The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) this week announced the latest version of its Qi (pronounced “chee”) wireless charging specification, which provides three times the amount of power as the majority of in-market Qi charging products. In fact, the new 15w WPC wireless spec offers the same amount of power as many wired charging options available today for mobile phones. 

One of the biggest downsides of modern wireless charging is that it takes significantly longer to power up devices than traditional, wired charging cords. However, the new Qi spec could go a long way toward closing, even eliminating, that gap. For example, Samsung’s Adaptive Fast Charging cords are some of the faster mobile phone power options available, and they provide 15w, the same amount of energy as the new Qi spec, according to John Perzow, WPC’s vice president of market development.

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