- A while back I did a video on the best
Qi wireless chargers that you could get.
And I'll link that below if you guys wanna check that out.
But there were a bunch of really cool chargers on there
but they weren't terribly inexpensive.
So it got me wondering...
What is the cheapest I could get a Qi charger for?
Like 10 bucks?
Under 10 bucks?
So I scoured the web to see if I could find any of these,
and I managed to find a few on Amazon
that I've ordered and I've messed with,
and they work really well and they're inexpensive.
And I also found some in a place that I probably should have
thought of in the first place for inexpensive Qi chargers.
China.
Now for the ones that I found in China,
a lot of the times the shipping cost was
more than the cost of the charger.
So I basically ordered a bunch of them,
had them all shipped to me,
tested them, made sure they worked as advertised first off.
That they were decent build quality,
the price and everything all kind of matched up.
And I picked five that were my favorite.
And then I basically had to figure out a way to make it so
that if you guys wanted them you could get them without
having to pay the crazy shipping fees
and or waiting weeks to get them like I did.
But we'll get to more of that a bit later.
So first up let's start with the Chinese ones.
We have what we'll call the Qi charging disk style one.
I dunno. China.
This one though is made of a clear plastic
and has a rubberized circle atop to stop
your phone from sliding off.
It's available in black and white
and comes with a micro USB cable but no charger.
By the way most of the ones on this list
don't come with an AC adaptor.
It's probably a way of them keeping the cost down.
And I personally don't mind that much
because I always have AC charger somewhere.
Next we have this one which we'll call
the Qi charging disk style two.
It's smaller than the first but has the same specs basically
and comes in black and blue and orange and white.
Now along with charging my iPhone X just fine,
I also kinda liked that it just
disappears under the device basically.
Which is just like a clean look to me.
Now the last standard disk shaped one
from China that I tested and liked,
was this wooden one that I liked
basically because it was wooden.
And I just thought that looked cool.
Now all these so far are standard Qi charging speed.
But I wanted to actually see if there were a few fast
Qi chargers that I could find over in China
that were not crazy expensive and also actually worked.
And I ended up finding two!
This one holds the device upright
and supports fast Qi charging and
I tested it with my Galaxy Note 8.
And then this one for a different look
that holds the device upright that I like,
it disappears kind of behind the phone, which is cool,
as I mentioned I'm a fan of that,
is also fast charge capable.
Now for the ones I found on Amazon that
you can find with Prime shipping that makes them cheap,
about the same price as the Chinese ones,
some of them, is the A look Qi charger.
Which retails on Amazon for $9.99
with free Prime shipping as I mentioned.
And in a lot of these it's plain thin disk
that you use your current AC adaptor with.
You lay your phone on it and
it'll work with phone cases that aren't too thick.
Next we have the Yootech Qi charger which is
similarly specced but I like the fact that is a more unique
triangular shape for those that like that look better.
And also has less logos on it too.
It also not a fast Qi charger,
it doesn't include the AC adaptor,
and is around $13 with free Prime shipping.
And finally from the Amazon crew we have the Omotan charger
which again is that same slim disk shape with the same specs
as the other non-fast charging ones.
The thing that I liked about it,
besides it's $13 price tag with free Prime shipping,
is the fact that it comes in black and also gold.
So just another option style wise should you want it.
There you go.
These were the cheapest Qi chargers that worked.
I found other ones by the way,
that were cheaper but they sucked,
that I could find on the web.
So for the Amazon ones I just put links below
for you guys to go find those on Amazon.
Now for the Chinese ones there are links below as well,
but the only way I could get this so obviously
you didn't have to pay the exorbitant shipping costs
and wait three to six weeks for it to show up,
is I actually ordered a bunch of them myself
and I put them in my store that I have on my website.
So you guys can go there and purchase
them there if you're interested.
Obviously full disclosure I do make a very small amount,
I mean these are very cheap things so a very small amount,
if you do buy them from the shop.
But I figured it was worth the risk of me stocking them
just to kinda try to help you guys out if you guys
wanted to maybe Qi your entire house for super cheap.
And then also of course any money that is made
will go to the channel and help support this.
So I appreciate it.
But yeah, totally up to you guys.
Hope that that was helpful in some way
for anybody out there looking to get
into this Qi charging thing,
but wanna do so for less than the cost
for their normal charging solutions.
There you go guys.
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