Wireless charging is not a feature that is considered important for smartphones. All flagship smartphones tend to have it these days, and every Galaxy flagship since the Galaxy S6 has supported wireless charging as well. However, the feature never made it big in the mid-range and budget segments.
Wireless charging has never been seen on a non-flagship Galaxy smartphone. Samsung's Galaxy A smartphones did offer water and dust resistance, a feature that's usually reserved for flagships as well, at one point, but wireless charging has always been exclusive to the top-end Galaxies. Even water and dust resistance was scrapped once Samsung started focusing on more important specs to keep its Galaxy A series relevant when Chinese manufacturers started eating away at its market share.
The lack of wireless charging on Samsung's mid-range and budget smartphones hasn't really affected their sales. But with Apple's $400 iPhone SE 2 recently announced with wireless charging as one of its key features, we have been wondering: Should Samsung also start offering wireless charging on more affordable devices? Is it an important feature in your eyes, or is it a novelty that you can live without, especially if it means a device can offer better specs in other areas?
We'd love to know what you think, so cast a vote in the poll below, then expand on your answer down in the comments section!
Poll Results: Our poll results are in, and it turns out that the majority of our voters (47%) wouldn't sacrifice the affordability of their mid-range and budget phones for the comforts of wireless charging. It'd be cool if the feature was there, but it's not a necessity. Meanwhile, 25% of our voters think it's better if Samsung would focus on improving other specs rather than adding wireless charging to these device categories. Trailing not too far behind, 20% of voters would definitely want wireless charging on budget/mid-range phones, while 7% don't really care either way.
