Wireless charging by year end

Charge your phone wirelessly, or change its user interface to your liking. That's what Mobile and Wireless group (MWg), a new Singapore-based smartphone-maker, hopes to do.

MWg is working with Splashpower to create mobile phones that can be charged wirelessly, and it expects the phones to launch here in the second half of the year. Splashpower is a UK-based company that makes charging bases that can power phones via magnetic induction when placed on a specially-made pad.

Besides giving consumers the convenience of wireless charging, MWg wants to give them the power to customise the phones. It plans to offer free downloadable applications on its online portal to help consumers decide how they want to interact with their devices through customised graphic user interfaces.

One of the applications is Quick Menu, which offers users speedy access to applications. It overlays a row of four customisable links to applications on a standby screen and allows users to scroll through the links by swiping their fingers on the touchscreen.