I would think you could still just take a lightning cable for your iPad and iPhone. It's obviously still going to have a lightning port.
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All Three New 2017 iPhones to Feature Wireless Charging
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You don't have to , I have a pad on my desk, just put the phone down as you normally do when you sit down. Hey presto, it's charging, it rings, pick it up without any fear of snagging the cable. I have no case at all. It's fast charging as well, better than my cable powered htc from last year.
Any one who is down on this tech has never used it, and b) is slagging it off for the sale reason that Samsung already have it in use. Sad really.. just embrace new stuff, shunt matter where it came from...
Unfortunately such devices don't exist. Most people settle for less and enjoy conveniences they can get today instead of waiting for a better solution which may never happen.
But that defeats the purpose of wireless charging. A special dongle exists that provides both a charge and a heaphone port for the lightning connector. I don't see where wireless is useful. The wireless charger requires access to a power port, so does USB. Again I don't see any benefit.
I can do that now... I bet at that point they wont even have a lightening cable.
Bye bye lightening! Hello wireless!
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If they do a pad they can keep it. I need real wireless charging IE being able to transfer power over bluetooth or something.
No not really. You're suggesting that the fact it's wireless means you can forget about personal responsibility when it comes to the status of your charging devises. "Oh I just just place/dump/park it here and it will work" "You just put your phone on it and the phone is charged." Put it where? at home (near a mains socket?) at work (near a mains socket?) where are you going going to magically charge this iPhone that you couldn't before?
[doublepost=1486673481][/doublepost]No not really. You're suggesting that the fact it's wireless means you can forget about personal responsibility when it comes to the status of your charging devises. "Oh I just just place/dump/park it here and it will work" "You just put your phone on it and the phone is charged." Put it where? at home (near a mains socket?) at work (near a mains socket?) where are you going going to magically charge this iPhone that you couldn't before?
[doublepost=1486673481][/doublepost]No not really. You're suggesting that the fact it's wireless means you can forget about personal responsibility when it comes to the status of your charging devises. "Oh I just just place/dump/park it here and it will work" "You just put your phone on it and the phone is charged." Put it where? at home (near a mains socket?) at work (near a mains socket?) where are you going going to magically charge this iPhone that you couldn't before?
You just have your own notion of wireless charging. The purposes of wireless charging are many-fold. Not having to connect a wire (and in addition reducing the risk of breaking a connector) is one of them. Current solutions delivers here just fine. I understand that this feature is not critical but I do believe that some iPhone owners reject it mostly because they want to feel comfortable not having it on their phones (just like they were poopooing NFC, barometer, large screens, OLED etc. before Apple adopted them)
That's the ugliest concept I've ever seen. Hopefully an inch of the screen isn't taken up by a clock.
Apple is widely rumored to launch three new iPhones this year, and KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo now claims that all of them will feature wireless charging.
Kuo said wireless charging increases the internal temperature of smartphones, so he expects the rumored iPhone 8 with an OLED display and glass casing to have a new 3D Touch module with "additional graphite sheet lamination" in order to prevent the device from malfunctioning due to overheating.
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.
Kuo previously said Apple will switch to all-glass casing for next year's entire iPhone lineup, including the more iterative 4.7-inch iPhone 7s and 5.5-inch iPhone 7s Plus, in order to support wireless charging. It remains unclear if the wireless charging will be based on long-range or inductive technologies.
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Also inductive charging is not wireless, no matter what Samsung claims. So if Apple calls inductive charging wireless I will complain on the internet.
I just don't see the convenience of a device that cannot be picked up while charging. If I'm in the middle of something important while the device is low on battery, I'd rather just plug it in and continue.
You want electricity flowing through the air? Google tumours and folk living next to power sub stations to see how bad that can be...
At the same time they introduce wireless charging they are being courageous and removing the lightning port all together. They solve 2 problems at once. Dongle-war and Charging. /s
You will still be able to do just that. But there are many other scenarios where the feature does help. For example, when the phone is not too low on battery being charged on the mat and you receive a call - you can pick up the phone and go whenever you want - like the bathroom.
you might get a puck-on-a-rope like the Apple Watch.....
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You could transfer power through the air like WiFi but the efficiency is really poor......
Well, since it is Apple. It is Magical! You can transmit low power like a WiFi signal. it is just really inefficient.
No, you are wrong.
Firstly, a "charging pad" requires a flat surface to be on. Meaning tables, desks, nightstands, etc. Standalone lightning cables do not.
A "charging pad" would also require the iPhone to be lying on it at all times. Personally, I prefer to be able to charge my iPhone and use it at the same time. Next to my bed for example, I have a long lightning cable that I use to charge the phone while using it. With a charging pad, this would no longer be possible.
So this "wireless charging" doesn't grant you any freedom of movement at all. In fact, it restricts it.
Lastly, I have several lightning cables plugged in around the house. Why would it be better to have to buy several "charging pads" in their place?
That makes sense; I was under the impression that, given Apple's removal of the headphone jack, they'd remove the Lightning port or something.
Yes, your personal responsibility to charge your phone remains but the wireless charging makes fulfilling your responsibility easier.
OK. But likely you'll have to wait for the 8S or 9. From everything I've read long distance charging is still a year or so off. I think for now inductive will be a good enough segue for the long distance to come.
REALLY?! You don't see the appeal of no wires to charge the phone but yet it's appealing to listen to music with no wires. <palm slap> I just don't get this logic.
Well that is 2 seconds x 365 so I'll save 12 minutes a year plus the aggravation. Sold.