The next standard for wireless phone chargers will be based on Apple's MagSafe technology. Yes, for Android too.
Why hasn't Apple invented this yet?!
Qi2, the no-nonsense successor to all the “wireless” Qi chargers in use today, will essentially just be Apple’s MagSafe. It enables faster charging, wastes less power and, according to the Wireless Power Consortium’s press release, “won’t shorten battery life or damage a user’s phone.”
"MagSafe is so good that it's apparently becoming the new standard for Qi charging devices. That's a plus, since you don't have to carefully place your phone on a charging pad," Apple journalist Dan Moren writes on his Six Colors blog. "It also suggests that other devices and accessories that want to advertise Qi compatibility will also be MagSafe/iPhone compatible."
You can already charge an iPhone using an inductive charging station, which the industry has convinced us to call “wireless.” However, there’s a cable running to a USB charger somewhere, and you have to place your device on the charging station.
