[Huawei Mate 20 Pro Accessories] kaibosh99:
Well, I ordered one of these from FastTech, and it arrived about a week ago. Amazingly quick shipping considering I bought about a dozen little el cheapo goodies and paid about $2 for the postage. The charging pad is genuine Huawei, in general anything on FastTech that outright claims to be genuine is. It came in a very nondescript tough plastic bag that held a white sealed box. Inside there is a meaningless tiny little pamphlet in Chinese, but why would you need any information anyway? As was mentioned, it doesn't come with a power supply - again, why would it? I crammed my official charging cable into it, works fine. The charging pad is quite a bit smaller than I expected, I guess it doesn't need to be anything more than it is - I would say about 2.75" in diameter and about half an inch thick. The surface is very 'grippy', I wish the TPU case that came with the phone was this sticky. Speaking of which, I throw my phone on the pad with the TPU case and it works fine. In fact, just in the name of science I just tried seeing how thick of material the charger would still work through, and it easily triggers through even 1/8" of paper - so this will work with *any* case that isn't made out of metal.

At first I thought that the placement was *extremely* finicky, because sometimes it seemed like it wouldn't trigger. I've learned since that it just takes a second or two sometimes no matter where you put it, so you just learn to trust it. The phone does have to be somewhat 'centered', but it isn't crazy specific. So, you plop your phone down and the nice green bubbly animation pops up with a pleasant sound, and the icon in the center shows that it is charging via lethal levels of radiation rather than safely through a wire. There is a very small LED under the lip of the pad, that lights up when it is charging. Obviously the LED on the phone will either be green or strobing for a notification while this is going on too. As far as charging speed goes, I haven't done any rigorous testing of any kind but it is most definitely not 'slow'. You put it down, and when you pick it up it has charged up enough that I have never thought "hmm, this is slow". Yeah, I know - real scientific. Oh, and the phone gets 'barely warm' when charging, and I do mean 'barely warm'. This is good, I've heard some combos out there result in a cooking hot phone - and that isn't good for anything.

Otherwise, not much to say. It is very, very nice not to have to plug my phone in - wearing out a charging port is an actual worry, and this way the bottom speaker isn't muffled to nothingness (a strange move, but when you take aggressive hyper efficient space and waterproofing into account it makes sense). One thing to mention, you obviously can't use your phone while it is charging. I mean you *could*, but you won't. If I had to gripe about anything, it is that the pad is a little thicker than I would like. It doesn't hurt anything, but if you have it teetering up on a high spot or something you will need to be a little wary about how you place your phone.

On a side note, not that anyone really 'needs' it in the real world, but don't forget we do have wireless charging in reverse. From reading up on it, the placement between two phones is *extremely* picky, and I would say that if both phones had a case it probably wouldn't work. The other thing they mentioned is that once you initiate a reverse charge, any movement between the two phones of any kind will break the connection - and it is a pain to get going again. Did you know we also have the option to charge something else via the Type C port? It is listed in the settings, I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere. That would be crazy useful - especially since we have SO much battery to spare. Think about it, you could charge wireless earbuds, bluetooth speakers, whatever. No idea at what rate it would charge (theoretically it could be fairly substantial) and of course the kind of cable you would need to do anything with this doesn't really exist... I am going to patch together a Type C to one of those 'multi-pronged charging ends', just to try this out. I have a very neat cable with one end that with one fixed end can fit both Micro-USB and Lightning ports - no one believes me, and honestly I didn't believe it myself at first either. When you eyeball it you think "now why aren't there more of these out there?"

Anyway, for the $20 this charging pad is a no brainer. It is legit, authentic, and works like a charm. One last thing - I swear I can feel the thing radiating from a foot away. I know that is 'impossible' given the inverse square law, but I'm not kidding.