i love my smartphone but it doesn't have
wireless charging capabilities built in
which i would love i talked to jeff
about this problem and he's all you can
upgrade any phone to be compatible with
your wireless charger
one of the great things about cell
phones is that they literally can go
anywhere with you and do a whole bunch
of stuff but it does mean that it takes
up battery and one of the challenges
i've always had with cell phones is that
often my charge cables are not long
enough
if i'm going somewhere or they're too
long because maybe i've bought a 10-foot
cable and i just have extra cable
kicking around and i hate that idea i
like the idea that i could just pick up
my phone walk away instead of having to
finagle with the charge cables and maybe
the connections get broken you're like
oh my goodness now it's not doing a
proper charge and so when i got this
cell phone i was told that it had
wireless charging capabilities
and
turns out it didn't and so i bought the
phone i bought these wireless charge
devices and i was like this is great
it's going to be awesome and i'm putting
the phone on and i'm like why isn't it
charging
and
turns out it wasn't what i was sold but
i liked the phone so i didn't want to
return it so i thought you know what
there's got to be a way that i can make
this
wireless chargeable and
the answer is you can
i did some research and i found out that
you can buy some
wireless charging receivers
just anywhere online that you can put
into your phone
uh
through the charge port and that's how
you can wirelessly charge so in the case
of my phone
i've got it in a case
and obviously i'm not going to put this
inside the phone but i am going to hook
it up to the charge port and so because
my phone is usbc that's the connection
that i bought i just plunk it in just
like that
and now i have a really thin wireless
charging uh pack on my phone so that i
can take it
i can put it on my charge table
poof
and i'm ready to go my phone's charged i
take off i don't have to worry about
cables
and it's really nice it's really
convenient and i've got a whole bunch of
wireless accessories now everywhere in
my house i've got one down on my
computer i've got one in my bedroom i've
got a wireless charging unit in my car
and everywhere i go i just put my phone
it charges i'm good to go i don't have
to play with the cables now if you're
going to do this with your phone
you want to do some research first find
out does your phone have fast charge
capabilities if it does then there's a
couple options available to you when it
comes to different wireless charging
packs
when you're doing that if you have fast
charge available you want to look at
your milliamps because
these while they look the same provide
different charge rates this one two
thousand milliamps this one 1000
milliamps so you're gonna get a much
faster charge out of this one than you
will this one one of the other things to
keep in mind is the thickness you may
not be able to tell but there's a
significant difference between those two
and that's going to matter especially
with the case that you've got on your
phone
the first one that i bought
actually was this one it was a fast
charge and i'm like this is going to be
great it's really cool
it's crazy thick and what happened is
that my case wouldn't actually go back
on my phone because it was too thick and
it bulged right out
the other thing i want to mention is
these heat up
any of them heat up because it works off
magnets
and if you have a metal case you're
gonna need to change your case because
the metal cases get extremely hot and
the first time i charge i went to grab
my phone i actually dropped it because
my case was so hot so if you're gonna
convert your phone to a wireless charger
do not use a metal case use a plastic
case
and you can see i've got my phone uh in
my case there's really no bulge at all
from the wireless pack but if i put this
one on it would be quite thick and it
wouldn't fit properly so when you're
doing your research on wireless charging
you want to take a look at how thick
that is
and as well how fast it charges the last
thing i want to mention to you is the
length of this little cable because
where your
wireless charge pad is in the back of
your phone may interfere with your
camera if the cable's too long
so you see on my phone it's a bit of a
longer phone so i've got some clearance
between the camera
and the receiver
when i purchase this one because the
cable is significantly longer
you can see that it goes much higher on
my phone and if you have a shorter phone
where your camera is a bit lower this
could interfere with your camera could
interfere with where the charging port
is on your base unit
one of the units that i have at home
that i charge when i
plug my phone in at or when i put my
phone on the dock at night
the charging port is down near the
bottom and when i had this and it wasn't
connecting because this went too high so
keep that in mind when you're converting
your phone to wireless charge and once
you've plugged it in it's kind of a set
and forget i don't have to carry cables
with me anymore i don't have to worry
about
plugging it in as i go just place it
down
away i go and it charges nice and fast
my fast charge cable i can charge my
phone in about two hours on this unit
takes me
about two and a half hours because it's
a fast charge
qi receiver so there you go you want to
take your phone upgrade it by converting
it to a wireless charger it's just that
simple find your wireless charging unit
somewhere online make sure it's
compatible with your device whether it
be usbc or micro usb whatever it might
be and check the dimensions check how
thick it is check the length of cable
all those things to make sure it's going
to be exactly what you need and then
you're off to the races
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jeff thanks so much man that is a huge
improvement on my traditional smartphone
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