Is there a charger for iPhones that you just the place the phone on it to charge?

My iPhone 5 just died thanks to what I believe is a faulty charging port. I was looking to buy a new one ahead of my upgrade because the battery life was also giving me a hard time, but I have pictures on my dead one that I have not transferred to my computer and would like to recover.

I believe I've seen devices where you place the phone on some kind of device and it will charge. I don't really know how to describe it because I've tried to Google what I could and without success. Can someone confirm there's a product like I'm trying to describe and if it would still charge my phone despite the bad charging port?

The iPhone 5 chargers are not good chargers at all. I went through a charger a month when I first got mine. Try a different charger.

Go to Apple Store and ask him to fix the charging port of your iPhone 5. Or you can extract photos from iTunes or iCloud backup if you had created backup in advance.