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I never understood the use case for it. Not saying it's not there, but I don't get it. I can only see a few where it would even be usable at all, and even then they seem like a super rare situation.
One, to charge another phone that doesn't have access to the right cable (fucking Apple just thought that was cool for a while I guess- total fucking morons-actual braindead) in which case I can only see it useful in desperate situations. But personally I don't carry a second device around that would need it or be able to take advantage of it. I am just hearing in this thread that the Pixel Buds can do this which I hadn't heard before, but lately I haven't really used them for long periods anyway, so admittedly I'm not the target. I just don't think the target is that big.
And I almost always have a charger somewhere accessible that would negate the point anyway.
But qi2 seems just marginally more convenient at best, but not really impactful. But plopping it the charger instead of fiddling to find the end of the cord and insert it into the phone, while potentially dealing with kids or pets or anything that makes it hard to take a second it would be a little more convenient.
But if the 2 choices, a little convenience far faaaaar outweighs a parlor trick. Am I missing something? The reverse charging (even while iPhones were all wireless charging) just seemed like a compensation for not being able to do that. And now it seems like they're finally able to do it for whatever reason. So taking away the pity feature to give us the real deal is a good thing it seems for almost everybody.
I'm the end though, they really need to go back to chunkier phones that can just do everything rather than all these super skinny ones that you have to pick and choose what it will and won't be able to do. Make it fatter and give us both (both = qi and reverse), and a headphone jack, and swappable batteries and extra SD slots, and swappable backplates that aren't made of glass and breakable.
The last time I had a wireless chargeable phone was the Galaxy S3. And I've been on Nexus/Pixels since that device. And it wasn't even that way, I used a 3rd party add-on to even get that. And it didn't have magnets. Back in my day...
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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.