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after being tempted and teased for what seems like forever wireless charging is finally starting to arrive I'm Joe Levi for pocket now and we're going to take a look at wireless charging pads from energizer and Nokia before we get started it's important to know that both of these support the Qi standard Qi is spelled Qi just in case you were wondering if you have a wireless device or a device that charges wirelessly rather you also need to support that standard luckily I have a nexus 4 and sure enough it supports this standard all you have to do is drop it on the pad little LED lights up and sure enough it is charging same thing over here with the Nokia drop it and sure enough it starts charging so let's take a look at some of the similarities and differences like we mentioned they follow the same standard that's great right now the costs are about the same this guy cost me about 55 bucks this one cost about 60 your availability is limited and that's really going to drive your prices some differences this is a very glossy very slippery surface and as you can tell it is a wedge we talked about this before in our hands-on with this device that means if you've got a slippery device like a nexus 4 and you set it on there it's going to slide right off as you can see it doing now eventually it's going to stop charging you're gonna wake up in the morning and you're not gonna have a charged phone and that's not very cool a couple ways around that first of all you can get the bumper for your nexus 4 you pop that on and it doesn't slide much anymore or you can do what I've been doing and that's take your bumper stick it under there like that and it works great not the intended purpose but ok so it's goofy over here on the Nokia it's a lot smaller and because it's smaller it's a little bit more difficult to position the phone onto it and have it charge now this is not the intended device for this charger but because it is a Qi standard any Qi standard phone should work one nice thing about this in addition to its more compact sizes it's got little raised and somewhat grippy ring in the middle so when you put your device on there it does have some level of grip you can see I'm holding that at somewhat of an angle if I can get that better on camera for you and it's it's all done pretty well I mean it's not perfect but and there just just proved my point but hey it grips a lot better it doesn't slide off I've never had that problem how do they perform that's where things get really interesting both of these charge wirelessly charging wirelessly takes a little bit more time than charging via a hardwire how much longer over here on the Energizer it's usually about ten percent longer to it to get a full charge I mean that's okay because the only place that I use is is here at home and or rather f-d-a pocket now home studio in Utah but I'm just leaving it there overnight I have plenty of time this is the one that I have at the remote office and it just doesn't like to charge you can see I've got a little charging indicator LED down at the bottom but I can't see that when my device is on top of it I don't know that it's charging unless that charging led the notification LED on the front of the Nexus 4 is on which it isn't all the time this will very frequently go into a rapid flash mode rapid flash means it's not charging right something's wrong you reset by taking off put it back this guy takes about an extra 10 percent longer its charge then this guy does the Energizer's a bit quicker than the Nokia at least with the Nexus 4 in my experience the the Nokia charger just isn't quite as good now that's because it's a lot smaller I believe it probably has a smaller inductive coil then the Energizer version does though I haven't torn them down to verify that it just seems like there's a smaller target space for you to try and hit next if you're using the bumper for your Nexus 4 you're going to run into a little bit of a problem because it tries to fit right over the edges so if you get one edge up and one edge off you're not necessarily going to have that connection so when you're using the know if you try and use just regular like that now of course if you have a Nokia phone like the Lumia 920 that has this t inductive charging built-in or I pronounced it wrong again how about that this Qi charging built-in this is the device that you want for it and it works great other devices that also support the standard possibly not so much in summary I like them both I like the Energizer a bit better I hate the fact that it's a wedge and the phone slides off of it but I would still go and buy each one of these again or rather I would buy either one of them again if I were you I probably wouldn't buy both I'd have one in one location and one in another have one at your you know your day job and have one at home so that you can just keep your phone topped off and charged up whenever you want you don't have to worry about plugging and unplugging you just set it down and you don't have to worry about it really the technology is very cool I like it quite a bit I think we're going to see more and more of this wireless charging as days and weeks and months go on but now I want to know what you think have you tried wireless charging if so what are your experiences what chargers have you used let us know in the comments over at pocketnow.com while you're at it why not share this video if you liked it with your friends on Facebook Twitter and Google+ we're in all three places and if you want to follow me on Twitter I'm at Joe Levi for pocket now showing off wireless chargers thanks for watching