Nomad’s Base Station Pro wireless charger looks to succeed where AirPower failed
Apple’s AirPower wireless charger was one of the company’s most high-profile failures ever, but in the wake of its cancellation, plenty of companies have been trying to swoop in to fill the gap that Apple left. The latest is Nomad, whose new Base Station Pro wireless charger promises to offer the kind of versatile charger that Apple couldn’t.
The big promise of AirPower was a wireless charger that didn’t need any exact placement — just drop up to three devices anywhere on the pad, and they would charge. That’s exactly the thing that Nomad says its achieved with the Base Station Pro, which, instead of the usual three coils that you’d typically see on a triple-device wireless charger, features an 18-coil matrix.
To pull this off, Nomad...