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Wireless charging is great, but it's often frustratingly slow,

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incompatible with your gadgets, or difficult to use because you can't get your phone to

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line up exactly with the charger. Just do it. But low and behold, an upcoming standard might

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just solve all of these issues in one fell swoop. I'm talking about Qi2, the long-awaited update

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to the original Qi charging standard that came out all the way back in 2010. It's been described

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by some outlets as MagSafe for Android, and this is actually pretty fitting.

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But you Apple users should pay attention to. Like MagSafe, Qi2 is a magnetic standard,

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and Apple had a hand in its development as they, along with Google and Samsung,

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are members of the Wireless Power Consortium, who published the standard. Aw, isn't it nice when

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gigantic faceless corporate adversaries get along? Not only will this make wireless charging more

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convenient and that your devices will now magnetically stick to the charger, but Qi2 should

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also really help with making sure the charger is properly aligned with your phone's induction coil.

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Which is great news for the millions of us who keep getting those annoying notifications saying

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we need to readjust our phone for optimal charging. And despite the simplicity of the design,

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there are even more improvements over Qi1 and potentially even MagSafe. We'll tell you what

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they are right after we thank the sponsor of this video. The tighter and more precise coupling of the

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induction coils also means that there should be less undesirable heat buildup when charging.

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Because wireless energy transfer isn't terribly efficient, quite a bit of that energy is wasted

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as heat, and in severe cases, heat can even affect the long-term health of your battery. But with

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the magnetic design getting the coils as close to each other as possible and as well aligned as

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possible, it should be less of a problem with Qi2. Qi2 is also going to allow faster wireless

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charging than what we're used to today. The current generation of Qi charging tops out at

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15 watts, but this is merely going to be a starting point for Qi2. While it looks like Qi2 devices

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won't initially be faster than 15 watts, the standard will support higher charging rates

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in the future. You also won't have to worry as much about buying poor quality counterfeit chargers

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that don't deliver the advertised performance with Qi2. Unlike the original Qi standard, Qi2

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will support a handshaking process where a device can actually just refuse to work with

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shoddily built chargers that aren't compliant with the Qi2 spec, or at the very least give you a

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warning message. The WPC has come out and said that they can actually get non-compliant devices

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delisted from shopping sites like Amazon, making it less likely you'll buy a POS.

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But when exactly are we going to start seeing Qi2 devices hit the market? Look for the first ones

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in late 2023. These likely will be phones and wireless earbuds. Sometime in mid 2024,

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we can expect other devices like tablets and smartwatches to start dropping.

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As for the iPhone 15, well, Apple has said hardware-wise it supports the standard,

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and the software will support future Qi2 wireless charging, but it's anyone's guess as to when

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they'll enable the feature. I would ask Tim Cook myself, but he never returns my calls.

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