One of the best known ways to charge your mobile, and currently one of the safest and most efficient for the life of your battery, is cable charging. Specifically, slow charging, despite the fact that phones have evolved to provide faster charging speeds. In fact, studies have shown that other types of loads require more energy.
However, for some this is an inconvenience because they have to have the phone charging on the wall, maintain a certain posture if they want to use it, have to find a place to charge even when they are away from home and walk with cables, which they do not like too much.
Therefore, you are probably wondering if this type of burden will disappear at some point or not. It is possible that the doubt arises after the latest news that has reached you and the controversy with USB-C cables.
Wireless charging could take over
It can also help you to think that there are more comfortable options, such as wireless charging, and some rumors that the new iPhone would arrive exclusively with wireless charging , thus avoiding having to jump through the hoops of the European law that requires them to offer phones with charging USB from 2024.
This same European regulation that spoke of a common charger on the continent with USB charging referred to wireless charging , which is increasingly used by mobile users and is not harmonized in all devices.
With the aim of developing it in the market for more devices, and not just staying for selected high-end models or high prices, the European Commission is going to work to harmonize wireless charging and interoperability based on technical advances .
It is expected that wireless charging will improve considerably in the coming years and reach many more mobiles so that all users can enjoy this type of charging. It is even possible that in the future all mobiles will have wireless charging. If we add to this that they have requested that smartphones stop carrying the charger in the box , all this leads us to a clear trend that could lead us towards this type of charge.
Fewer and fewer mobiles are for sale with the charger included. This does not mean that mobile cable charging will disappear , but it will be considerably reduced. We must also think that in the future we will have more comfortable and faster charges wirelessly, with new advances in this regard.
In fact, OPPO has recently launched a wireless charger that is capable of reaching a speed of 240W , making phones charge without a cable in less than 10 minutes.
It will not disappear, but it will be used less
Considering this type of charging at present, there is still much room for improvement to supplant the one carried out by cable, currently safer and more advisable to increase the useful life of the battery, but there are certain signs, such as the already indicated, which make us think that all this will change sooner than we imagine.
Of course, we do not think that cable charging will disappear , but that it will be used less and it may even end up relegated to the background if things change a lot. How do you think you are going to charge your mobile in, say, 5 years?