What type of phone case is best for wireless charging? - Engadget

If your wireless charger is slow, the problem might be your case. Wireless charging is all the rage these days, but it took a while to become mainstream. The feature was originally introduced in 2009 on the Palm Pre (one of many features that helped the device become a holy grail for smartphone nerds to this very day). Ironically, the Pre used a magnetic charging stand to align its wireless charging coils, an idea that would fall by the wayside for 11 years before surging to widespread popularity when Apple introduced MagSafe charging on the iPhone 12. In the years between those two iconic smartphones, wireless charging was more niche. Nokia included it on the Lumia 920, and that 2012 device was the first phone to use the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi standard, which remains the de facto standard for wireless charging even today. It was quickly followed by the Samsung Galaxy S3, which could be retrofitted with a sold-separately wireless charging accessory. But the Google Nexus 4, manufactured by LG, was the first Android phone to come with Qi charging out of the box. In 2017, the iPhone 8 became the first of the company's smartphones to support wireless charging, giving the tech a