It was aimed at Huaweii because it's Chinese and because of the spying part, but I'm not aware of there ever being proof. Huawei at this point is a global smartphone powerhouse, but this entirely kills their plans to dominate the markets outside of China.
It's annoying when you think about the double standards, because we know that American companies work with the NSA and other western intelligence agencies to provide backdoors into their products, yet it's not fine when China does it (which as far as I'm concerned is less of an issue since China is further and we're largely out of their reach). People in China are still buying American-backdoored Microsoft products or Google phones, yet at the tiniest suspicion that a Chinese product in America is doing the same thing people lose their shit and go nuclear.
I have several wireless charging pads. I use the official fast charging Samsung one, a tiny non-fast charging Samsung one of the S7 era (I like this one the least unless I'm traveling, since it's the smallest) and.. several Ikea ones, which were like $15 each. They aren't fast charging but I don't need that considering one is by my desk, one is next to the sofa in my living room, an additional one is in the bedroom etc, so my phone is almost always on one of the pads when at home. They work perfectly well and blend in well with the furniture, and they come with their own power adapter, which makes them an incredible deal imho:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90381986/
There is a double standard but I think there was a story recently about curbing back the NSA's power and presence in tech. I could be wrong and I'd need to look it up but it was on rAndroid I believe. Or rTech.
I think the whole world distrusts the Chinese. lol I know Indians do, but it goes beyond just tech. The US seems to be lukewarm and distant towards the Chinese despite abusing them for the manufacturing. I'm sure Europe is the same.
I know their tech is everywhere and was flourishing but now people seem to have palpable concerns about spying. It seems we're OK with our government doing it but draw the line at others doing it. And while the US isn't innocent, there doesn't seem to have been a unique scandal involving US companies. Although Facebook and other social media are American companies and have been catching a ton of shit since 2016. I think it just comes down the US being seen as the lesser of the two evils between the US and China. People probably get suspicious because the Chinese are so secluded in their other affairs except for their tech.
But I think this is a retaliatory slap to China for their decades of stealing IPs from other countries' companies. This probably has nothing to do with spying but more just to yank the leash on them for their past actions.
I had one poor experience with wireless charging on my S7 where I had put it on the charger overnight within the first month of owning it and in the morning it was burning hot and barely charged from when I had put it on. I think it went from 20-60% in those eight hours. I think that might have fucked with my battery too since just a few months later, within one year of ownership, I was at 67 or 63% total battery capacity. I blamed fast charging, wireless charging, etc. But I think it was that event where it was on a wireless charger all night and probably wasn't hitting all the sensors properly and would connect-disconnect during that whole time. So just eight hours of charging for a few seconds and then not, alternating for that time.
So I've been wary but the S10 subreddit has been big on wireless charging pads, as is my friend who has an S9, and one of the big reasons they state is that they don't want to wear out the charger port. They said the newer phones have them "integrated" or something, and are not easily replaceable, if at all. So I may look to that. I'll try the wireless pad I got from a Samsung Pay giveaway, the very same one I suspect dicked my S7 battery, and I'll probably stick to that. I don't think I need a FC wireless as I've disabled fast charge on my phone for wired charging. It's an irrational fear/paranoia from my S7 days, I know, but I'd be pissed if I got fucked again.
Been getting 7+ hours of SOT on LTE now and probably charge my phone every other day. Once it hits 20%ish, I'll charge it back up to 70 or 80, just not 100%. I think there's science behind that lol. Many articles state that so I'll do it. I seriously can't drain this battery if I tried and I didn't even go disable-happy with the apps this time. I think I have 3 or 4 battery cycles in 10 days of owning it, which is huge. If I didn't stream video as much, I could do probably almost three days.
Still waiting on the case from Spigen. Amazon fucked up the delivery so it might be a few more days despite the one day delivery from Prime. Same with the Anker car charger I got.
My S7 plug was Fast Charge cable too, obviously, but is it supposed to be the same as the S10's? I think they both have 2.0A output, which I'm assuming is the Fast Charge speed. The speeds haven't increased in three-plus years?
