Obviously, you’re not likely to buy Apple’s charger if you don’t already own, or plan to buy, an iPhone 12. That’s just not the case with the MagSafe. One of the things I like best about the Samsung charging stand is that it cradles your phone in an upright position, helping ensure that the contact points line up regardless of the phone’s size, as well as making it easier to check the time or your notifications if you happen to wake up in the middle of the night. Keeping the phones in the proper position is a challenge, too. And it can be tough to get the contact points on other phones lined up just right when you don’t have the magnetic connection to help you. Of course, that magnetic connection goes out the window if you are using the MagSafe on something other than an iPhone 12. That’s particularly important to keep in mind if you buy one of Apple’s MagSafe wallets, which uses the same magnetic connection to attach your ID, banking cards, and whatever else normally goes into your wallet to your phone. Apple warns that you should keep credit cards, security badges, passports, key fobs, and any other item that might have a magnetic strip or RFID chip away from the charger, because the magnet could damage them. You also don’t have to worry about a bump in the night breaking that connection, causing you to wake up to a dead phone the next morning.īut you do need to be careful with that magnet. If you don’t happen to have a spare USB-C adapter from another device laying around the house, you have to pay $20 extra for that.Īnd because there’s no way to disconnect the cord from the charging bed, you have to replace the whole device if the cord gets nicked.Īs the name implies, the charger attaches magnetically to all four iPhone 12 models, so you don’t have to worry about getting the contact points of your phone and charger lined up perfectly. So you have to keep an eye on the phone’s battery indicator.Īnd just like the new iPhones, it doesn’t include the wall adapter required to plug the cord into an outlet. The charging surface is so small that the diminutive iPhone 12 Mini completely eclipses it.īut, unlike some wireless chargers, this one doesn’t have a colored LED-light status indicator that lets you know when your phone is fully charged. That’s good news if you’re looking to cut down on clutter or searching for a device that’s easy to pack for travel. The MagSafe’s charging bed is the size and shape of a decent-sized cookie (bigger than an Oreo but smaller than anything I’d bake at home) and permanently connected to a cable a little over 3 feet long. In true Apple fashion, the design is clean and simple.
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By comparison, the Samsung charger fully powered the 11 Pro Max in 2 hours and 15 minutes and the S10 in 2 hours and 45 minutes. It took our testers a total of 5 hours and 22 minutes to fully charge the 11 Pro Max and 5 hours to power up the S10. While the MagSafe technically can do that, too, as Apple admits, it’s not nearly as fast at refueling anything outside the iPhone 12 family. The upside of Samsung’s device is that you can easily use it to charge myriad phone models. And after the first hour of charging, it also had the phone’s battery up to 50 percent. The Samsung charger was just a touch slower than the MagSafe, fully powering the 12 Pro in 2 hours and 45 minutes. Qi (pronounced “chee”) is an almost universal charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium. Like the MagSafe, it can produce up to 15 watts of power, but it’s designed to work with any Qi-compatible smartphone. To get a comparison, our experts recharged the phone using a Samsung stand charger, $80, that we had tested earlier this year. After that, the process slows down a bit, likely to put less strain on the battery and prolong its life. It’s worth noting that the charger performs faster right out of the gate filling the battery up 50 percent in an hour flat. As noted above, the MagSafe charger, which can kick out a maximum of 15 watts when connected to Apple’s 20-watt wall adapter (sold separately for $20), managed to take an iPhone 12 Pro from completely dead to fully charged in 2 hours and 37 minutes.
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