No kidding, imagine the day we can walk into any store or walk around the airport and our devices just start charging. And our devices stay fully charged while at home, while in the car, at work, etc.
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Apple Seeking Supplier for Wireless Charging Chips
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No kidding, imagine the day we can walk into any store or walk around the airport and our devices just start charging. And our devices stay fully charged while at home, while in the car, at work, etc.
Imagine the day everyone has a brain tumor from all that radiating electricity!
I'm fairly certain it's not going to always be sending power... only if there is a device in the range of the field that requires that power will it transmit. And even then, I'd expect it to be a fairly focused transmission area.
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If it works anything like the WiTricity demo at TED many years ago, the power transmission will be linked via specific magnetic field coupling. It's not going to affect anything that doesn't resonate at the proper magnetic frequency.
I honestly would like no ports on a phone. Transfer everything wirelessly via Wifi/Bluetooth.
Charge the phone using a wireless charger, qi preferably.
The port on my devices usually goes flaky after a couple of years due to frequent use (imagine in and out on a daily basis, even rusting in some instances)
Charge the phone using a wireless charger, qi preferably.
The port on my devices usually goes flaky after a couple of years due to frequent use (imagine in and out on a daily basis, even rusting in some instances)
Yes. But not qi.
Charge wirelessly using a better technology, so it could charge as you're using it, or if it's in your pocket near a charging point, and so a single charging point could charge multiple devices simultaneously.
So much wrong in so few words.
- I'm strongly considering upgrading my 2014 iPhone 6 to this iPhone 7 in 2016. You could give reasons for not buy every iPhone. OG - no 3G, or App Store, iPhone 4 - no LTE/4G, iPhone 5 no NFC etc. Yet plenty of people have bought them as it's more than just a spec list.
- Apple employees have been doing plenty - check the MacRumors archives. One thing they haven't been doing to pandering to your specific needs. Their products have also been topping customer satisfaction surveys and generating billions of dollars. Your comment is especially weird as the entire product lineup is to be refreshed in the next few months.
- I don't even know where to begin with the geekbench comment. The A series chips have been plenty innovative and lead the industry on performance.
- Not sure why you would confuse iPads, iPad Minis and iPad Pros into one linear set of numbered iPads. That would be complex. Let's reorganise your list for clarity:
- iPad
- iPad 2
- iPad 3 (Didn't even exist)
- New iPad
- iPad 4th Gen
- iPad Air
- iPad Air 2
- iPad mini
- iPad mini 2
- iPad mini 3
- iPad mini 4
- iPad Pro
I don't think Apple should be taking CEO advice on someone who finds iPad naming difficult.
Perhaps not for fanboys following MacRumours, but for the average consumer. Yes.
I took my parents five years to understand the difference between Windows and Word
What do you suggest? We currently have:
Small iPad = Mini
Regular iPad = Air
Pencil support = Pro
As I mentioned all I would do is drop the word Air. So it would be:
Small iPad = iPad Mini
Regular iPad = iPad
Pencil support = iPad Pro
But I completely understand the Word and Windows thing. I've got friends who are similar. The iPad has been excellent for those non-techies it allows them to email, IM, browse the web etc. without having to understand macOS or Windows which have a steeper learning curve. My parents' main computer is an iPad 2, they never used PCs or Macs.
Removing a technology that's been around since the 1870's doesn't necessarily dictate a downgrade. Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against the old girl, I even still use wired headphones quite a lot.
But what if Apple were able to deliver a better alternative. Something that both wired and possibly wireless offered a better signal than good old analog can provide. Would those of us who care more about the quality of our audio than what's producing it care? Would we just be annoyed that we couldn't plug in our existing headphones without, god forbid, the use of an adapter? Or are we annoyed that the cans we could possibly buy for the new format won't initially be compatible with our home audio systems. Meh, personally doesn't bother me, I use different cans for at home and on the move anyway.
Does anyone else remember the uproar when Apple decided to kill off the floppy drive/optical drive/physical buttons from a phone/insert whatever you like and none of us managed without them?
Considering none of us have seen and more importantly heard what Apple have in store, I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt until we have, rather than blast them for something we know nothing about.
If what they have lined up is better than grandma analog, then I'll happily use an adapter and my Bluetooth cans until I decide it's time to drag my headphones out of the 19th century.
What up... I thought everyone talking here was Australian, then i realized everyone knew about the wireless charging.
The only thing i can see with this is chips will have to be everywhere in specific places to charge device(s)... iPhone, maybie even Mac laptops.. (god for bid)
Apple could sell these chips as art of wireless adapters and maybie for comtability across any current Mac, they could the end point of the megasafe and USC-C connector only with LED,, (with no wire-inbtween)
so the result would be u have the LED end on the Mac port, and the new chip-based wireless adapter in you wall socket..
The only thing i can see with this is chips will have to be everywhere in specific places to charge device(s)... iPhone, maybie even Mac laptops.. (god for bid)
Apple could sell these chips as art of wireless adapters and maybie for comtability across any current Mac, they could the end point of the megasafe and USC-C connector only with LED,, (with no wire-inbtween)
so the result would be u have the LED end on the Mac port, and the new chip-based wireless adapter in you wall socket..
If you have to remove your phone from the case to charge it, or go naked that might be a UI problem.
"Cases" my foot. Apple didn't wait this long to enter the wireless charging arena to come up with cases. If I were a betting man I'd be willing to bet a lot on something like the Wattup video proposes.
Good idea. In fact, that is exactly what the Apple patent about wireless charging was about, which started all these rumors.
Their patent was on the idea of setting up a wireless charging relay chain, from stationary plugged in master device (like a Mac) to other devices like a keyboard, and from there to your headphones, and from it to your watch, etc.
Very inefficient of course, since each device has to give up some of its own charging input to help out another device, but a neat idea nevertheless, and likely much easier to implement than the room-wide charging people so desire.
You were referring to going forward in time? Thought you just meant skipping buying the phone this year...