Thread: No Powermat inductive charging for N900 planned
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2010-07-28 , 16:47
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Originally Posted by SavageD View Post
Your right, n900 uses the same battery as the 5800 Xpress music....But then again, as you imply, the n900 would probably need a new back casing to support the battery...

Hopefully powermat would see the advantage and sell a new battery casing for the n900.
Yeah, the N900 BL-5J is used by the 5800 Express and X6, both of which will be supported by a Powerpak battery.

However since the back cover needs to include some sort of inductive coil and an electrical connection from the back cover to the battery there's a possibility that the "back cover" will be fully integrated with the battery (ie. one component) and thus bespoke for each device. That would mean producing a combined battery/back cover (ie. Powerpak) only for high volume devices, which the N900 probably isn't.

Then again, assuming the back cover and battery are indeed separate components why not just sell the inductive version of the BL-5J separately from the back cover, and charge a decent price for the N900 back cover that covers any cost of a relatively short run - they'll still make a nice profit selling lots of power mats!