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S5 PWRcard Hands-On: Wireless Charging for the Galaxy S5

2014-05-15
so we've reviewed the Galaxy s5 twice now and it has pretty much everything built-in except wireless charging so how do you get wireless charging on your Galaxy s5 I'm Taylor Marcum this is PocketNow and this is the s5 power card so as we've seen twice now the Samsung Galaxy s5 comes with practically everything onboard you have an infrared blaster you have bluetooth 4.0 Wi-Fi b/g/n a see we have IP 67 ingress protection against water and dust you have a little bit of everything in this phone but the one thing it's missing the one thing it's missing is wireless charging and probably enough that's not impossible to achieve unlike with some other phones we have this right here which is called the s5 power card we want to thank our friends at clove before we get too far into this for providing us with a power card and testing it out and seeing how it works so if you want a power card of your own for your s5 or something else maybe a device or accessories for your phone check out clove that code at UK for all of your smartphone accessories but without any more delay let's get into this power card and see what it's about and see how it works with the galaxy s5 so the packaging as you can see is very very simple it's just a little envelope really a little tape here luckily I remember my knife so we can get into this just cut the tape open pop this tab open and inside you have just this there's nothing else just this little key card or Qi compatible component that sticks to your Galaxy s5 so we pop the battery door off very simple and basically you're just going to connect these two connectors with the pins underneath the battery door so the two connectors on the keypad to the connectors to the left of the battery and that's it alright so it took us a couple tries to get it to actually fit but once you do the battery door just pops on as usual it's got a little bit of a bulge to it it feels just a hair thicker than it normally does it's not noticeable to the eye that you can feel it maybe it's just me maybe I don't know but it's there and let's see if this thing can charge wirelessly now so this is the Nexus charging orb the one that came out shortly after the Nexus 4 and it is Qi enabled so we should theoretically just be able to drop the galaxy s5 on the orb and it should charge start charging immediately or close to immediately gives us a little chime it says we're wirelessly charging and that's pretty much it it's a pretty good alternative to not having wireless charging built in and we have to say that foam salesman has a pretty good alternative here for your Galaxy s5 so thanks for watching and stay tuned for more folks thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video be sure to click the thumbs up button below and of course subscribe to the channel to see more videos like this one in the future we want to thank our friends one more time at Clover letting us try the power card for the s5 and of course follows in all the usual places Twitter Facebook and Google+ and pocket now until the more you come find me on Twitter of Caspar 10 and I will see you next time
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