And i know the pre has this, but the practical use of this is fantastic, specially for smartphones which suffer from the lower battery than most normal phones.

Get home from work, dump your iphone on the pad and it charges, no more "where i leave my effin charger!"

Am I to assume as well that the skin basically replaces the need to go out and buy a protective case for the iphone? or is it going to be a case of having to remove it from the case everytime you finished charging, which would defeat the use of this device.

I can't REALLY see a benefit with this! Yeah, it's new technology and it's of course welcomed, but if you have to have the mat plugged in somewhere in your home or office, what stops you having the charger at the same place and plug it in to that? Come on... is it the plugging-in action that is too much of an effort here? And how is misplacing your charger an issue? I tend to leave it at one place all the time and when you are travelling for example, won't you need to take the mat with you, too? Changing the device to charge, doesn't change a thing. Take it away and then we're talking!

Until proper wireless charging has matured, been commercialised and cheap (like what Intel are doing, amongst others), I'll be saving my pennies, thank you.