yeah, looks good and functional.
The fact that the stock wireless charger is so useless really pisses me off. I don't understand how it made it through Mazda's R&D department. I can't usually get more than a couple minutes of charging done before it starts blinking red. And from reading around it's definitely not an isolated incident.
I have a semi theory about this... Camera bumps. From the get go, wireless charging is very inefficient and requires direct contact to the 'sweet spot' to charge. Any modern phone, where charging has to go through a case that evens the phone to the camera bumps creates distance.
If the phone isn't lined up and is too far away, both get hot (lost energy), then the pad overheats.
While I will agree that Apple sometimes makes standards for 'lock in', MagSafe on the phone solved a real deal problem, as you know the alignment is always perfect.
That is why I like this solution... No guessing. It was cheap to fix, so I'm not too upset about it. I'll had that the Kia Sorento X-Line that I traded in for the Mazda had the same issue. The only difference was with the Kia, if you took time to carefully align the phone, it would work, but a hard brake would knock it back off.
The proper car solution to this would be to offer interchangeable wireless attachments to a charger, one for MagSafe and another for the spec standard of Qi, which Android uses. That little charger I bought comes with a ring you can put on an Android phones sweet spot and it will magnetically charge one of them too.
Versatile for the money.
Back in the wired CarPlay days, I always wondered why carmakers didn't just put a molded lightening charger to slot your phone into, so you were not running cables. I guess it's low priority to them.
I really enjoy the wireless CarPlay on the CX-50, I've never had that. I use it a lot more now!
