{"id":266730,"date":"2026-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:45:08","slug":"seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, how do we not have more Android phones with Qi2 yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/\">Seriously, how do we not have more Android phones with Qi2 yet?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-07 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since the Pixel 10 was released last year, Qi2 magnets have been a love-hate relationship \u2013 I love using them, but I hate that, somehow, the Pixel 10 is the only Android phone that has them. It\u2019s crazy to me that no other Android brand has taken this feature seriously, and that we still have no word of that changing.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-717280\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google\u2019s newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and more. Sign up here to get Weekender delivered to your inbox early every weekend, and catch our weekday roundups too!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qi2 standard with magnets was announced in early 2023, over three years ago, with the promise of bringing the idea behind Apple\u2019s MagSafe to the industry as a whole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three years later, Android brands are largely still ignoring it.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google\u2019s Pixel 10 series was the first true embrace of Qi2 from Android, and it\u2019s been wonderful. Being able to use the Pixel 10 not only with Google\u2019s \u201cPixelsnap\u201d accessories, but a whole host of other Qi2 and MagSafe accessories really builds out an experience that you don\u2019t get elsewhere on Android. No matter how you use the device, no matter what case you use, it all works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s everyone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most major Android brands haven\u2019t even acknowledged Qi2 and, for those that have, there\u2019s been no true adoption. Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S26 series marks the second year in a row that the company has ignored this standard, this time for the sake of making devices a hair thinner instead of last year\u2019s lame excuse that \u201ccustomers aren\u2019t asking for it.\u201d Samsung is ignoring the bigger picture, but we\u2019ve talked about that before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing that kills me is that it\u2019s not like the industry isn\u2019t moving in that direction anyway, whether Android brands get on board or not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vast majority of new wireless chargers are all embracing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, how do we not have more Android phones with Qi2 yet? https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/07\/seriously-how-do-we-not-have-more-android-phones-with-qi2-yet\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/baseus-picogo-qi2-25w-battery-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-266730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266732,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266730\/revisions\/266732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}