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Use This Desk Lamp To Wireless Charge Your Old iPhone
I have an iPhone XR, which still to me seems like a relatively new model. But nope, I just checked and that means my phone is over three years old. Crazy how a pandemic messes with one’s sense of time. I blame that as well as the weird hiatus Apple took in numbering their iPhones before returning to form with the iPhone 11 in 2019. My point is that it is no surprise that my phone’s battery is starting to fail me. Specifically, it simply doesn’t charge. I plug it in and night only to find out in the morning that it was all for naught. This happens no matter what lightning cable I use, and I know it is not the cables’ fault, since they work flawlessly with my iPad and AirPods.
Since my phone needs to be charged in order to work properly, I was left with a few options. I could spend $800 on an iPhone 13, despite resolutely not needing any of the smartphone’s latest features. Or I could find some other way to get juice into my outdated model. I figured I would start with Option B. That led me to purchase this $27 desk lamp-cum-wireless charger.
I wasn’t 100% sure it would solve my problems, but at under $30 it was a chance I was willing to take. The mchatte LED desk lamp had the added bonus of, well, being a desk lamp, something I direly need at my home workstation now that it is getting darker earlier and earlier each night.
I am happy to report that this sleek little product did the trick. I simply place my iPhone on top of its base, and the lamp immediately registers the device and gets to work charging. This saves me all the time I used to spend constantly finagling the little cord into the iPhone port, trying to situate it just so. If I were Apple, I don’t think I would let inexpensive Chinese products like this on the market, since it cost them the better part of a thousand dollars.
The lamp feature is good too, as it has five different colors of light, though I find myself always using the cold white setting. For each color, you can adjust the brightness in gradients with a slide of your finger. All in all, the tech here works great, and it has the added benefit of having an attractive, English-literate listing unlike some other lamps on the market.