Wireless inductive charging coming to MWg smartphones

In these parts, the mid-year should bring us warmer weather, a new iSomething product and a Windows Mobile phone that charges without an wire attached to it. Gearlog says that MWg will offer a smartphone this summer that uses inductive re-juicing simply by laying the phone on a special pad. Now if they could only make one for my home office chair, I expect my daily post count would double.

MWg currently has six Windows Mobile phones in their product pipeline; they'll be partnering with Splashpower for the inductive charging solution. What are your thoughts on this recharging approach? I'm not completely sold on it because the charging pad still has to be plugged in, so the benefit appears minimal. I'm assuming that you can still charge the phone without the pad by using a cable because I wouldn't want to carry the pad around...

Comments

[sbtablet]

The only advantage I see to the inductive approach would be the idea that it could be device agnostic. In other words, if this caught on as a widely adopted means of charging, I might someday be able to charge my cell phone, my MID, my iPod, etc. all on the same pad, and not need to have all those wires everywhere. I don't see this happening anytime soon, however.

[Robert Kawaratani]

I have a shaver that uses inductive charging. The main advantages are that the charger cradle is very water resistant and the cradle is easy to use. Use in a cellphone might offer slightly easier to use cradles and would be good for waterproof PDAs and cellphones.

[Xatrixer]

I could not see anything new in the specs in those devices.