No, not if you insert it properly. Just be careful when you grab it. Dont bend the thing or it will eventually wear out and break.
Thats why I love Sony, they put flat charging pads on the side and you just have to lay it in.
Yeah, I wish the whole "pogo pin" thing would really take off/catch on/return.
If the Galaxy Nexus wasn't so screwed up (variants for different carriers, different battery sizes), there would have been more compatible accessories. Considering I had the OEM extended battery, on the Verizon phone - I was double screwed. Some accessories were only good for non-Verizon, or any Verizon-compatible ones didn't work with the extended battery.
I think they did make one compatible, but Samsung wanted $90 for a plastic dock.
It had the pins, and I wanted to use them, but they made it ridiculous. I guess most of the Nexus phones have had the pins. My Nexus 7 (2012) has them, and a dock is available that makes use of it.
I wish those pins were more common, because it's much better for docks/cradles. Why have our smartphones largely abandoned the entire idea of a cradle, anyway? Wireless phones have always had cradles - it's the more practical approach to charging. Why we abandoned that to have to utilize small, fragile connectors , I dunno.
Sure, the ability to travel with only a cord is great. But it can't be that much to add pins, and once there, it's the better route for charging while at home or at work (wherever you want a dock).
It'll probably never be the common thing, which sucks.
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