Using magnets with phones seem like a fun new tool, but in reality, the magnet is an adapter that can work on any phone and with any brand: the universal adapter that is here to save more than just money.
Magnetic Adapter Saves You Money
Half the fun of phones is the accessories that you can get with them. Everything from phone cases to holders, from headphones to grips. Unfortunately because of all the brands of phones, different sizes and constant upgrading from year to year, it’s virtually impossible to keep using accessories for a long time. The exception to that now is the magnetic grip which can be used from case to case, so while magnets won’t save your case, they will at least save you from re-buying grips.
But that is slowly changing, as we have seen with Bluetooth headphones, and other Bluetooth devices. The ability to use multiple devices with the same accessory is a huge savings for customers. We all remember when Apple changed to the current lightning connector a whole fleet of accessories became a complete waste, with countless charging cables being made obsolete.
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But with magnets, there is no cable to throw out. No connection that cannot be reused. Magnets are magnets, and their beauty is that they are both simple and agnostic. They can be used in any number of ways, switching between generations of phones or even switching between different brands. And while that may scare the phone manufacturers, it is a boon for the phone user who will no longer need to throw out their accessories regularly.
Magnetic Adapter Saves The Environment
In addition to saving some money, magnetic adapters and accessories also help in the larger picture of saving the environment. Every time there’s a change in a phone and people need to buy new accessories, the old ones usually end up in landfill as it’s next to impossible to figure out where old tech can be safely recycled. But when manufacturers start using magnets to attach accessories, all of that is a thing of the past and mother earth will be thanking us.
Magnetic Adapter For Every Situation
Another benefit that doesn’t often crop up but is hugely annoying when it does, is the need to find just the right connector for your phone. If you’re at work and your phone is dying, you need to ask around to see who has the right cable for you. With magnets that type of issue goes away, much in the same way that Bluetooth has made headphones universal.
The beauty of Bluetooth being a standard technology among all phones is that any phone can work with any headphone, can connect in any car, can work with any remote speaker. The same should be the goal of magnetic accessories, coming in the same size and configuration with a protocol that can work across all phones and platforms.
For right now there are few magnetic accessories, but it is reasonable to expect that there will be more and more going forward. And those new accessories will for the first time since the inception of the phone be able to be viewed by users as long term use products. They won’t need to be thrown out when a new model is released, they won’t need to be changed if you change to a new brand of phone, and so all your hard earned money will be preserved for future use thanks to the magnet.
Adapters and accessories will outlast our phones, and that’s a good thing for our pocket book, mother earth and that annoying friend who always needs you to help them charge their phone.