iPhone Wireless Charger Takes Swipe At Pre Touchstone

Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6:40 am 
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Along with the keyboard, there’s one major advantage the Palm Pre has over the iPhone, and that’s the fancy Touchstone wireless charger. Throw the Pre at the desktop pebble and it sticks, via magnetic magic, and charges without a plug.  Now, though, that lead has been erased, albeit in a slightly clunky way. WildCharge will sell you a gel-skin for your iPhone or iPod Touch which contains the necessary inductor conductive circuitry to provide the iPhone with power, which itself comes from a large, flat charger pad. The problem with an aftermarket solution is immediately apparent from the picture. It has a nubbin sticking out on the bottom. That, though, mightn’t be a problem for many.

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