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A gimmick feature is an easy thing to toss in favor of Qi2.
Yea, I always thought of wireless charging as a bit gimmicky, but there’s absolutely no going back from qi2.
I used it once to charge my Pixel Buds and went “huh, that was neat, but inconvenient because now I have to keep my phone in one spot, can’t use it, and probably could just plug the buds into something nearby” then never used it again.
Tape bro
I’ve used battery share a grand total of 1 time. It was because someone needed an iPhone charger and all I had was USB-C. I’ll admit it was a cool party trick, I can’t imagine this impacts too too many people though.
Exactly my experience. I had just got a Pixel 7. Travelling with a friend who had the iPhone with Apple proprietary charging port. I got to be like “look what I can do”.
Cool but mostly unnecessary.
One more here. I had actually had forgotten it was a thing when, of course, the apple user needed a charge but didn’t bring their cable.
This was 2 weeks ago. I have a pixel 6. That was the first time I used it.
I use it to charge my work phone in the field if I need to. I’ve also used it to charge my headphones or similar (also in the field). I always feel like there’s lots of use cases people miss because they don’t use a feature so they don’t care if other people do.
I’ve used it a handful of times. Out with friends at a bar who didn’t live in this city, It’s 1 or 2 am and their phone was about to die.
It’s neat, but annoying. Neither of us could use our phones and if they picked it up to check anything my phone would turn power sharing off and I’d have to turn it back on again. That happened like half a dozen times, and made using it such a pain in the ass.
I’ve done this at a theme park exit to help somebody get a few % so they could contact the rest of their party about getting a ride. I was annoying to actually do it, but it worked.
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I always found use when traveling to charge my phone and my earbuds with one plug. But yeah, I can just bring two wires and do the same thing.
Or, you can pack a single charger that charges both! Just not at the same time. I find this works great when I’m traveling for work and can’t use my earbuds in the office anyway.
I am considering upgrading early for Qi2 on the Pixel phones. Losing reverse wireless charging doesn’t effect that decision.
I loved using battery share but with how Google has gimped it on the 9 series (not allowed to use it when the phone is charging) and then killing it on the 10 is such a terrible way to go out. I hope they bring back battery share to later models.
Boo!
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Nope. I personally think battery share is a better feature.
I’ve used that way more times than I’ve needed magnets for charging.
