Yesterday a rumor (in Chinese) claimed the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max would get reverse wireless charging support, in a first for any Apple smartphone ever.
Don’t take out the champagne just yet, though. Google just launched the Pixel 10 family with Qi2 wireless charging with built-in magnets – this is essentially the same tech that Apple uses under the MagSafe brand, since Apple practically open-sourced it a few years back in a bid to get it to be the industry standard, which it now is.
So, it’s the same thing but under a different name, and yet Google had to leave out…