Anker Wireless Charger, PowerWave II Pad

Small size and easy to use.

Works fine with Moto Edge 2024 through soft case. Seems to charge at high rate (so I believe the 15W claim). No complaints.

Purchased a Moto Edge 2024 and a soft case. Purchased this wireless charger. (I’m a first-time wireless charging user, so didn’t know what to expect.)

This charger seems to charge at a high rate, so I believe the 15W claim.

The charger works with slightly off-center placement of the phone (easier with my case because of the lip around the camera lenses).

Determined experimentally that the charger will tolerate at least a couple more millimeters of case thickness. I did not experiment to determine EXACTLY how thick of a case would be tolerated–I just did enough experimentation to determine that I could buy a thicker case if one becomes available.

Just lay your phone on the pad and it starts charging immediately. I have 3 of these devices in my home. One in Family, one in Living Room, one in my bedroom. After working all day and using my phone, I find myself sitting in the Family room or the Living room to unwind. I just lay my phone on the charging pad, while watching TV and it starts charging. It’s laying right beside me, so I still see incoming texts and notifications. I might lift it up and check a text / reply to the text, and then lay the phone back onto the charging pad. At night time when I’m ready to go to bed, I just lay my phone on the charging pad in my bedroom and it finishes charging overnight. Next morning I awake and grab my fully charged phone and leave for work. I used to hate having to stop and plug my phone in to get it to charge. With this item you just quickly lay the phone on the charging pad and it’s charging automatically. Charges right thru your protective phone case if you have one. I’ve had one of these for 2 years and the other 2 I bought within last few months. All 3 are working perfectly. I recommend this item.

This Anker puck charger works well: It understands the phone capability to charge, applies it automatically, then turns off when the phone is full of electrons, photons, quarks and free radicals, or whatever these thins load into phones.

Our two other Anker proximity chargers are stand types and work well but do not pack as well as the puck for traveling.

I tried a wireless charger of the upright style. I just didn’t warm up to it. It was a little bit clumsy setting in in the cradle to charge and sometimes it seemed like it was charging, but very slowly – maybe it was not in the charger exactly right? Anyway, I was soured on wireless chargers.

I really don’t like having to plug in my phone to charge – I have a case with a little flap over the charging port and I have to flip that out of the way and then plug the charger in. Now I must say with USB C not having a top and bottom to the connector is nice, but it’s still needs to be plugged in.

Well I love this charger! I love not having to plug in, but rather just set the phone on it! How easy! My wife and I each have cases for our phones and they charge just fine. I’m impressed that just setting the phone on the charging disk, with it pretty much in the middle of the phone seems to give me a fast, reliable charge.

We have it plugged in by the desk in our kitchen and anytime we need a charge we just set it on the charging disk – couldn’t be easier.

One caveat – “Fast wireless charging” is not as fast as “Super fast plugged in charging”. I think it’s a limit of the technology. If you need your phone charged as fast as possible, you’ll need to plug it in. We find that using the wireless charger allows us to “top off” our phones and we really don’t need that super fast “emergency” charge.

It does fast charge, but not maximum charging speed for high end modern phones such as Samsung Note 10+ or newer. For example: With the factory charger, if your phone says 45 mins until full charge, this charger would take a little longer, like maybe 60-70 mins, or somewhere in that range. But it does charge through most cases, and is great for bedside so you don’t have to fumble around with a cord when you’re tired and dozing off. Build quality: The charging pad feels strong, sturdy, and looks like it’s decent quality. When traveling, it’s convenient to store because it’s easy to stick into a bag without having to worry about a USB connector accidentally getting bent. Speaking of which, the cord does not disconnect from the base or pad. It’s all one solid device. In other words, you can’t change the cord to a longer or shorter one, or use a factory plug to try to get faster charging. Overall, I’m happy with its performance and build quality, so I do think it’s a good buy. That is of course unless your situation is different than mine, and perhaps you need to change some of the things I’ve mentioned that aren’t interchangeable.