Google Nexus 7 hack adds wireless charging, voids warranty

0. phoneArena posted on 12 Dec 2012, 03:49

Here's a guy who wants to teach his tablet some new tricks. Rod Whitby – an experienced tinkerer who has hacked more than a few smartphones already, is at the final steps of completing his wireless charging mod for his Google Nexus 7. He is using a Touchstone charging dock and circuitry taken from old Palm smartphones, just like other hardware hackers have done in the past...

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1. MeoCao (unregistered) posted on 12 Dec 2012, 04:28 5

+1 to geek spirit, we may see this feature in next version of Nexus 7

2. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 12 Dec 2012, 06:03 0

kids..... don't try this at home

3. squallz506 posted on 12 Dec 2012, 09:13 0

I bought a palm pixi touchstone back cover and moved the coil to my s3. But my s3 already had the connections for it. It was easy and it works great.

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