Finally, Pixel 10 Ends Android's Magsafe Envy With Its New Pixelsnap Feature

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Google conscionable announced its caller lineup of Pixel phones , nan Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL, but alternatively than complete creation overhauls, they're refreshed versions of nan 9 bid (and look fundamentally identical). 

Instead, we get a fistful of supporting package and hardware features for nan 10, including 1 that Pixel users person been waiting for a (very) agelong time: Pixelsnap, a magnetic Qi2 wireless charging characteristic resembling Apple's MagSafe.

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That's right. Finally, Android is invited to nan magnetic threat party, pinch nan Pixel 10 being nan first Android to support wireless charging pinch a magnetic threat and nan Qi2 charging standard. Google is launching Pixelsnap alongside 3 accessories to start, pinch an full ecosystem of branded accessories coming down nan road.   

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Since nan exertion present is based connected nan Qi2 wireless charging standard, immoderate of nan MagSafe accessories antecedently marketed for iPhones will activity connected nan Pixel 10. This opens up a ton of options for Android users who were antecedently relegated to workarounds and third-party products with varying degrees of success. 

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) announced its pursuit of a standardized strategy for Apple and Android devices arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2 years ago, but magnetic Qi2 charging exertion built into nan phones has been sorely missing from Android devices for years.  

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This is contempt nan truth that Androids were nan first to connection wireless charging complete 10 years ago, but person since been outpaced by nan iPhone's MagSafe feature, which has spawned an full ecosystem of products from wallets to chargers to different accessories.

Google's branded products releasing coming see nan Pixelsnap ringing guidelines for $29, which conscionable props your telephone up connected a aboveground and acts arsenic a secondary grip, nan Pixelsnap charger that snaps to nan backmost of nan telephone but has a wired relationship for $39, and a combo charger pinch a guidelines for $69. 

You tin expect a big of caller products successful nan Pixelsnap ecosystem soon, including everything we spot from MagSafe products for illustration car mounts, grips, wallets, and different unsocial accessories. 

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All of nan caller Pixel 10 models will support Pixelsnap wireless charging, reaching speeds of up to 25W, nan Qi2 modular for some iPhones and Android devices.  

For Apple, this intends losing its mostly marketplace stock successful nan MagSafe accessory category, since galore of nan devices that were antecedently marketed for nan iPhone will now activity connected nan Pixel 10. If further Android models unfastened up to this characteristic (and they astir surely will), it will nary longer beryllium a trading constituent unsocial to nan iPhone.