Who do you think will create a wireless charging mod first?

[Swoop03]

I was thinking about this last night when I set my phone down on my wireless charging pad. I'm curious to see how long it takes for it to be implemented into mods. We already have voice control and touch screens and speakers in them now. Or will samsung come out with a Galaxy with a 510 on top of it. Maybe smok will start making phones next. It seems like a silly idea, but Chinese companies are sure heading in that direction in my opinion.

 

[QcVaper]

Dosen't matter to me, i'd still use an external charger just like the i still use a cable to charge my phone every night.
For batteries in the long run it's always better to have an external charger anyway, unless it's built into the mod then you're out of options lol.

 

[Swoop03]

That's what I'm saying, I see a lot of internal battery mods now a days. I like the wireless charger for my s8+ because I've had terrible luck with micro usb ports in the past.

My galaxy 4 had a removable battery, so I bought an extra and an external charger for it. Now that was convenient.

 

[puffon]

Vapor Shark did this in 2014, with the rDNA40.
I used it for awhile, but it was fairly slow charging and heated the mod/battery up quite a bit.
Went back to charging the batteries in a charger.

 

[Swoop03]

I dont think I was even aware that wireless charging was a thing 4 years ago. I'm not saying it's a good idea either as my phone does get warm using it, we all know hot batterys are a wonderful thing...

 

[Izan]

What do you mean "first"? circa 2013


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[puffon]

I dont think I was even aware that wireless charging was a thing 4 years ago. I'm not saying it's a good idea either as my phone does get warm using it, we all know hot batterys are a wonderful thing...

Yep, here's the charge pad they sold for it:
Wireless Charger

 

[SonnyCooL]

I was thinking about this last night when I set my phone down on my wireless charging pad. I'm curious to see how long it takes for it to be implemented into mods. We already have voice control and touch screens and speakers in them now. Or will samsung come out with a Galaxy with a 510 on top of it. Maybe SMOK will start making phones next. It seems like a silly idea, but Chinese companies are sure heading in that direction in my opinion.

no worry none of any mod sold for 1000 dollar yet.

 

[Zaryk]

I've had a wireless charger for my Xbox360 controllers for years now. Wireless charging is not exactly new tech.

As for the phone vape, that's been out for a while too as an iPhone case. Now they recently made one that takes pods.

 

[untar]

To me it's just a gimmick. A way to make consumers pay a few bucks extra to your company for a feature that isn't really needed in most mods. Of my 7 not a single one has an internal battery and I don't plan to buy one in the future that has. I prefer to charge my batteries in an external charger with plenty of air circulation instead of the confined space inside a mod. Aka free range batteries

What vaping needs is innovation/progress in the technology, not more toy features like a camera with hair cut suggestions based on emotion sensing or an onboard fart flavor extractor. Just do one job and do it well.

An industry standard for a better connection than the 510 or a standard 1/2/3 battery pack with a state of the art protection and information system would be more important issues.

 

[Swoop03]

Oh jeeze I must live under a rock or something. Yinz are all way ahead of me

 

[Punk In Drublic]

Batteries for mobile phones are made specifically for that model. This allows a much tighter control for a company such as Samsung can implement an efficient way of wireless charging for they know what the battery can handle.

If wireless charging was implemented for mods, it would have to output and at a low level in order to safely accommodate the various different specs of batteries. Not very efficient for a large capacity battery would take forever to charge. Way around this would be to integrate batteries into the mod, which if I had to guess, many of us do not want.

 

[Letitia]

Didn't Aspire do this already? Used a charging dock or something I think.

 

[Rangertrix]

Didn't Aspire do this already? Used a charging dock or something I think.

Several have it done it already.
Vaporshark in 2013 was, by far, the most successful with it.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

Did it once already myself, about 2 years ago.
Wireless charging is/was too slow for the hi-cap batteries.

 

[SonnyCooL]

I've had a wireless charger for my Xbox360 controllers for years now. Wireless charging is not exactly new tech.

As for the phone vape, that's been out for a while too as an iPhone case. Now they recently made one that takes pods.

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give me ten minute (i go find my selefon tape )

 

[stols001]

I don't use (and most folks don't use) wireless charging for phones that have been available for a while. I suppose they could be handy but I wouldn't know. I already consider Bluetooth some sort of strange witchery or voodoo and etc. I wish more folks would BACKWARD engineer their technology frankly. I found a floppy disk for a mac in college and I am dying to know what's on it but good luck, me.

LOL I suppose I could ask any ONE of the males in my immediate or bio family and they would give me terse instructions on how to "make it so," etc.. but that seems like a LOT of effort for one floppy disk, even if I have to go take it somewhere that converts it. I mean I know technology gets outdated, but I am also one who thinks technology can get super OVERTHOUGHT and that's a shame etc. I know, I know I know... it's better everyone says so I even LIKE my new phone already but sometimes I believe things can get a bit pointless like building boards more powerful than any set of batteries can support. What is the point ? How is that better? Isn't it kind of actually worse?

Anna

 

[Beamslider]

Seems like away to waste around 20% of the energy and stress the battery
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_without_wires
For household and business use, the California Energy Commission (CEC), Level V, mandates that AC adapters must meet a minimum efficiency of 85 percent; Energy Star Level V requires 87 percent (European CE uses CEC as a base). Adding the losses of the AC adapter to wireless charging brings the overall efficiency down further as the inductive transfer efficiency of inductive charging is only 75–80 percent. Such a loss adds up when considering that an estimated one billion mobile phone chargers are plugged into AC outlets worldwide. To improve efficiency and comply with the Energy Star requirements, WPC combines the power needs into a single power conversion.

Lost energy turns into heat, and a wireless charger can get quite warm during charging. This causes stress on the device’s battery as it sits on the mat. It should be noted that the heat buildup only occurs during charging; the charging pad cools down once the battery is fully charged.

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

I was thinking about this last night when I set my phone down on my wireless charging pad. I'm curious to see how long it takes for it to be implemented into mods. We already have voice control and touch screens and speakers in them now. Or will samsung come out with a Galaxy with a 510 on top of it. Maybe SMOK will start making phones next. It seems like a silly idea, but Chinese companies are sure heading in that direction in my opinion.

There have already been at least 3 mods with wireless charging.

The Aspire Pegasus used a dock.
The Ovanty Vega uses a dock.
The Esige Eiffel uses a Qi charger.

 

[flavourchaser]

I don't use (and most folks don't use) wireless charging for phones that have been available for a while.

Anna

I use wireless charging on my Samsung Galaxy S7. It's good and works well. The reason I use it is because I don't want to wear out or damage the micro usb port on my phone(known to happen), which I only use for uploading music or ring tones on my Phone. Though I rarely do.