Are you using wireless charging? We have written more than once about the pros and cons of this charging method. On the one hand, it is convenient and you do not need to constantly use a wire. It is enough just to put your smartphone on the platform at the moment when you are not using it. This method will be especially convenient in the office. There is always a place for a small round accessory on the desktop. Recently, more and more smartphones support this technology, and users not only want to see it in their devices, but are sincerely surprised when the new product cannot be charged wirelessly. In the Google Pixel 5, which we have yet to see, we will be faced with one interesting feature built on the principle of wireless charging. But what is this function?
This charging method is fast, but not always convenient.
It's no secret that Android 11 already exists, albeit in the very first version for developers. Let me remind you that the final version will have to wait about six months more – until the third quarter of 2020. However, it allows us to familiarize ourselves with many of the features that we will see in it at the time of its release. So, representatives of XDA Developers have already found something interesting in it regarding the Google Pixel 5.
What will be the Google Pixel 5
Apparently, the Google Pixel 5 will support reversible wireless charging. This means that it will not only be able to charge by induction, but it will also dispense charge, like a wireless charging station. This will be especially true, for example, for charging headphones.
The Google Pixel 5 will refer to this feature as Battery Sharing and can be found in the Settings menu.
This function is not so common, but it is difficult to call it a novelty either. It can now be found in smartphones from manufacturers such as Samsung and Huawei, but at one time Google should have joined. This is the only way to develop your product by introducing new functions.
Google Pixel rightfully occupies a special place among Android smartphones.
However, when using reverse charging, the battery of the donor smartphone is not consumed very efficiently. Large losses in the wireless method of power transmission do not allow charging the second device without significantly discharging the battery of the first. Charging your smartphone is hardly worth it. Of course, if it's not an emergency.
The fact that this feature applies to Google, and not to all Android smartphones that will be updated to version 11, can be seen from its identifier. There are other evidence of belonging, which was found, including in the Java code.
If such a feature appears in the next generation Pixel, it will not be just a regular improvement, but a full-fledged new feature. Personally, I most likely would not use it in everyday life, but I would definitely like to see it in action. Perhaps Google will be able to implement it more interestingly than Korean and Chinese competitors have done.
At one time, using Huawei P30 Pro, I tried to charge the second smartphone in this way, but apart from the insane heating and charging speed, which was not enough even to ensure the smartphone's operation, I got nothing. During the correspondence in the messenger, the battery only sat down, albeit more slowly than without such a recharge.
In any case, all smartphones with wireless charging should be reversible in the near future. Even Apple is likely to give this opportunity in future generations iPhone. Even to charge AirPods on the go. Actually, as I said above, charging your watch or headphones is the most interesting way to use this function.