I could not see anything new in the specs in those devices.

I have a shaver that uses inductive charging. The main advantages are that the charger cradle is very water resistant and the cradle is easy to use. Use in a cellphone might offer slightly easier to use cradles and would be good for waterproof PDAs and cellphones.

The only advantage I see to the inductive approach would be the idea that it could be device agnostic. In other words, if this caught on as a widely adopted means of charging, I might someday be able to charge my cell phone, my MID, my iPod, etc. all on the same pad, and not need to have all those wires everywhere. I don’t see this happening anytime soon, however.