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[logitechor]

I ordered and received the PowerQI from China. Cheaper then Google's and I could order it. It came already. Works like a charm.

[Phil Lee]

Does anyone know if any of these mats work when the official bumper is fitted to the phone?

Edited by Phil Lee, 21 February 2013 - 04:27 PM.

[everett_psycho]

I'd guess the maxell does, or works through my tpu case which has rubber all down the back of the phone so with nothing in the way I'd think the bumper would work fine

[logitechor]

Hi. I have the bumper and it charges fine with it on.

[Ribs85]

Hi,

I've ended up getting two QI Chargers this week. I only ordered the car version, but actually got the car version, and the desktop version. Dunno why, maybe I  ordered wrong, but whatever...
The charger is here:
Car version:
http://owlpad.net/carpad-for-nexus-4/
Desktop version:
http://owlpad.net/ow...r-nexus-4-n-qi/

Initial impressions are good. Both the car charger and the desktop charger did indeed charge the phone.

The car charger struggled on the *very short* journey I did yesterday (6 minutes!), phone was 96% charged, and the car charger said it was fully charged in about a minute, the phone stayed at 96% however, so who knows. But that's good enough for satnavving, if it holds the charge long enough. I shall be testing it this afternoon when I go for a much longer drive.

I've mounted the car charger onto a 17mm mount, in turn mounted to brodit mount in the car. It's all a little bit more bulky than I would like, but looks nice and keeps things away from the screen, which is what I want.

Oddly, the car charger comes with a raiser, to move the phone off the QI coil a little bit. Moon (the man who made this), says it's to prevent heat build up with charging the phone and using satnav at the same time. I shall try it both with and without the mount and see how I get on. Heat build up and the phone/unit ceasing to charge when it's getting too hot have been a major problem during the development of this product. The car environment only makes it worse, with sunlight hitting the device and high temperatures (or no air-conditioning) causing issues (I did experience this more than once with my old Orange San Diego with regular wired charging).

The desktop charger worked fine. Woke up this morning to 100% charge, but oddly the phone said it had only been off the charger for 26 minutes when I took it off the QI charger, so maybe it had charged, discharged a bit and then charged again? I don't know. I use a app in the background to help me sleep, so this might have something do with it. I've heard awful things about this charger crapping out at 60-80%, so I guess time will tell on that one, but initial impressions are good. So be honest, even if it charges in chunks and stop/starts overnight, I think I'll probably be okay with that.

I've only used both items once so far. Will report back later if anyone is interested in hearing more?

[everett_psycho]

The car charger problem may be that at 96% it doesn't initiate the charging process, unlike the wired chargers wireless ones only kick in of you drop below a set percentage, I think it's either 90 or 95%

[bbawden]

Anyone know when the official charging orb will be available in the UK?

[Brembo109]

Hi Guys, I´ve ordered one of this very attractive QI chargers on ebay : http://url9.de/yZo . There is also an XDA thread about it (http://url9.de/yZV), and the overall performance and usability seems very good. Maybe it´s a good alternative for people like me who are unable to get an official Orb. I will report back when mine arrives from China if anyone is interested.

Greetz

Brembo

Edited by Brembo109, 12 March 2013 - 01:46 PM.

[tdroza]

Brembo109, on 12 March 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:

I will report back when mine arrives from China if anyone is interested.

Please do! I'm very interested in this charger. It's a shame that it's not £10 or £15 cheaper but I guess while the official one is still so hard to get hold of, the 3rd party manufacturers can pretty much dictate their price. I'm hoping that prices will start tumbling as more chargers come to market and more handsets support QI - I'd like one for my desk at work, one for my bedside table, and one for the coffee table - but at £40 each I'll probably stick with my $2 retractable usb cable!