The Wireless Power Consortium introduced at CES on Monday that extra Android gadgets will use the MagSafe-based Qi2 charging customary in 2025. That doesn’t essentially imply they’ll all have magnets, although; the WPC says it now has a “Qi2 Ready” certification for telephones that want a case so as to add the magnetic alignment ring however in any other case meet the charging customary’s spec.
The announcement of Qi2 Ready might clarify latest rumors that you just’ll want a case so as to add magnetic charging to Galaxy S25 telephones from Samsung, which says it’s releasing Qi2 Galaxy gadgets later this yr. Meanwhile, Google says it’s “dedicated to the Qi2 wi-fi charging customary” and is contributing “its personal high-power wi-fi charging know-how to WPC.”
At the second, you want a case with an embedded magnet for many Android telephones to have MagSafe-style wi-fi charging. Apart from telephones just like the HMD Skyline, Apple has been alone in equipping its telephones with the magnetic ring that standard Qi2 certification now requires.
The WPC additionally introduced {that a} coming a part of the Qi2 customary can be in-car wi-fi charging with a shifting coil that shifts to maintain aligned with the coil in your cellphone, utilizing tech contributed by Panasonic Automotive Systems. Both the shifting coil and Qi2 Ready certification are a part of the Qi v2.1 replace.
