[sraffe8283]

Hi all and greetings from England,

Will there ever come a day when I can turn my phone off when I go to bed and the alarm will sound. When I had the Blackberry 9380 there was an alarm app that would carry out such a function when the phone was in off mode but I cannont find one for the HTC 8x.

Also I would like to purchase a QI charging pad for my 8x. Are the any available yet?

Steve

[skaramanga]

I don't believe the Windows Phone 8 OS allows anything to operate like that, if the phone is off everything is shut down, won't do anything. If you bought your 8X in the UK I don't believe there is any wireless charging circuitry built in, it is only the 8X sold in the US on Verizon network.

[msdugn]

Hi all and greetings from England,

Will there ever come a day when I can turn my phone off when I go to bed and the alarm will sound. When I had the Blackberry 9380 there was an alarm app that would carry out such a function when the phone was in off mode but I cannont find one for the HTC 8x.

Also I would like to purchase a QI charging pad for my 8x. Are the any available yet?

Steve

The built in alarm app on my 8X does this. But I prefer the 627.am app - which is how I wake up every morning.

[sraffe8283]

Many thanks for the responses.

Steve

[jlzimmerman]

Also I would like to purchase a QI charging pad for my 8x. Are the any available yet?

Steve

Yes. First, ensure your 8x has the Qi charging feature enabled (perhaps all Euro models are enabled). Energizer makes a one (single) and three position Qi charger. The Nokia DT-900 charging plate will also work. I use the Energizer Qi charger and it works great.

[sraffe8283]

Thanks for info re Energizer.

[sraffe8283]

It appears that on the USA carrier Verizon 8X has Qi charging so again the European market is cheated. Without doubt the 8x is the best smartphone I have ever owned but when facilities such as Qi are not available to all the, sadly time to change to another phone company here in the UK :-(

[aximtreo]

This is a good case in point. Manufacturing identical phones with one or two capabilities left out for various parts of the world is ridiculous. Why would a USA user want wireless charging and a UK user not. Seems to be a way of confusing the user market and keeping the per unit price high in different parts of the world. I would think that manufacturing a particular phone; i.e. HTC 8X the same for all markets would keep quality up, prices steady and users happy. Just my 2 cents.