Best "wireless" car charger?
Samsung wireless car charger. By far its the best one I've had so ZF3. There is release button for the clamp so you can remove the phone whenever you want. It clamps onto vent pretty tightly.
Samsung car mount/charger a must have
Samsung Wireless CAR Charger. has anyone used one? it mounts on the Vents right? read comments that vents break
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I'm looking for a good wireless car charger.
I've tried a lot of them, and they either don't have dual charging coils to easily allow rapid charging, or the ones with dual charging coils squeak and rattle a lot. Plus they don't hold the phone perfectly stationary and have some "give" around the suction cup on the dash, which causes the phone to swivel slightly to the left or right.
I have one right now that keeps the phone perfectly stationary with no unintended swivelling, and it rapid charges perfectly through my UAG case, and it has that nice electronic/automatic open and close feature, but it rattles like crazy. Super-annoying.
Does anyone have some good recommendations?
Picked up the Samsung official car charger/mount for the Fold series. Honestly I wasn't expecting much, but after using reward points it was like $30 so I was ok if it ended up being jank. I was pleasantly surprised that it's a pretty awesome mount with a ton of versatility.
First is mounting the mount. In my pics I adapted the mount to my ProClip specific vehicle mount, it took a little bit of drilling and getting longer screws but no big deal. The Samsung mount only comes with a vent clip which seems a bit weak, reviews on their site complain of it breaking easily, but I never used it. I does have a 17mm ball so should interface with Garmin and other standard ball type mounts.
The mount is made to auto open and close, that's right no more cranking arms shut on your phone. It has an IR sensor which senses the phone nearby and opens its arms, after you put the phone in the arms close. The closure isn't particularly tight, you can slightly move the phone forward and upwards, but in driving it seemed more than tight enough, even large bumps didn't make the phone move.
To take the phone out there are buttons which release the arms, although it's loose enough where you could just pull your phone out. I also noticed that it seemed to keep a charge for a single arm release if the vehicle power was off, very convenient if you turn your car off before opening the arms.
The basic use is with the Fold open and in landscape mode, unfortunately the arms aren't narrow enough to use it in portrait mode (which is how I prefer it) unless you swivel the entire mount. Swiveling the mount isn't an issue, it just doesn't look as clean.
You can also use the phone folded, both portrait and landscape. I say landscape because to me this is the best way if you want the mount to look clean. I don't use my phone for much when in the car because I have wireless Android Auto, but it's always nice if you need to glance at something quickly.
Charging for Samsung phones is 9W (edited as fastest wireless charge is 15W so there is some trade off).
Anyway I see a lot of asks here for car mounts, thought this would be a good review.