If your phone supports wireless charging, then you might want to buy a wireless charger. It won’t be any quicker, but it’s a nice way of making your bedside table look a little less cluttered with wires. We have a guide right here where we recommend a $30 model from RavPower. It’s great, you should buy it.
This $780 leather-covered wireless charger isn’t meant for you
The non-leather version costs just $60
The non-leather version costs just $60
Image: Berluti
What you shouldn’t do is buy Native Union’s latest wireless charger, which it produced in partnership with the French fashion house Berluti. It’s a leather-covered version of the 10W Qi Drop Wireless Charger, but it costs $780 rather than the regular $60. It doesn’t even come with a power adaptor, you just get a (leather-covered) USB-C to USB-A cable.
I’m not here to shame anyone who wants a nice leather finish for their tech accessories. Dan’s search for the perfect leather iPhone X case is well-documented, and a great read, and I have a lot of time for Dieter’s attempts to manually age a new leather case. But there’s a limit, and for me that limit comes at around $50. Sorry.
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