According to reports, Starbucks was the first company to support the PMA wireless charging protocol and standard, and even provided hardware support for the development of the wireless charging protocol, and in most Starbucks stores in North America, mobile phones that support PMA wireless charging can be charged on the table. Take the San Francisco Bay Area as an example, walking into any Starbucks in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can find that its coffee table is different: each table has a lot of circular areas that look like \"vinyl records\".
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This is the device that provides wireless charging for devices such as mobile phones. Back in 2012, Starbucks announced its support for Power Matter Alliance (PMA), the wireless power supply standards alliance behind Powermat, to help promote the wireless charging technology with the Powermat wireless charging system, and now this goal has been achieved. If your phone supports PMA standard wireless charging technology, put the phone within range of this vinyl disk to achieve wireless Internet access. If your phone doesn't support PMA, don't worry. Starbucks has specially prepared a plug for your phone to match. This is the colorful plastic sheet hardware device provided by the store - charging heads for different models of mobile phones.
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The whole operation process is very simple: first find a round plastic sheet suitable for your model, plug its port into the charging port of your phone, and then just put the phone with the round plastic sheet on the \"black film\" area of the table, when the phone has begun to charge.
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The wireless charging system is a collaboration between Starbucks and Israeli wireless charging company Duracell Powermat, which began introducing contactless charging in stores across the United States in June 2015.
At present, Starbucks wireless charging does not support the Qi wireless charging protocol, which means that even if there is a wireless charging device, it can not charge the upcoming Apple new mobile phone. In order to meet user demand, Starbucks decided to upgrade the device to a version that can support the Qi standard. According to Itay Sherman, Powermat's chief technology officer, this is a problem that can be solved without replacing the wireless charging device. He said the current wireless charging devices for Starbucks were designed to cover as many wireless charging standards as possible. Now to solve this problem, you only need to update the software of the wireless charging device, and it will not cost a lot of manpower and time. It turns out that the wireless charging device Powermat provided to Starbucks is a set of carefully designed \"cloud deployment device\
In the future, with the promotion of Qi wireless charging technology, Starbucks will deploy the wireless charging device in more places around the world. I believe that in the near future, we hold a mobile phone that supports Qi wireless charging technology, and we do not need to quarrel for a position near the charging seat, and it is easy to surf the Internet in Starbucks with WiFi and drink sweet coffee for a whole day.