Phones that are too big for wireless charging

I'll pass on the S8 then. I'm only up to S2, so got a bit to go to catch up!!

 

The S8+ model is the large one. The regular S8 is smaller.

 

Small will be big enough for me. I just use it a bit for email etc while I'm away from home. I understand it makes phonecalls too.

I need to work out how to use it as a music player - the car tells me that it is connected as an audio device, but no matter where I've saved MP3s, the car can't find them.

 

It might work better the other way round (top to bottom).

 

Yup doesn't charge my iPhone Mophie case either, too big to lay flat.... HUUUGE waste :/

 

Thanks for sharing! Oh well. You won't have to deal with the efficiency losses of wirelessly charging your phone with the traction battery, which was charged with a 40% thermal efficient combustion engine, or regenerated from potential energy.

 

Very iffy to work with my older Motorola Nexus 6 as well. I have a ballistic case and it has a curved back. Shedding the case gets it to kind of charge but very slow. It has been my experience that wireless charging in general doesn't work all that well.

 

Agreed it's not ideal, except just to charge the phone rather than run any apps while doing so.

 

I have a Samsung Note 3, it is not native for wireless charging. But with few euros I purchased a coil to be connected in the rear side of the phone between the battery and the cover... and it works!

 

Wife's Note 8 has to be precisely placed else it won't charge wirelessly. Shame the designers of the Prius didn't think phones would get bigger.

SM-N950U ?

 

So how about the S10+ which is a couple of mm shorter?

 

My Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone fits and charges fine in my 2019 Prius XLE, even in its large Otterbox Commuter Series case.

 

S10+ is working fine for me even in it's case on the charging pad. Only problem is it runs a lot warmer than the other charging pads I have so I'm really only charging it when I have to.

 

Just tested the Galaxy S9 that my wife has and it works nicely on the pad and there is room to spare. In about two weeks I will be getting a iPhone XR from work and I will see how that works. It has the added problem of a Otterbox case which increases the distance from the pad to the coils in the phone.

My car is a Corolla though, I will measure the pad tomorrow and post the measurements here to see if there is a difference in the sizes of the pads between the Prius and the Corolla.