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Apple Developing iPhone With Extended Range Wireless Charging for as Soon as 2017

mainstreetmark said:
Anything to put an end to the stupid Lightning connector. I seem to get only a year or two before i have to take my iPhone into the store, because it will quit making contact in there or something. Or the cables themselves will get a worn contact. My iPhone6 just started doing it, so time for an upgrade i guess. My old iPod 3 charges just fine (though, it doesn't hold the charge for more than 10 seconds).
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do you ever clean out the port? mine wouldn't charge that well for months till cleaned it with a little brush.
 
Apple cables do sometimes fray even if they have been treated well. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen (only infants and narcissists think that way).

In any case, I do not understand the physics of this - surely there is going to be a very nonlinear and dramatic drop in the ability to extract power from the source as the distance increases. Wouldn't the smart thing be to use the electromagnetic emissions from AC wiring (or even WiFi) in a given building for trickle-charging, even if the power available is at the lower limit? Even though the power available would be small, it would be nearly 24/7 for most people. I'm not an engineer, so be gentle in your responses....:oops:

Also, I cannot imagine Apple would be so stupid as to remove a power/accessory connector, so I imagine a lightening port would stay.
 
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Benjamin Frost said:
There's a difference between a demonstration and commercial application.
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You're right. I watched this video today and am far less impress than I originally was.
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BlueCreek said:
Already done, a working demo was displayed at CES this year, Apple need to hurry up and buy this company.

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-charging-in-midair-is-the-coolest-ces-demo-i-1751438193
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Never link to that site again. Those commenters are worse than The Verge's.
 
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luigiBoschin said:
[doublepost=1454066311][/doublepost]samsung working on a copy...
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luigiBoschin said:
Samsung working on a copy already...
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Since you posted the comment twice, perhaps you should be reminded that Samsung and other manufacturers have had wireless charging for some time. Recently - they've moved to fast wireless charging. I would have no doubt it my mind that Samsung and others have been investigating stretching the distance between charger and device for awhile now. It's the evolution of the technology.

But I guess we need to throw a samsung copies into every thread to meet a quota, right?
 
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samcraig said:
Phil's comment is absurd. Yes - wireless chargers still need to be plugged in. But it's a very nice convenience to just pop a device on a disc/pad and not have to fuss with the plug. Also reduced wear and tear on the plug/port.

No doubt one of their concerns is that it would likely add to the thickness of the device and they keep wanting to get thinner. To that I said - phones are thin enough (my opinion). Happily trade battery life, wireless charging, etc for a slightly thicker phone. With a great percentage of phones in cases - I'm not sure many consumers really care about their device being uber thin.
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The technology in current phones is actually paper thin (quite literally). It's rather remarkable. Nokia had a whole line of phones where shell swaps either included or excluded the wireless charging technology. By definition, yes, adding anything tangible will add to thickness, but this is ridiculously slim.
 
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lordofthereef said:
The technology in current phones is actually paper thin (quite literally). It's rather remarkable. Nokia had a whole line of phones where shell swaps either included or excluded the wireless charging technology. By definition, yes, adding anything tangible will add to thickness, but this is ridiculously slim.
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I agree - but even as thin as it is - it's not really Apple's model to want to add thickness at all ;)
 
AliMacs said:
Dear Jony Ive-

Please stop obsessing with thin iPhones. It's thin enough. For F-sake, how about giving your buyers a phone that has a bigger battery so we don't have to wait until 2017 for a technology such as this we never asked for? How about actually using current technology and making your iPhone thicker so Phil can announce an iPhone that has 2x the battery life as it has now? How about stop giving us stuff we do not care for?

Thank you,
Future iPhone 7 buyer.
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Thank you! Was there a single person who thought the 5S was too thick? I'm going to say doubtful. Apple sacrifices things that are important (battery life, a camera that protrudes, other internals) for something that is meaningless (and in my opinion actually makes the phone harder to hold).
 
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MacFanBoi said:
Must be treating the cables pretty rough. I've been using the same lighting cable that came with my iphone 5 to charge every new iphone and ipad and no damage yet. Can't wait for wireless charging though.
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and like clockwork, 'that guy'....'

But at least you live up to your name.
 
justiny said:
There's an old military saying... Take care of your equipment, and it will take care of you.
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And there is an even older saying… Take care of nature, and it will take care of you.

Time to drop all this tech nonsense people.
 
AliMacs said:
Dear Jony Ive-

Please stop obsessing with thin iPhones. It's thin enough. For F-sake, how about giving your buyers a phone that has a bigger battery so we don't have to wait until 2017 for a technology such as this we never asked for? How about actually using current technology and making your iPhone thicker so Phil can announce an iPhone that has 2x the battery life as it has now? How about stop giving us stuff we do not care for?

Thank you,
Future iPhone 7 buyer.
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Dear Jony,
Please ignore this guy...
You built an iconic phone with excellent battery life & I applaud your "thinnest & lightest" passion. While I do agree that the iPhone is "thin enough" when not in a case... I believe that less than 10% of people rock their $650+ devices naked, so to me... mine is still a bit thicker (by quite a bit, actually) than I'd prefer because of the necessity of the case.
If you want to make us REALLY happy, make the screen shatterproof and the body scratchproof, & THEN you can stop going thinner!!!

Thank you,
iPhone buyers that are spoiled by you and
now demand both form AND function.
 
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garirry said:
What's next, an iPhone that has physically no connections, doesn't have any buttons (everything is controlled using the software or using your mind or some other bs like that), it's so thin that it can fold like a piece of paper (of course, with the protruding camera and the phone that can break super-easily), and is overall just a giant screen?
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Well, I would totally support removing the vibration and volume buttons and toggle them from Control Centre. That's two less hardware buttons that might eventually break.
 
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JohnApples said:
I agree, I hate the fragile lightning connectors. They "turtle neck" and fray VERY easily for me, even though they literally never leave the outlet they're plugged into. But be prepared for the following incoming comments:

"What are you doing with your chargers that causes them to break so soon?????"
"I've had my Lightning charger for (insert years) and it's still PERFECT!"
"Don't abuse your cord and you won't have this problem."
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I have not broken mine and I use it all the time -they are not designed to be bent as hard as you probably do - also buy the expensive ones as they last instead of the £2 knock offs I see
 
CarlosQG said:
Well, I would totally support removing the vibration and volume buttons and toggle them from Control Centre. That's two less hardware buttons that might eventually break.
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You would want to have to turn your screen on to adjust volume vs doing it by feel. Can't say I'm in favor of that.
 
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CarlosQG said:
Well, I would totally support removing the vibration and volume buttons and toggle them from Control Centre. That's two less hardware buttons that might eventually break.
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I can't be the only person who puts my phone to silent mode with it in my pants pocket, thanks to the tactile feel of the silent button...
 
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samcraig said:
You would want to have to turn your screen on to adjust volume vs doing it by feel. Can't say I'm in favor of that.
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I'm not in favor of removing the buttons currently, but it's very clear that Apple has big plans for haptic technologies on all their devices.
 
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