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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

This viral 'phone toaster' at CES can fully charge your handset in under 5 seconds - sort of

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This viral 'phone toaster' at CES can fully charge your handset in under 5 seconds - sort of

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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All you need is a Swippitt phone case and the company's charging hub to get a fresh battery swapped in seconds.
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    This is the definition of a gimmicky CES product. At first I thought it simply does wireless charging in a toaster form factor, but no…

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      Not to mention it looks like they were told to only take pictures from a specific angle to avoid showing the exact amount of bulk the case adds.

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        From The Verge article about it:

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        Even from the thumbnail it looks huge

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          Not to me.

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    I guess if you really are so desperate for extra battery capacity that you want to double the thickness of your phone and case then it’s an option, but that seems like a pretty niche situation.

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