Google’s Pixel 10 sure looks like it’ll support magnetic Qi2 charging

This decidedly looks similar a magnetic wireless charger.

Evidence is mounting that Google’s Pixel 10 bid volition enactment Qi2 wireless charging, including built-in magnets, yet offering a mainstream Android alternate to Apple’s MagSafe. The latest motion is simply a leaked representation of the Pixel 10 with what appears to beryllium a magnetic wireless charging puck attached to the back.

The leaked representation comes from the reliable leaker Evan Blass, and shows a agleam bluish Pixel 10 — the basal model, going by other renders we’ve seen truthful far — with what appears to beryllium a wireless charging puck attached magnetically to the back. It’s portion of a enactment of leaked images of the Pixel 10 phones, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A that corroborate erstwhile leaks. 

The puck is apt portion of the “PixelSnap” accessory enactment antecedently leaked by Android Authority, though we haven’t seen this circumstantial charger before. That leak, on with a separate study of a PixelSnap telephone case, near unfastened the anticipation that Google would trust connected magnets included successful telephone cases for magnetic wireless charging, overmuch similar Samsung has successful its S25, Z Fold 7, and Z Flip 7 handsets. Since this representation shows the charger attaching straight to the phone, it appears Google has alternatively followed Apple and included magnets successful the telephone itself.

Factor successful a abstracted Android Headlines leak claiming that the Pixel 10 enactment volition beryllium precise somewhat thicker and heavier than the erstwhile generation, and there’s expanding crushed to deliberation that Google has decided to opt for full, magnetic Qi2 support.

Qi2 is an industry-wide magnetic wireless charging modular based connected MagSafe, developed with Apple’s support. So acold lone a azygous Android telephone includes it, the HMD Skyline, though those caller Samsung flagships are certified Qi2 Ready since they necessitate a compatible lawsuit to proviso the magnets. Qi2 was precocious upgraded with up to 25W charging speeds, astatine which constituent the Wireless Power Consortium announced that “major Android smartphones volition articulation the Qi2 ecosystem.” It looks similar the Pixel 10 phones volition beryllium the first.