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Verizon and HTC offer Thunderbolt extended battery, give your phone dumps...

Though never confirmed by Verizon, it seems likely that battery life (or more accurately, the lack thereof) played a part in the series of delays preceding the Thunderbolt's launch. To combat this...

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LG gets official with WCP-700 Wireless Charging Pad, fails to provide pricing

So, there's good news and bad. Naturally, we're going to start with the former. A month after we spotted this character sneaking around at Mobile World Congress, LG has finally taken the (official)...

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Energizer makes single-device Inductive charger for singles looking to...

Standardized inductive charging with the Qi standard is a beautiful thing, but previously Energizer's only charging pad had room for not one but two devices. If your independently-minded smartphone...

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Google HQ gets juiced with Plugless Power EV charging unit

We've seen it adorned with a giant Honeycomb and an oversized Gingerbread man, and now Google's bringing a more practical addition to its Mountain View campus -- specifically, a Plugless Power EV...

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Mobee's Magic Bar brings inductive charging to your Apple bluetooth keyboard...

The wise folks who brought us the inductive Magic Charger for the Magic Mouse are now back with a new trick up their sleeves. This time we have the Mobee Magic Bar, which can energise either an Apple...

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BMW and Siemens partnering for wireless-charging EVs, cutting the cord this May

Back at CES we were dazzled by Fulton Innovation's vision of the future of wireless power, which included an inductively-charged Tesla Roadster. Now, someone's actually making it a reality. Siemens...

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HTC Thunderbolt inductive charging back appears in Verizon online store, sort of

While not a complete mess in terms to battery life, Verizon's HTC Thunderbolt certainly doesn't win any awards in the longetivity department. As we'd mentioned a while back, help is near with at least...

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Meet Power Matt, Powermat's new pun-based superhero ready to answer your tech...

The biggest problem with modern society? A lack of good super villains. Seriously, today's superheroes are getting flabby from sitting around, twiddling their powerful thumbs. Look at poor Power Matt...

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Droid Charge to revive its battery via induction, completes Verizon's...

After many unexplained delays, Verizon's Droid Charge has coaxed many anxious consumers toward the edge of their seats, but we've now uncovered a tidbit that's sure to drive these folks up the wall --...

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HTC Thunderbolt inductive charging back hits FCC, makes life with LTE a...

That inductive-charging backplate for the HTC Thunderbolt just hit the FCC, which means keeping the battery-devouring device juiced is about to get a little less inconvenient. Instead of having to...

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Power Matt joins the Wireless Power Consortium, gains the power of Qi

Powermat's Power Matt proclaimed his cord-cutting capabilities to the people while bearing a striking resemblance to Superman. And now, just as the Kryptonian joined the Justice League, Power Matt has...

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Droid Charge joins the wireless charging club, gets its own inductive battery...

An HTC Thunderbolt wireless charging cover might still be a no-show on Verizon's site, but in the case of the Droid Charge, things are much simpler. Big Red quietly started selling a Qi-compliant...

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Apple patent app sheds light on wireless charging dreams, NFMR love affair

Apple threw quite the wireless party by introducing PC Free and iCloud at yesterday's WWDC keynote, but it seems that the engineers in Cupertino may have even more tricks up their sleeve. Judging by a...

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Verizon stores struck by HTC Thunderbolt Wireless Charging Battery Cover

Solid as HTC's Thunderbolt may be from a software perspective, its battery life has proven to be less than striking -- unless you've been rocking it with that ultra-chunky extended battery. In...

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Droid 3 accessories leaked, Moto's new slider gets wireless charging back...

So, you've read the rumors, scoped out the leaks, and circled multiple dates on your calendar -- just to cover all of your Droid 3 bases. You can now add a catalog of accessories to the stack of intel...

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Mobile Miscellany: week of July 11, 2011

Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of July 11, 2011: Samsung launched an ad campaign for the Infuse 4G which claims its colors are "so good, they...

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Powermat accompanies MyTouch 4G Slide at retail launch, or so the...

If you've already misplaced the charging cable for your MyTouch 4G Slide, then it's time to hustle back to your local T-Mobile retailer, where the new QWERTY handset is joined at its in-store launch...

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Evatran's Plugless Power wireless EV charger gets smaller, conscripts Chevy...

When it comes to technology, the old adage of "bigger is better" died a long time ago, so it's not a surprise to see "smaller is smarter" thinking apply to products and prototypes across the board....

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Apple's inductive charging patent application finally puts its earbuds to...

How seriously is Apple considering the possibility of adding inductive charging to its line of iOS devices? Seriously enough to submit some crudely drawn images to the USPTO, at least. The company's...

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Droid Bionic loses FCC confidentiality, gets updated with pics and user manual

When it rains, it pours, and the latest in the torrential downpour of Droid Bionic news comes straight from the FCC itself: we've got a manual. The user's guide starts by confirming the usual...

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