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What modern phone doesn't have wireless charging built-in?

Ha! I know that iPhones don't come with wireless charging, and I assume you do too. But I too was tempted to reply sarcastically with precisely the sentence you wrote here (especially when GP seems to be feigning ignorance of the many phones that do come with built-in wireless charging, so why not mirror that feigned ignorance). Because it's surprising that the iPhone would still require fussing with wires. It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years. You'd think the idea of doing away with connectors entirely would be appealing to them.

And to repeat the tired meme, once Apple releases an iPhone that does have wireless charging, it will be heralded as the dawn of wireless charging.

I have a Windows phone and I wrongly assumed that the Windows phone is behind on features. I figured that if it's on my phone then every other phone, especially iPhone, must have it already.

The other day there was some iCloud announcement about how if you take a picture on one device it will automatically sync to the other devices...and my mind was blown because if it wasn't doing that before what was the point of iCloud? I give the other phones too much credit I guess.

> It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years.

That's definitely not accurate, the 30-pin connector was introduced in 2003 and wasn't replaced until 2012.

You forgot thunderbolt, mini-display port, hdmi, micro-dvi, dvi, adc (their own spin on dvi), the two different flavors of magsafe, multiple flavors of firewire, usb-a, and now usb-c.

They did skip DisplayPort though.

Apple's not a company that thinks about the past much.

Those are for different devices though. The iPhone is only on its second connector, just like Android.

I was thinking specifically about Samsung and iPhones.

The Samsung Galaxy S6/Edge has wireless charging (Qi and Powermat) built in.

Moto X 2014 version :/

Moto G

LG phones.

Oddly, the LG-made Nexus 4 from 2012 does have Qi support (though it's very finicky)

The LG-made Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 both have Qi charging built in.

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