When will be a Fitbit device with wireless charging?

[Pssshhh]

Wondering when Fitbit will create a tracker model with wireless charging capability.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[JohnnyRow]

Features Suggestions Board 

[Dopovo]

Suggestion already made, not planned

[Pssshhh]

Suggestion made back in 2016 and continuing to be mentioned.  Customers are continuing to request wireless charging.

[Dopovo]

This is Fitbit.

[Rich_Laue]

While this option is nice, it usuallly adds more heat and can shorten the expected battery life. 

[Guy_]

Universal Wireless charging is a great idea, like USB plugs. Unfortunately they chose to keep the cheaper unreliable 4 pin charger of the Sense/Versa 3.

The Sense/Versa 3 require about 1.5 W which is unlikely to heat and well within the supply range of wireless charging [certainly for phones with a bigger surface area] but for a watch which has a smaller surface area it could be an issue and limit the charge rate and is more costly.

Hopefully one day it will become the norm and we can do away with different chargers and cables for every device.

[Pssshhh]

@JohnnyRow This is not an answer and it is definitely not the best answer.

[t.parker]

@Guy_ Samsung has been using wireless charging for quite a while and results are currently no different from wired charging. Galaxy Watch 5 Pro charges fully within 2 hours (one of tests I found claimed 2 hours and 9 minutes). This is exactly the same time given to Sense 2 (in Spec on website) to fully charge wired. The capacity of Galaxy 5 Pro battery is 590mAh. The Sense (according to iFixit) has battery capacity of 266mAh. Since Sense 2 will be of similar size I would say the battery capacity won't be much different (I haven't seen anything official). Wireless charging probably would be perfect for Fitbit watches considering issues with chargers.

[JohnnyRow]

@Pssshhh 

I did not mark it best. If it will please you, I can unmark it as a 'best answer' though I don't know how it got marked as such.  But sometimes posts (such as this) can have no answers, and it makes sense to mark the best that can be done.  But nobody here would have any idea if, or when Fitbit would do that.  Your best bet is to suggest it on the features Suggestions Board.  On these boards, we try to use our experience to help other users.  Nobody here has knowledge of what Fitbit plans for the future; if by chance, any moderator did know, they could not share that info.

[N8teGee]

@Guy_ Whilst it appears it will use the same connection on the watch as the previous generation, we don't know if the connection on the cable will be the same. The set up itself isn't necessarily bad, it's just the cable end that could do with some fine tuning (stronger springs and more durable pins). 

[Guy_]

@N8teGee - on the Fitbit site it says the Charge cable is the same on all post Versa 2 watches.

[N8teGee]

@Guy_ Fair enough, well spotted. Well that is a shame then. I guess our only hope now is that hopefully the seating pins on the device itself are more flush with the back, rather than recessed. Although maybe I'm just wishful thinking. 

[Guy_]

@N8teGee - it might be possible that as the battery has a lower capacity [still waiting confirmation] that the current needed will therefore be less and it might be less of a problem.

Wireless would have been the way to go. Others have.