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Analyst Angle: Wireless Charging Provides Convenience And Easy Experience For Consumers

With projected sales of more than 8.3 billion smartphones and over 400 million smart watches between 2016 and 2020 worldwide by Parks Associates, wireless charging technologies have an enormous addressable market. These numbers exclude other wearable categories from fitness trackers to connected health devices that can also benefit from wireless charging solutions. A prolonged standards fight is not in the best interest of device OEMs nor technology innovators.

From the article "Analyst Angle: Wireless Charging Provides Convenience And Easy Experience For Consumers" by Harry Wang.

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