Wireless charger not Qi - is it safe?

[Jimmy Recard]

Guy at work bought a wireless charger for his phone. He knows nothing about tech and didn’t realise his phone was not capable of it. He gave it to me as it would be more hassle to try to send it back (cheap eBay item)

My phone is an iPhone 8 and is the Qi standard. I set the charger up in my car and it worked, then I had a quick look at the little instruction leaflet and it doesn’t say Qi anywhere, so safe to assume it’s not certified.

My question - will it bugger up my phone? It’s a plain iPhone 8 with just a tempered glass screen protector on it.

[tribbles]

It's possible that they don't want to pay any licensing fees...

[Jimmy Recard]

I thought of that. The outputs (according to the manual) are compatible with the iPhone. 5V 1A i think?

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