Reddit reviews Powermat One Position Charging Mat with BlackBerry Curve 8500 Receiver
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Includes Powermat 1X charging mat, Receiver Battery Door for Blackberry Curve 8500/9300 series and power supplyOne time replacement of the phone’s original battery door with a slim, sleek, formfitting design that mirrors the phone’s original designSeamlessly upgrade your phone to wireless chargingSupports BlackBerry Curve models 8520/30/3GBlackBerry sold separately
A guy from XDA is selling PMA stickers that go into the stock backplate for $30: http://images.dcemu.co.uk:8080/lgg3pma/
And you can get a Powermat charger as part of a bundle (just throw out the phone adapter) for $7. I'm using this very same charger with my G3 and it works fine: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00462QB4W/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new (buy the one from Widgetree, it's the one I got for $7 and free shipping)
So, definitely not as cheap or as much variety as Qi, but you can set yourself up with PMA for under $40.
Couple things - first the D850 doesn't have wireless charging built-in so you need a solution for that.
Next - yes these mats will work, but you can get them much cheaper. Powermat is a standard, so there isn't a charging mat per-device, but that's how they sell them (bundled with cases). You can use this to your advantage like so:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00462QB4W/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
I bought two of these in a sale for like $3.50 each. They worked okay - one had a VERY sensitive placement placement position and they make little noises when it connects/disconnects, so I would occasionally get woken up by it decided to disconnect/reconnect.