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Apple Experimenting With 'New Way of Charging' for 2012 iPhone
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Now that would be amazing!
I concur with the 30 days between charging!!!!
http://www.articlesbase.com/information-technology-articles/30-day-battery-life-with-liquidmetal-fuel-cell-for-iphone-5g-3987044.html#axzz1ROxMyGje
I don'y want a new way of charging. I doubt I really want a "better" way of charging.
Charging is not a problem.
If you could eliminate charging altogether then I would be interested.
I need better battery life from my phone. Not a thinner and lighter phone.
Charging is not a problem.
If you could eliminate charging altogether then I would be interested.
I need better battery life from my phone. Not a thinner and lighter phone.
The ideal iPhone will have no buttons, no ports, be 2mm thick and have 30 days of battery life. Just magical. Think different. 
Induction chargers are nothing new. Also HP has a lot of the Palm patent portfolio to charge smart-phones via inductance. This is just a fluff piece to keep the stock price up during the summer.
The ideal iPhone will have no buttons, no ports, be 2mm thick and have 30 days of battery life. Just magical. Think different.
I'd like that too, however I'd never want 0 hardware buttons until software is 100% freeze and crashproof. What will you do when your phone freezes?
Apple engineers are clearly unaware of the real use cases for the device.
I need to charge it and I am not at my desk but in a trip in the fields with my solar charger/at a friend's place with a usb cable.
mmmh.
I need to charge it and I am not at my desk but in a trip in the fields with my solar charger/at a friend's place with a usb cable.
mmmh.
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Double or more? Those are some expensive panels.
Think about it - even if you got an extra 5 min for every hour under light that would increase battey life an extra 30 min of talk time. (Unless you only use your phone in a cave.)
Or if you are stranded somewhere you can wait a coule of hours for the phone to charge up a bit.
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Double or more? Those are some expensive panels.
Think about it - even if you got an extra 5 min for every hour under light that would increase battey life an extra 30 min of talk time. (Unless you only use your phone in a cave.)
Or if you are stranded somewhere you can wait a coule of hours for the phone to charge up a bit.
the mistake in that is, that there will be no need any more for spaceships.
it will feature an infinite improbability drive that can beam us wherever we want almost instantaneously
There are significant legal problems with any such system. First of all, it would likely interfere with the broadcast signal which would probably be viewed unfavourably by the communications regulators in various countries. Second, if it extracted power inductively from electricity transmission lines, it would fall foul of theft laws (people have built systems to do exactly this in the past, and been found guilty of theft when taken to court). Technically possible, but almost impossible to do legally.
I was thinking this. Unless the magnets are really weak, it would take a good yank to get the cable out.
You know that iPhones and iPads already have gyroscopes in them, right? These are, inherently, moving parts.
Swiss (and other) watch makers have been building "automatic" watches that wind themselves by harvesting kinetic energy from the wearer for the better part of a century, and they have an enviable reputatoin for reliability. I would guess the design life for an iPhone is a lot less than a Rolex watch.
True, it would be idiotic for apple with add solar charging. The surface area of the iPhone would never produce anywhere near the current to charge it; and since when does anyone use an iPhone in direct sunlight anyway?
Yeah, on a microscopic scale. Imagine how many ******s would drop their phone shaking it, hoping for a minutes more juice. A watch would consume millions times less energy than an iPhone, it's got to move a small hand, an iPhone has to power a crazy bright screen, radio, and a processor.
No way in hell.
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Every new rumour being released makes this upcoming iPhone 5 (or 4S) look less and less appealing.
It's coming out in Sept/Oct 2011 and there's a very good chance the next one will return to the June schedule, meaning it'll have only been 8-9 months between them.
Seeing as how I desperately need a new phone, I'm going to have to pick this up, and that really sucks, considering the fact that my carrier only allows upgrades every 2.5 years. So that means I'm going to go 1.75 years after the release of LTE, a new charging method, and possibly a bigger screen - without having these significant features.
If the iPhone 5 is merely just an iPhone 4 with an A5, a slightly improved camera, and maybe more RAM, it's going to feel absolutely ancient by then.
It's coming out in Sept/Oct 2011 and there's a very good chance the next one will return to the June schedule, meaning it'll have only been 8-9 months between them.
Seeing as how I desperately need a new phone, I'm going to have to pick this up, and that really sucks, considering the fact that my carrier only allows upgrades every 2.5 years. So that means I'm going to go 1.75 years after the release of LTE, a new charging method, and possibly a bigger screen - without having these significant features.
If the iPhone 5 is merely just an iPhone 4 with an A5, a slightly improved camera, and maybe more RAM, it's going to feel absolutely ancient by then.
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Sold as an upgrade via the iPhone 5 App Store only.
liavman said:Dumb me, when I first read 'charging', I thought it is referring to a different way Apple is going to charge money for the iPhone
Sold as an upgrade via the iPhone 5 App Store only.
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I remember reading about a technology that charges a battery via sound waves. The more you talk, the more battery you get. That'd be cool.
I remember reading about a technology that charges a battery via sound waves. The more you talk, the more battery you get. That'd be cool.
The most interesting way I heard to charge such a device was from the human blood circulation. If they introduce that and it works, they won.