Starbucks partners with Duracell to offer PMA wireless charging with your coffee

[Windows Central]

Taking wireless charging to the next level, 100,000 Powermat spots are to be deployed in participating Starbucks and Teavana tea bars. Duracell today announced alongside Starbucks that the rollout will commence in the San Francisco Bay area, expanding Powermat to additional markets next year with full nationwide coverage planned over time at supporting establishments.

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[boo516]

This worries me quite a bit. Seeing such a global force stand behind PMA makes me even more worried that Qi will begin a slow decent in the same way that HD-DVD ended up losing to Blu-Ray. I really hope Qi can sign on some more partners to combat this as having bought so many Nokia products, I'm very invested in Qi and want it to succeed.

 

[SnailUK]

Can you buy anything off the shelf with PMA charging? Whereas There are loads of WP/Android QI devices.

QI isn't going anywhere, unless PMA get Apple on board for the next iphone.

 

[xandros9]

I feel Starbucks just got punked.