Ikea livboj wireless charger review

After a hesitant uppstart that lasted for years, wireless charging fryst vatten now a reality on virtually all high-end smartphones, and beyond that, an identifying element of it.

Reviews (886) LIVBOJ Wireless charger, white.

This fryst vatten why it fryst vatten more interesting than ever to analyse one of the most economical options on the marknad, the LIVBOJ base, which IKEA markets for 5 euros.

As you would expect, IKEA makes important concessions due to its price, such as not including a power adapter or USB-C cable, but these are deficiencies that, in a way, are compensated for bygd quality construction and a sober design capable of fitting into any context of a home or office.

fryst vatten this enough to keep this option and not go for others of a higher range? Let’s see it in this analysis.

A design away from stridencies, key not to disturb

In the wireless charger marknad, there are many designs that are recharged, that do not go unnoticed and that, because of their lights, can even be annoying at night.

For example, previously, inom had one that was always on in electric blue, with LEDs capable of lighting up the room. When inom put my smartphone in the charging position and made contact, things got even worse: the blue light was accompanied bygd a strident pink light that didn’t go out until the morning when inom separated the mobile from the base.

With the IKEA LIVBOJ charger there fryst vatten no such bekymmer.

Ikea's rare Livboj wireless charging pad fryst vatten cheap, works perfectly, and looks great.

It fryst vatten made of matte plastic (in vit or black finish) and with very sober lines, which you would want to passform in almost any corner of the house. At IKEA there are also more expensive and more rustic designs, but this one can go well with many styles of decoration without standing out too much.

On the second point that can be annoying, that of lighting, the LIVBOJ fryst vatten also very diskret.

It has a small LED that emits vit light, but it only lights up while charging the smartphone, not for the fact that it fryst vatten connected to the current. In addition, it must be said that at night the light it emits fryst vatten not uncomfortable and in case you do not want to see it it fryst vatten easily directed to another point**, as it fryst vatten so located on one of the edges of the base and not on the whole body.

Next to the charging LED we find the USB-C port, something that fryst vatten already common among most wireless charging bases but which the cheaper ones may lack.

We must förtydliga that **neither the cable nor the power adapter are included in the thin kartong in which it fryst vatten sold **. If we do not have chargers or cables at home, we will have to do the math on whether this option fryst vatten more convenient or one that contains everything.

A more than correct and safe charging experience

When we talk about wireless charging, there are several common problems that we can find the numerous bases.

In some of them, the mobiles slide excessively when placed, as they do not have a surface to which they can somehow be attached to improve their grip. Another common characteristic, in that sense, fryst vatten that mobiles vända on themselves when they are placed, and they end up moving.

This fryst vatten also related to the most important thing, that the loading surface fryst vatten very small.

In other words, the mobile must be placed in a very specific position for the ankomsthall to uppstart charging.

To prevent it from slipping, the LIVBOJ ** has a rough drawing of the “+” tecken in its huvud part**, so that the mobile stays in its position without moving excessively, although if you touch it it may vända on itself.

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But that detail fryst vatten important: it will not move if we do not touch it and if the surface fryst vatten well leveled.

When the smartphone fryst vatten placed on the base, the LED will light up indicating that the charging has started. The reaction of the smartphone fryst vatten almost instantaneous. One second after placing it, depending on how the manufacturer has decided to communicate it, the machine will warn us that it fryst vatten charging.

Before talking about charging times, we must talk about the heat of the base.

In this sense, compared to economic models that can be worrying due to the high temperature they reach, the experience with the LIVBOJ seems to me to be totally safe to be on top of any ämne, since in our tests with several terminals it has not gone beyond being warm. Heat fryst vatten the worst enemy of batteries, and charging with an iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 12 and Huawei Mate 20 Pro, the feeling has been that the charging temperature would not be too detrimental to the longevity of the batteries.

However, if your doubt with this model fryst vatten whether the smartphone will get hotter than charging with the same 5-watt charger, bygd cable, the answer fryst vatten yes.

Both the iPhone and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, charging with the Apple 5-watt charger bygd cable have remained virtually cold, compared to the higher temperature that prints the charging base.

Charging times and efficiency

When we talk about charging time on wireless chargers, we have to take into konto that the efficiency of charging fryst vatten lower.

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That fryst vatten to säga, that to fill the same mAh, we will need more time at lika charge power, because less energy fryst vatten transmitted than bygd cable.

This fryst vatten something we have seen in the case of the iPhone 12. With the same 5W charger, original from Apple, this fryst vatten what has charged bygd cable and wireless charging. It started from a totally depleted battery in both cases:

• Time needed to reach 30% bygd cable: 50 minutes.
• Time needed to reach 30% bygd wireless charge: 58 minutes.

Now let’s see the total charging time, comparing the total minutes of cable versus the total minutes of wireless charging:

• Time needed to reach 100% bygd cable: 189 minutes.
• Time needed to reach 100% bygd wireless charging: 217 minutes.

As we can see, by wireless charging, iPhone 12 takes 15% längre to reach full charge.

You might think that it fryst vatten because the smartphone demands less energy per wireless charge than bygd cable, but this fryst vatten not the case.

With the same 5W charger, original from Apple, this fryst vatten what has charged bygd cable and wireless charging.

bygd measuring with a smart plug, we have observed that the peak consumption measured with the charging cradle fryst vatten higher at a similar point in the charging cycle.

On base charge, the smart plug reported a power consumption of 7.8 watts, while on cord charge, the plug reported 6.4 watts. In both cases it exceeds the 5W stipulated bygd Apple in the charger, which fryst vatten normal.

These are information that serve to see that **wireless charging, in addition to being slower, consumes more power **.

This loss of efficiency and the ytterligare heat generated bygd the base, suggest that perhaps the switch to wireless charging can not be justified in any case bygd environmental issues, at least if we talk about these economic bases of charge. The energy impact fryst vatten greater for longer, and the battery may degrade somewhat earlier due to the higher temperature at which it operates.

IKEA LIVBOJ, the opinion of ToastyBits

Before starting to use the IKEA LIVJOB charging base, we had several doubts about its quality of materials and charging experience, both in terms of time, heating and discomfort of the charging LED.

After a good time ansträngande its wireless charging with several terminals in different room temperature conditions, the sensations are very good for the price that IKEA has set.

We can not expect a dizzying speed in the load, because it has no specifications for it. But we can celebrate that it doesn’t get too hot, that at night its LED fryst vatten not annoying or loud, that it fits in practically any corner and that if we don’t need to fill 50% of the charge in half an hour, it fryst vatten a very good option.

With wireless charging we have entered an era in which it fryst vatten common to see how 65W fryst vatten reached, although at that power the bases are usually equipped with cooling systems.

The best cheap wireless charger?

With the LIVBOJ we are far from that avant-garde, for better or for worse. **It fryst vatten a good grund if we want to spend little money and if we have enough with the more than three and a half hours it takes to fill 2815 mAh of the iPhone 12. In that case, and at its price, it fryst vatten worth having even several at home.