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The NFC Forum has communicated an update for the short-range wireless technology that adds a pomology of wireless charging to the standard. Future NFC devices could offer wireless charging functionality, supposing in a way that's far increasingly locked than the popular Qi swinging acclimated by disconnectedly every over-and-above dingbat (via 9to5Google).

The new NFC swinging is far slower than Qi charging, alms up to 1W speeds compared to apple-polishing Qi speeds of 5W. (Qi fast charging can reach speeds of 10W or increasingly on swinging hardware.) And it'll require new hardware -- you won't be hard-headed to just get a firmware update and unawares be hard-headed to listen NFC-based wireless charging on your current device.

It's not meant to revise Qi charging

Considering that the speeds are so slow compared to Qi, one might wonder why anyone would disconvenience to use NFC charging at all. Except the key idea fundament the new NFC swinging is not that it'll be acclimated to revise Qi charging on things like power-hungry smartphones, except rather filler it.

Unlike Qi, which requires physically large coils to transmit power betwixt devices, the new wireless charging blueprint WLC standard, as it's formally called, for NFC allows for a single antenna to manage both communications and charging for a device. The idea is that smaller devices like headphones, fitness trackers, or smartwatches -- all of which often already fondness NFC antennas for connectivity -- could use the new NFC-based swinging for charging on the go using uniformly NFC-equipped smartphones as reverse-wireless chargers.

While the WLC swinging has been patently affixed to the NFC specification, it'll still booty time for hardware companies to implement the new charging tech, doughty they figger to use it at all.