The OnePlus 8 Pro is OnePlus’s first phone with support for wireless charging and with it comes their first wireless charger. The OnePlus Warp Charge 30 Wireless Charger has a vertically-standing design which means your phone is propped up while charging.
The charger is capable of charging the OnePlus 8 Pro from 0 to 50% in just 29 minutes. It also has support for other devices with Qi/EPP compatibility, charging them at up to 10W (5W and 7.5W supported too). Unfortunately, the wireless charger has a massive design flaw that will make it really annoying to use.
OnePlus has designed the charger in such a way that the cable that connects the charger to the adapter is not removable. What this means is that you can’t detach the adapter from the rest of the body.
You may be wondering why anyone will want to do so but if you need to pass the cable through the cable hole which most desks have, you can’t. The adapter is too big to pass through which means your attempt at cable management just went out the window. The image below shared on Twitter by Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica should help you better understand.
This big ass power brick isn't going to fit through any wire management holes you might have in a desk or something.
All to save a few cents on a USB port, I guess. pic.twitter.com/pryKR9Ob46
— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) April 14, 2020
For a company that hammers on design, this was poorly thought out.
If you do not mind the design flaw, you can grab the OnePlus Warp Charge 30 Wireless Charger for $69.95 on top of the $899/$999 you are paying for the phone. It has a built-in fan and also has a customizable bedtime mode that charges the phone at 10W rather than 30W. It also has foreign object detection, overheating protection, overcurrent protection, and overvoltage protection.
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