Apple Wins Patent on Long-Delayed AirPods Wireless Charging Case and AirPower

[NT1440]

What's the point of doing this? Besides market differentiation I mean...

Honestly, for the end user, pure convienance and never having the problem of thinking you put a device down to charge only to find out it’s not juuuust right on there.

From an Apple roadmap standpoint, expect wireless charging of every Apple device utilizing the engineering know-how from this product to the rest of the mobile line in just a few short years. This is a roadmap technology that’s going to have much bigger implications down the road.

 

[HoosBruce]

Hurry up with the new AirPods, I’m having battery and charging problems with my 2 year old pair.

Same here. I don’t want to buy the Gen 1 at this point either

 

[Baymowe335]

So sixteen charging coils instead of 1. Such innovation.

Sounds like you have a great understanding on how this works.

 

[The Game 161]

Well at least they have sorted out the issue of overheating..wonder if they bring out a black version of the air power.

 

[newyorksole]

Hurry up with the new AirPods, I’m having battery and charging problems with my 2 year old pair.

Something tells me new AirPods won’t be out until the fall. They can capitalize off of AirPower and the wireless case now. AirPods 2.0 for the holiday season.

 

[The Game 161]

Something tells me new AirPods won’t be out until the fall. They can capitalize off of AirPower and the wireless case now. AirPods 2.0 for the holiday season.

Which from a business standpoint makes the most sense.

 

[justperry]

Apple patent trolling

10,000 new patents to be submitted

"Inductively chargeable [thing that uses a rechargeable battery]"
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Already available for $30

The wireless charging case seems to be a steal, that guy/presenter though....Ugh, can't he just have one shot with a script.

 

[apolloa]

I thought they had contacts and weren’t inductive? I’ll have to check mine later..

 

[sos47]

i see wireless charging for earpods and apple watch but not so for iphone and ipads. just make the battery a little bigger for iphone and ipad

 

[cmaier]

I thought they had contacts and weren’t inductive? I’ll have to check mine later..

This is about inductively charging the battery in the case, no?

 

[falainber]

Go ahead and point to any device that intelligently determines which charging coils to activate regardless of orientation while also accounting for dangerous objects (like keys or paperclips) left on a charging surface.

There’s a lot more to AirPower than just “more coils”, you may not acknowledge that innovation in hard engineering problems is indeed innovation but it is.

Here is one.

 

[goobot]

i see wireless charging for earpods and apple watch but not so for iphone and ipads. just make the battery a little bigger for iphone and ipad

iPad doesn’t have wireless charging. Also based on how the internals of the iPhone look I don’t think you would be really gaining any battery if you removed it from iPhones.

 

[NT1440]

Here is one.

Ah there you go, it has some limitations that AirPower doesn’t (this requires a specific location for the watch) but cool nonetheless.

 

[PKoz]

Been waiting for this for forever. I'll buy two of these the day they are announced. I want all charging cables to DIE. I hate them almost as much as I hate wires for headphones. BE GONE!

 

[Khedron]

Ah there you go, it has some limitations that AirPower doesn’t (this requires a specific location for the watch) but cool nonetheless.

AirPower has the limitation of needing to open or remove the band to charge the watch

 

[NT1440]

AirPower has the limitation of needing to open or remove the band to charge the watch

You don’t know that, and Apple’s patent includes an air hockey-like puck that takes care of that limitation.

 

[The Game 161]

AirPower has the limitation of needing to open or remove the band to charge the watch

I imagine you will be able to put it down even on a loop and it should detect it through the band to charge...i’m Sure apple have thought of this issue.

 

[citysnaps]

So sixteen charging coils instead of 1. Such innovation.

Apparently you don't understand why.

 

[The Game 161]

Been waiting for this for forever. I'll buy two of these the day they are announced. I want all charging cables to DIE. I hate them almost as much as I hate wires for headphones. BE GONE!

Two? One for work?

 

[44267547]

i see wireless charging for earpods and apple watch but not so for iphone and ipads. just make the battery a little bigger for iphone and ipad

The iPad was never rumored to utilize any wireless charging methods as far as I know. The Airpower was solely manufactured to be compatible with the Watch, AirPods and iPhone. As for battery life, why would the iPhone need a bigger battery? Isn’t that what the iPhone Max is for? Apple’s battery life across the board for the iPad and iPhone can easily supersede it’s battery rating, with the help of settings and of course ones usage.

 

[Khedron]

Been waiting for this for forever. I'll buy two of these the day they are announced. I want all charging cables to DIE. I hate them almost as much as I hate wires for headphones. BE GONE!

Even the maximum theoretical possible AirPower charging rate, which hasn't even been confirmed, would be half the charging rate of a quick charge adapter.

AirPower is more likely to be 4-6 times slower, and that's assuming you only charge one device.

 

[PKoz]

Even the maximum theoretical possible AirPower charging rate, which hasn't even been confirmed, would be half the charging rate of a quick charge adapter.

AirPower is more likely to be 4-6 times slower, and that's assuming you only charge one device.

I have multipeBelkin wireless chargers now. What I like is that I don't have a cable dangling anywhere. I have a pad. And I normally put my phone down on my desk. I put it on the pad rather than just on wood and it's charging. The pad is much better. There is no "act" of plugging it in. Just set it on the pad and it's recharging.

 

[Ortiz83]

Here is one.

“Any orientation” being the keyword on his post.
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Two? One for work?

I need 4. One for my side table, wife’s side table, son’s side table, and one for the living room.

 

[PKoz]

Two? One for work?

Heck yeah. One for home, one for work. Maybe even three. I have two Belkin chargers now but I really want the AirPod changing too. I hate having a cable sitting there waiting to be plugged into something. A pad you just set your phone on and your airpods is great. I have the special watch charger that your watch sits magnetically attaches to from Apple. I'll likely keep using that for the watch. But I can't wait to get the AirPods that wirelessly charge.

I really don't like wires everywhere. Pretty soon we'll have desk surfaces that wirelessly charge our laptops and other devices. Seems like we could do that right now.

 

[trifid]

Apple, almost 10 years late to the inductive charging revolution, and now patent trolling. Unbelievable.
[doublepost=1550623185][/doublepost]I bought this back in 2011, 1 dock, 1 coil, awesome inductive charging stand for HP's Touchpad: