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4.7-Inch iPhone to Feature Wireless Charging Next Year
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You misunderstood what you read. To be fair, the headline and subsequent article are horribly written so it's understandable. Both phones will reportedly have wireless charging, not just the 4.7. Says so right in the article... very obtusely.
Thanks for that. I am well aware of ambient as well as man made RF / EM fields. We already create quite a bit of RF noise with our devices, yet complain about range / performance. So yeah, why not fill the spectrum with more of it.
Would be killer if Apple (or someone) could tap into the already present RF in the average house, as opposed to adding more of this noise.
My concern is with developing tech that radiates energy to the center of a room to charge your phone away from the source. Similar to how you can roam around a room with a wireless device and still talk to the network.
If the tech can be developed to charge off of the existing WIFI signals, Awesome!! If it requires a strong transmitter of it's own to achieve this, I am less interested.
Isn't, like 40% of the energy wasted? All those hipsters out there w/ these phones don't have an issue with wasting 40% of their energy consumption but drive around in a Prius to lower their carbon imprint?
I'm sorry but I'm not buying it. why alter the naming convention that's been so well-established?
It makes no sense.
Look to Apple's revenue guidance...
Q4 2016 revenue came in at $46.9 billion. At the time that report was released, Apple provided Q1 2017 revenue guidance between $76 billion and $78 billion. Historically, Apple has been conservative on revenue guidance.
Based on the above, I would say this quarter will result in a huge number of iPhone sales. And no doubt a decent number of MacBook Pro sales as well.
The problem with current methods of wireless charging is that users have to buy additional wireless charging pads. For wireless charging to be ubiquitous, it needs to be included as standard, just like the AC adapter. Until then, it will be just a nice feature that hardly anybody uses.
So the Plus users have to wait for 2018 iPhone 8S for wireless charging capabilities?
No, the Plus will likely have the tech first, just like everything else from image stabilization to dual cameras.
It likely won't have any ports, and nobody will want them anymore after this phone is introduced.
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Is such tech ready for mass production? No other manufacturer have released something like that (and Apple isn't usually the first when it comes to new tech).
It would be great though, not having to plug the phone or even place it on a mat or inductive charger/dock of sorts.
Is such tech ready for mass production? No other manufacturer have released something like that (and Apple isn't usually the first when it comes to new tech).
It would be great though, not having to plug the phone or even place it on a mat or inductive charger/dock of sorts.
These rumors keep getting exciting!!
But for the wireless charging. If I'm still tied to a pad that's stuck in a 3" x 5" location, where I can't even use my phone conveniently... it doesn't do any good. With a cable, I can move at least a few feet in almost any direction, while using my phone. I really hope this wireless charging is revolutionary, otherwise it's a blind copy of Samsung for the sake of copying, wasting convenience with no real gain.
But for the wireless charging. If I'm still tied to a pad that's stuck in a 3" x 5" location, where I can't even use my phone conveniently... it doesn't do any good. With a cable, I can move at least a few feet in almost any direction, while using my phone. I really hope this wireless charging is revolutionary, otherwise it's a blind copy of Samsung for the sake of copying, wasting convenience with no real gain.
WiTricity, like Energous is still distance dependent for actual efficient wireless charging. The closer you are, the better the charge. Also like Energous, there are a lot of caveats associated with the tech being viable for consumer devices. Let's slow our roll in proclaiming it to be the answer we've been looking for. Exciting tech, no doubt. Calling it far superior without any actual product is a reach.
Seeing as every analyst and his dog are reporting the iPhone 8 in 2017.... yea. Hope you didn't lay money down on your claims. You're going to lose it.
As long as we KEEP the Lightning port. I loved the wireless charging on the Palm Pre, but even that feature (way ahead of its time and preferred over using that FLIMSY port cover) wasn't as convenient when you weren't home or didn't have a base available.
Not too excited for the iPhone 8.
You can bet that they're going to put most of their efforts into aesthetic redesign. The most functional part (if rumors are true) will be an all-display front, with no wasted bezel space.
They'll be saving a real camera upgrade for the 8s. I'll be getting a 7, I think it's actually a great time to buy right now.
You can bet that they're going to put most of their efforts into aesthetic redesign. The most functional part (if rumors are true) will be an all-display front, with no wasted bezel space.
They'll be saving a real camera upgrade for the 8s. I'll be getting a 7, I think it's actually a great time to buy right now.
It isn't a reach at all. There have been multiple examples showing far greater distances than what's possible with current tech, including one that was capable of powering an entire room, from a single transmitter, using a bunch of repeaters. There will never be a wireless technology that isn't distance-dependent (unless we're someday able to leverage quantum entanglement, somehow...), so that argument is somewhat pointless. It delivers enough charge to power many devices, at reasonable distances. For a version 1.0 technology, I'd call it pretty good. I'm sure it can be improved upon in the future.
It's not really on the same scale. One short drive in any car will use more energy than your smartphone will in it's entire lifetime.
many people here have said that Samsung isn't copying Apple's designs because the design of the iPhone is the most obvious choice (of course no phone looked like it at the time - but that's besides the point). What will they say when Apple comes up with something new and everyone else follows - as they tend to do?
your assumption is that Apple hasn't thought about that and come up with a solution. I think it's interesting that Apple moved all of the airport people into the apple tv division - perhaps they'll have one unit that does everything??
Actually, it's possible we may get a 4.7" 7s and another larger 5.5"-5.8 model that looks different, maybe with a curved OLED display that could be called the iPhone 8 or perhaps iPhone Pro.
So it's either wireless charging or top of the line specs with oled screen?
Much choices,
Such decisions..
Oh the fragmentation.
Yeah, different feature sets and options is NOT fragmentation. You're misusing that word.
It'll be cool to see what Apple comes out with next year, but I couldn't really care at this point. I'm going with a different phone manufacturer this year. An iPhone down the road might tempt me to come back at a later time, but I'm tired of relying on ONE manufacturer for my phone/electronic needs. Especially when we've seen the same design used three years in a row. More fun this way, anyhow--before smartphones, every new phone we'd get would be radically different, since it was never the same phone. Kept things new.