Leak: Motorola appears to be building its own MagSafe-style magnetic charging puck. Images posted by leaker Evan Blass on X on 19 August show a flat, circular Motorola charger with a USB-C connector and a braided cable, captioned Moto Snap. Motorola has not announced the accessory, and nothing below is confirmed by the company.
What the leaked images show
The puck is slim and round, with the Motorola logo in the centre and a metallic finish. Android Authority describes the underside as “a smooth silver finish etched with subtle ‘designed by Motorola’ branding near the cable joint.” It is a clear break from Motorola’s existing wireless chargers, which are upright desktop stands that hold a phone at a fixed angle rather than something you drop in a bag.
One detail worth flagging rather than repeating: the two outlets that examined the same images disagree on the colour of the illuminated ring around the puck’s edge. Android Central reads it as purple, Android Authority as blue. Since both are describing the same leaked photograph, treat the accent colour as unknown until Motorola shows the thing itself.
Why a Motorola magnetic charger matters
Magnetic wireless charging has been the most obvious gap between Apple’s hardware and mainstream Android for years. Apple popularised magnetic wireless charging years ago with MagSafe; Qi2 was supposed to bring the same magnet-in-the-phone alignment to Android, and mostly it did not — most Android makers left the magnets to a case, if they bothered at all.
Motorola broke from that with the Edge 70 Max, which per Android Central is its first phone with Qi2 magnets built into the handset rather than a case, supporting wireless charging at up to 25W. A first-party puck is the natural companion, and it is the piece that makes the feature usable rather than theoretical.
The open question is scope. A single accessory for a single flagship is a footnote. If Motorola is putting magnets into more of its mid-range phones — a range where plenty of models still ship without any wireless charging at all — that is a genuinely different proposition, and the one worth watching. Nothing in the leak answers that either way.
What we still do not know
- Charging speed — no wattage figure appears anywhere in the leak.
- Price and markets — unknown; Motorola accessory pricing varies widely between the US, Europe and India.
- Compatibility — whether it works with Qi2 phones generally or only with Motorola’s own magnet-equipped models.
- Timing — no launch window has leaked.
Motorola has, as Android Central puts it, still not said anything. Until it does, this is a photograph of an accessory and a two-word caption.
Source: Evan Blass on X, via Android Authority and Android Central
