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All Three New 2017 iPhones to Feature Wireless Charging

If wireless charging does come out loads of things will be obsolete and new things will have to be made to cope with wireless for example not been able to charge your phone in the car it would have to have specific wireless charging stand

Bedtime phone and watch stand would come obsolete to because you would have to buy another stand to cope with wireless charging
 
NT1440 said:
If it's long range (~10ft from the power brick) then it will indeed be "magical". If it's the same old matt-based ******** you'll get a collective "meh".
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Well my comment was based on the assumption it would be some sort of charging pad type device. I agree wireless charging at a distance would qualify as being a bit "magical", haha.
 
So, there will be a 7s, a 7s+ this year, which still have the physical home button and the lightening port. Then, there is the third model "iPhone X", which has no lightening port, no home button, no bezel, and priced at $880, $990 and $1100?
 
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Why? It seems like a feature that makes the device heavier, more expensive, and I will need to get a whole new set of cables (again). I suspect that it would also mean the end of any ports of any kind on iPhones.
 
I don't understand why they just didn't bother release 2 version of the Redesigned model, who's even going to buy the 7S and 7S Plus...
 
tongxinshe said:
So, there will be a 7s, a 7s+ this year, which still have the physical home button and the lightening port. Then, there is the third model "iPhone X", which has no lightening port, no home button, no edge, and priced at $880, $990 and $1100?
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Not sure I would like the idea of NO lightning (or usb-c, whatever) charging port.
What if you were away from home and needed to charge?
At least with the current setup you can take a small and cheap charger along or borrow someone else's.
 
tongxinshe said:
So, there will be a 7s, a 7s+ this year, which still have the physical home button and the lightening port. Then, there is the third model "iPhone X", which has no lightening port, no home button, no edge, and priced at $880, $990 and $1100?
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Yep and all those people on Apple's yearly upgrade plan will ONLY be able to upgrade 7sand 7s+
 
iMi said:
A company I work with just developed a new wireless charging station and created wireless charging adapters for iPhones as well as Android. It's ridiculous how easy it was to implement. Components are so thin, it's simply basic stuff. The fact that iPhones still don't over wireless charging is just odd.

Maybe Apple wouldn't sell as many cables and dongles? I don't know.
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Could be their demographic doesn't care about wireless charging?
I'm one of them! Plug it in at night, done!
I would rather have them spend their resources on other tech, literally just about anything!
 
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I wonder hoe Apple will do this wireless charging, I can't see them following the route of others like Samsung where you have to put the phone on a mat to it to charge, I think they will have come up with a better way of doing it.
 
DustinDeTorres said:
Every single year apple bringing new model but how can anyone change their phone every year? Atleast I can't do it.
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For me, it works on the principle of the "hand me down" program. By now, every immediate member of my family benefited from this program and they all get a newer phone every one or two years.

Only I get the newest :p
 
fourthtunz said:
Could be their demographic doesn't care about wireless charging?
I'm one of them! Plug it in at night, done!
I would rather have them spend their resources on other tech, literally just about anything!
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That could be, I agree. Plus Apple seems to always wait for the technology to mature before implementing it. Well, it matured. It's surprisingly convenient I must say.
 
MacRumors said:
An excerpt from Kuo's research note obtained by MacRumors:The new 3D Touch module could be up to $5 more expensive for Apple to procure per phone. While that is a minimal increase, it lends further credence to a report claiming the high-end iPhone 8 could cost upwards of $1,000 in the United States due to a significant redesign and the use of premium parts.
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$5 3D touch module increase = $100 consumer price increase
 
Dave245 said:
I wonder hoe Apple will do this wireless charging, I can't see them following the route of others like Samsung where you have to put the phone on a mat to it to charge, I think they will have come up with a better way of doing it.
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Yes, this is my question as well. Personally, I'd rather have a little USB power cube and a cable than to have to lug around a pad of some size (mouse pad? track pad?) and thickness. Obviously, I don't know much about the wireless/wi-fi charging technology.
 
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The concept really nice, really hope it is real.

As for wireless charging, it is time to put in. I really miss my wireless charging time on S7 Edge.
 
bingeciren said:
For me, it works on the principle of the "hand me down" program. By now, every immediate member of my family benefited from this program and they all get a newer phone every one or two years.

Only I get the newest :p
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Incredibly this sounds both generous and selfish all at the same time. :D

I'd call it "trickle down electronics."
 
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This is of such disinterest to me that it's not even funny.

Of course, anything to wow the masses.

Wake me when Apple announces something truly newsworthy.
 
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