs for this and especially not making an official one. There are a 1001 better things they could spend all that effort on.

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