Starbucks sets up 200 wireless charge pilots in San Francisco Bay Area

Perhaps the most technologically literate Starbucks in the coffee industry today has a wireless charging station in 200 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. If the pilot response is good, Starbucks will then invest 100,000 devices in the United States as planned and will enter the European and Asian markets during the year, when the time is generally not more than next February.

I went to a pilot store in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley, and felt it.

The store offers a total of eight free wireless charge rings, which correspond to a wide range of sizes, and there are three doors at the entrance:

The store can be used to recharge the table (that is, special powermat spots table) has a corresponding induction ring, the table distribution rate is about 50%. In my case, for example, a eight-person table with four or so Powermat spot, and three on the bar on the coffee point.

It can be recharged by aligning the protruding rings on the device with the ring on the table.

As can be seen from the above steps, it is not simple to have a mobile phone can be charged at Starbucks free of charge. There is also a point to note, and not all mobile phone cover on the ring can play after the turn. This is because Starbucks and power Matters Alliance (PMA) have worked together, the mobile phone will be a Duracell Powermat as shown in the picture of the charging ring to carry out wireless charging, and this 9.9-knife adapter, can only be used for PMA Alliance members.

PMA currently includes at&t, HTC, LG, Samsung, Huawei, BlackBerry and Qualcomm manufacturers. Powermat spots technology, based on the PMA Standard and developed by Duracell and Powermat Technologies, includes mobile power supplies and cell phone shells that support wireless charging.