The Samsung Galaxy Ring supports Qi2 charging, but there’s a catch
While the Samsung Galaxy Ring supports the new Qi2 charging standard, it doesn’t support magnetic charging.
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- The Samsung Galaxy Ring supports Qi2 charging according to a certification filing.
- Despite this, the Galaxy Ring’s charging case doesn’t magnetically attach to any Qi2 chargers or MagSafe accessories.
- This is because the case doesn’t have any magnets.
We’re almost two thirds of the way through 2024, and yet there’s only a single Android device that supports Qi2. Qi2, if you haven’t heard, is an evolution of the Qi wireless charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). The Qi2 standard was announced back in January 2023 and released in April 2023, but fast forward to today, and none of the major Android brands have released a Qi2-certified mobile device.
Or so we thought, until we learned that the Samsung Galaxy Ring is Qi2 certified. The Galaxy Ring is not only Samsung’s first smart ring product but also its first mobile device with Qi2 certification. We already knew from the launch event that the Galaxy Ring’s case can be wirelessly charged using Qi wireless charging, but we didn’t know until recently that the case is actually Qi2 certified. We learned this thanks to Samsung’s certification filing with the WPC, as shown below (H/T George Economo).
