The 4 Best Budget Android Phones That Still Support Wireless Charging

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Wireless charging doesn't improve your phone's performance in any way, since you can still charge a smartphone just fine with a wired connection. On the contrary, wireless charging has many disadvantages: it's slower, produces more heat, and is inefficient in terms of power transfer when compared to wired charging. Even so, the sheer convenience of not having to plug a cable into your phone makes it one of the most highly sought-after quality-of-life features in modern phones.

The bad news for consumers is that many companies choose to save wireless charging for their flagship models. The Pixel 3, 4, 5, and 6 phones all had wireless charging, but Google deliberately skipped the feature for their budget A counterparts. Similarly, Samsung reserves wireless charging for its flagship Galaxy S series, which means the feature isn't supported in any Samsung Galaxy A phone.

Wireless charging isn't necessarily expensive for manufacturers to implement in a phone. Instead, many companies use it as an incentive for buyers to opt for more expensive models. Fortunately, there are a number of great budget phones available for under $600 — and often $300 or less — that still include built-in wireless charging. Here are four of the best options on the market today.

A lot of foreign brands have come and gone from the United States market, but one name that's a complete unknown to many Americans is Infinix, a China-based company selling phones primarily in Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The brand is famous for selling flagship-level features and specs at budget-friendly prices, similar to how OnePlus started out as a flagship killer.

Infinix also offers wireless charging in several good phones that don't break the bank. The Infinix Note 40 Pro costs an equivalent of around $259 and comes with a 1080-by-2436-pixel, 120-hertz AMOLED display and a budget-to-mid-range MediaTek Dimensity 7020 chipset. It features 20-watt wireless charging with MagCharge, Infinix's proprietary alternative to Apple MagSafe, alongside 45-watt wired charging, as well as support for both wireless and wired reverse charging.

The Note 40 Pro isn't the only phone in Infinix's arsenal that features wireless charging, either. If you're looking for the cheapest phone that supports wireless charging, the base Infinix Note 40 is a solid contender. Costing an equivalent of $199 according to MobileInto, the phone also supports 20-watt wireless MagCharge. Neither the Infinix Note 40 Pro nor the base model comes with built-in magnets for alignment, however, which means the full wireless charging capacity depends on a separate magnetic case. Neither phone is sold at U.S.-based retailers, but it's possible to buy them through other means, such as the secondary market.

Despite many Chinese-owned smartphones pulling out of the U.S. market, Motorola phones remain available both directly to consumers and through retail. One such phone is the Motorola Edge from 2025, a device that costs roughly $379 today on Amazon and features 15-watt wireless charging out of the box.

This smartphone comes with a decent enough display, with a 1220-by-2712 resolution P-OLED panel and a 120-hertz refresh rate. It runs on the same MediaTek Dimensity 7400 Ultra chipset found in many other midrange phones, and comes with a 50-megapixel main camera alongside a 10-megapixel telephoto shooter and a 50-megapixel ultrawide. The phone supports 4K video recording at 30 Frames Per Second (FPS), as well as at 1080p up to 60 FPS. It also comes with a 5,200-milliampere-hour battery with support for 68-watt wired charging, which Motorola claims makes for a full day of battery life at just six minutes of charge. The phone didn't have a good initial reception due to the then-similarly-priced Google Pixel 9A offering better value, but it remains a decent, affordable Android phone if you prioritize wireless charging.

Motorola also offers wireless charging on cheaper phones, so long as you don't mind slightly worse specs. Specifically, the Moto G Power sells for $300 on the official Motorola Amazon store, with refurbished versions of older generations that still include wireless charging costing as little as $130 on the Amazon Renewed Store.

Google's budget Pixel A series phones have had wireless charging as far back as the Pixel 7A, and any phone since then works fine depending on your budget and desired specs. The Google Pixel 10A retails for $599 on the official Google Amazon store and comes with 10-watt wireless charging. The other hardware specs aren't anything special and are often found in lower-priced phones: a 120-hertz, 1080-by-2424 P-OLED display alongside a 48-megapixel wide and 13-megapixel ultrawide camera. However, Google's extensively optimized software and UI give this phone an edge over phones that might appear more powerful on paper — though you'll ultimately be missing out on some performance.

For a cheaper option, you can shop for an older generation Pixel smartphone. Google promises seven years of software updates for its Pixel phones, and with the Pixel 7A hitting the market in 2023, it will continue receiving updates up until late 2028. A refurbished Pixel 7A sells on Amazon for $200 and features most of Google's software optimizations, though budget hardware is getting pretty dated. You can also find a refurbished Pixel 8A in the $240-300 range, or get a refurbished Google Pixel 9A for around $300-350 on Amazon.

We've talked about how Samsung skips out on wireless charging on its A-series, but that isn't the only lineup of budget phones that the company sells. Samsung also offers FE, or Fan Edition, models of its Galaxy S-series devices as sub-flagship-level devices, and the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE retails for $699 on the Samsung Amazon store but is available for $599.99 at the time of this writing.

You can think of the S26 FE as a budget version of the flagship S26 model. To cut costs, Samsung has removed certain features and lowered the quality of others. It still features an IP68 rating, for example, but uses a standard aluminum alloy build instead of the Armor Aluminum Samsung uses for its higher-end phones. The FE variant also lacks LTPO technology, which means it lacks true variable refresh rate — though its screen is otherwise just as good as the base S26. Surprisingly for this price range, the Galaxy S26 FE offers the same camera array as the S26, apart from the telephoto lens, which Samsung has downgraded from 10 megapixels to 8 megapixels. It also features a last-generation Exynos 2500 chipset instead of the Exynos 2600 found in the non-FE phone.

As with other entries on this list, you can find several even more affordable Samsung phones that still feature wireless charging. For example, the Galaxy S24 (Samsung's 2024 flagship) checks in at $330 on the Amazon Renewed Store, or you can opt for a refurbished S24 FE for under $320 on Amazon.

Different buyers look for different things when shopping for a new phone. Some simply want a robust device that will receive software updates for years to come, while others desire the best gaming performance or top-of-the-market camera quality. No one phone has it all, especially if you also add wireless charging to the mix, but we've rounded up a range of great budget phones that all include wireless charging and target different areas of user interest.

The highest-priced phone on this list is just below $600 at the time of writing, while others cost as little as $300. Each phone has a processor at least equivalent to the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 processor (some are better) that makes for smooth day-to-day performance and light gaming capabilities, as well as AMOLED displays with refresh rates of at least 120 hertz, and a minimum of 10-watt wireless charging. We've also included lower-priced alternatives in each entry for those who want the absolute cheapest phones that still feature wireless charging, but as these are older, entry-level models, you should also expect entry-level (or at least reduced) performance from them.