Enabling connectorless Smartphones

Since the early days of mobile telephony products, industrial designers have had an objective to design products with seamless surfaces, hoping to avoid connectors altogether. For product reliability engineers and production yield optimization, connectors have been a significant headache over generations of products. Connectors have been the top category of mobile phone failure mechanisms for ages.

Qi has been available for more than a decade now. Qi Certified chargers are available in a wide range of price points and product designs to support a wide range of user requirements. With the next steps in Qi evolution, users will see more consistent performance and smoother user experience. These improvements will enable smartphone manufacturers to rely on Qi as the best way to energize their products and the time of the last connector in the smartphone surface will be over.