Quick Verdict The Google Pixel Stand is best matched with the new Google Pixel 3 or Google Pixel 3XL handsets, but even if you don’t own one of those, it’s a well-designed charger with a pleasingly minimalist design.

If you are interested in talking to your fellow enthusiasts about either the Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL, then check out the XDA forums below. Google pixel 3/3xl qi wireless charging stand white Personally, I think Google has taken a big risk here as the average user walks into a shop, looks at a spec list and the Pixels will lose out especially on paper with their single rear cameras.

For all the fuss that Apple made about wireless charging when it finally got around to adding it to its iPhone lines, you might be forgiven for thinking it was a radically new technology.

It’s been around via a number of standards for some years now, with many manufacturers such as Samsung offering it on most of its flagship phones.

Google used to offer it on its older Nexus line of handsets, but the Pixel 3 generation is the first of its Pixel phones to include Qi wireless charging.

Google being Google, it’s also introduced its own view on what a wireless charger should be in the form of the Pixel Stand, a Qi-compatible wireless charger with a few unique features.

Most wireless chargers are flat pads that you gently place your compatible handset upon, but as the name suggests, the Pixel Stand is a vertically oriented charger stand that puts any phone placed against it at a roughly 20 degree backwards leaning position.

The Pixel 3 phones it’s meant to compliment come in three shades, so it’s a little odd that the Pixel Stand is a white-only charging device.

That’s a little bit more than some of today’s better chargers, but I think it’s worth it if you take advantage of the extra features. Google pixel 3/3xl qi wireless charging stand white You might regularly come across breaks in the wire from using your cable so much, or you might eventually experience malfunction with the charging port.

A little colour variety wouldn’t have hurt Google any, but you’re stuck for choice in this regard. Still, the Pixel Stand has a design that’s unlikely to clash with anyone’s home decor, with smooth rounded corners and a delightful soft touch feel.

Is this charger worth it? The latest Nokia phones and accessories | Nokia phones I wasn’t surprised then when my Pixel 3 didn’t do a quick charge on there.

One truly bizarre bit of design is on the base, or to be precise, underneath it. The Pixel Stand is white, unless you tip it upside down, where it’s bright orange.

I have no idea why Google decided that the part of the Pixel Stand that you’ll only see when you’re setting it up for the first time needed a bit of colour.

Qi is a charging standard, and the whole point of having a standard is that every Qi charger should act like every other Qi charger.

The Pixel Stand charges up to 10W depending on the capabilities of the device you place on itand it’s predictably slower than using the cabled chargers provided with most phones, including the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL’s own provided chargers.

Still, it’s a pleasantly simple matter of placing your phone onto the Pixel Stand, and here it has an advantage not seen on too many other Qi chargers, even if you’re not using a Pixel 3 specifically.

The vertical orientation of its charging plate means that you’re extremely likely to get the Qi charging coil on your phone lined up perfectly first time.

With flat-base chargers, there’s often a lot of fiddling around to find the “sweet spot” for charging.

Predictably, if you do try to charge in landscape mode, you’ve got to fiddle around a lot more. While the Qi nature of the Pixel Stand means that it can’t help but charge everyone’s wireless charging capable handsets, the name does rather give away the fact that it’s designed specifically with Google’s new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL phones in mind.

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These include using the phone as a photo frame from your online Google Photos, naturallywith AI selection of your best photos. It’s astonishingly good at picking my best photos With a Pixel 3 docked, you can also set an ambient alarm to slowly raise the light level of the phone as your morning wake up approaches.

Again, not a killer feature on its own, but a lovely tweak that beats having your phone screen jump to full brightness as soon as your alarm kicks in.

The front-facing speakers and microphone on the Pixel 3 also mean that when it’s on the Pixel Stand, it’s pretty much a Google Home device for smart home operation.

Yes, it’s a little more pricey than competing 10W wireless chargers, but the quality design, ease of charge placement and additional Pixel-specific features make it a compelling choice.

If you’re using another phone, it’s a less compelling option, but not a bad one to speak of, especially given its vertical orientation which makes lining up for wireless charging a snap.

You can’t get the Pixel Stand’s Pixel 3-specific features on any other charger, but in terms of just wireless charging, you’ve got plenty of options thanks to the open nature of the Qi standard.

We reviewed a range of five different wireless chargers, any of which could charge the Pixel 3 or any other Qi-compatible phone here. While the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL go on sale in Australia from 1 NovemberGoogle’s own shipping estimates for the Pixel Stand suggest it’ll land here between 14 and 20 November The good 10W charging that’s easy to line up for most phones Photo frame and notification features for Pixel 3 phones.

The bad Only comes in white You can get basic Qi charging for less.

27.02.2020 – Excellent product and super easy to use. Do you have a favorite wireless charger? But if Google wants to win over the masses then its uninspiring hardware needs to catch up with its inspirational software by the time the Pixel 4 launches…. For a wireless charger, that’s quite good.