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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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I would think the way to do it would be to make a 2D array comprised of a lot of small coils and then, somehow detecting the location of the device to be charged, only energize those coils. Having one large coil would just result in a lot of wasted magnetic flux that didn't overlap with the device's coil.
It’s not a matter of imagining anything. I was asking what your cutoff is.
How far away must your phone be able to charge to be considered “real” wireless?
the depth of the tech is honestly beyond my understanding of electricity. So your guess in how they'd achieve it is probably better than mine.
The writing was definitely on the wall for this one! I am not surprised.
It’s a wireless charger so yes it is. More importantly it actually exists and has been available to buy for a few years. And it’s cheap!
If this image is from Apple it should have been posted in main article.
This would have eliminated a lot of the rant posting.
"Trillion dollar company can't even make wireless charging mat" and other such nif-nod comments.
Yeah, let's bust out the violin for people who rushed to pre-order a product using an accessory that wasn't even released yet. You know what they say about people who assume things....
Not surprised. The writing on the wall was there when they failed to release on time, and then silently removed all mention of it.
I mean, realistically someone convinced him this was a good idea. However, Tim Cook ultimately has to give the go ahead. I do think this would be a case where someone in Phil Schiller's department might fall on the sword, though.
Well it is not 22 coils, Choetech makes a 5 coil that is probably 1/5 the cost of what the Airpower would have been and helps to solve the issue of having to precisely place the unit on the pad.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07MCZK6R9...olid=3R5VJUKBWH100&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
https://www.redmondpie.com/choetech...at-the-same-time-wirelessly-just-36.99-today/
For myself, the Apple Watch charging on a mat is totally useless because I use a Milanese loop which would not allow the watch to lay perfectly flat on a mat.
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Doesn’t matter. We now have an Apple branded credit card. And Oprah.
Stranfe, this sht keybrd must hve mt their excting srandrds when thy testd it?
That's provably false though. Near-field charging (pad based wireless) is just as wireless as mid-field and far-field. They vary by the distance of effective charging. You may be mistaking near-field for contact charging. They aren't the same. Our old buddies Energous, with a helping had from Dialog Semi, are going to bring mid-field to market soon with some strategic OEM partnerships. Even then, the charge levels will be little more than trickle charge. But near-field is true wireless by any and every definition. If it wasn't you couldn't charge through cases.
On topic: AirPower. Awwwww. Apple's Icarus.
Uhhh ... so printing AirPower compatibility on the AirPods 2 packaging *and* including an AirPower diagram on the wireless charging case packaging is tantamount to an unreasonable assumption AirPower release was imminent? A LOT of people only ordered the wireless charging version after the packaging made the news circuits.
