Does the Air Dock Affect Battery Life?
The evolution of technology has been a miraculous thing to watch. From radio to television, from black-and-white to color pictures, from cords and outlets to wireless and Wi-Fi. Our technological world is on the move, and the only direction that’s seen is up.
Our technology has made our lives convenient with better access. We have to ability to do all our work on our smartphones and we have tablets that are easier to carry around with us than a laptop. But with improvements come questions, such as: how will we keep all these gadgets charged?
It used to be that you would have to carry around your charger with you just in case your phone or tablet ran out of battery, and they always seemed to run out of juice at the most inconvenient times. Not anymore. Everything else has gone wireless — why not our phone chargers as well? With a wireless phone dock you won’t have the frustration of an extra cord to plug into your phone anymore. It’s the time of the Air Dock.
The Air Dock is a wireless phone charger that mounts in a car, or anywhere else you want to stick it. It holds the back of your phone with the help of micro-suction foam and magnets. The micro-suction foam is like a whole bunch of miniature suction cups that stick to the glossy back of your phone. The magnets are strategically placed in the dock to align with metal discs that are embedded in the back of your wireless phone to help the phone stay in place and get a charge.
The main concern for most people is if the battery life will be affected by the magnets if they leave their phone on the wireless dock. It used to be that you would be in a pickle if you overcharged any device, and the phone’s battery life would decrease significantly over time. Also, magnets have never been good for batteries. Not so with the Air Dock. There are no long- or short-term effects from leaving your wireless device charging, though it is still better to use your battery significantly and then charge it back up to 100 percent. The magnets are also there to hold your phone in place and help it get the charge — thus having no effect on your battery life for long-term plans.
Taylor Hatch is a writer at Fusion 360 Agency in Salt Lake City, where she covers technology, cars and other topics for local businesses.