Realme Flash With Magnetic Charging Confirmed, a ‘First’ for Android Phones

Realme has revealed that the corporate is engaged on a new smartphone dubbed Realme Flash with ‘magnetic wireless charging tech.’ Although Apple launched magnetic wi-fi charging with Apple MagSafe on iPhone 12 collection final 12 months, the brand new improvement shall be a first for an Android smartphone, the corporate claims. Without any shock, this may also be a first for Realme that already affords as much as 65W wired quick charging with its commercially out there telephones, like Realme GT. Realme’s announcement comes days after GizmoChina shared renders of two charging options – one a round-shaped magnetic charger just like MagSafe and a square-shaped, cumbersome adapter that’s stated to perform as a wi-fi charging pad. The latter might supply sooner wi-fi charging tech, and compete in opposition to Xiaomi that gives as much as 65W of wi-fi charging speeds.

A promotional photograph on Twitter reveals a round-shaped define on the again of the Realme Flash for the magnetic wi-fi tech to perform. This is just like the spherical magnetic coil that we noticed on iPhone 12 fashions for MagSafe. There’s nonetheless no readability on the charging time, however for reference, it takes about an hour to cost an ‌iPhone 12‌ from zero to 50 % with Apple’s MagSafe‌ charger, which is double the time that it takes to cost utilizing a USB-C to Lightning cable and a 20W+ USB-C energy adapter. Realme would hope to deal with these shortcomings with the rumoured cumbersome charger for wi-fi charging.