Samsung and IKEA are jointly promoting wireless charging

Samsung and IKEA collaborating with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) guide us to a new era with a revolutionary and practical mobile charging option.

This will be the year that wireless charging goes mainstream, as both Samsung and Ikea announced within hours of each other that they will adopt the technology in a big way.

Both Samsung and Ikea, along with 200 companies including phone makers and car manufacturers, are members of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). Ryan Sanderson of AirCharge, a partner of the WPC, told IBTimes UK that the announcements, made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, have taken Xi wireless charging “to the edge of an acceleration phase”.

IKEA’s new wireless charging collection will be available from April 2015, first in Europe then in North America, and then all around the world.