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Apple's New MagSafe Charger and Cases Begin Arriving to Customers
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As with the Apple Watch, there will be stands for it. Which is what I am hoping for and which would alleviate a two hand operation as well as having somewhere to place it on the night stand.
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And as with the Solo Loop band, another obvious kind of thing, it really does require a company with the economy of scale to make it work and be worth it. Making a lot of different size wrist bands for a watch no one buys doesnt make sense. Adding a lot of magnets to a smartphone that will not sell well also doesnt make a lot of sense.
Apple’s economy of scale is what makes it work, and it will help a lot of small third-party accessory makers.
The point is that it will presumably take less effort to just place your phone onto the wireless charging pad and just lift it off the pad when you are done,
Vs plugging in a cable into your phone to charge it, and then unplugging it when you are done charging.
Your usb-c charger should be directly plugged in to the wall socket, unless you are running it off a multi-socket extension.
It's up to the user to decide whether this is worth their time and money. For me, I admit I do find wireless charging more convenient than wired when charging my phone overnight, and Anker-brand wireless charging pads are dirt cheap on amazon, though I suspect the extra heat produced this way may have led to my phone's battery capacity degrading a little faster than it would.
It is. That is how the magnet in the case sticks to the phone. Unlike old cases that required the case to wrap around the front of the phone to stay in place the magnet in the phone holds the magnet in the case.
There’s no data cable connected to your router? Far out.
Nope. What your post said was “A 1m cable is inconvenient at best and practically useless at worst.” If you can’t make a 1m cable work, then yes, I’d suggest it’s a personal use case. Just like me buying a .5m cable for my car to minimize the extra length.
If you want the cable to be removable, fine. That makes sense in this type of device - but not because Apple have chosen a ridiculous fixed cable length in this iteration.
So can we get MagSafe built into cars asap 😎😎😎
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3rd party options hopefully will.
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3rd party options hopefully will.
I’m in the U.S. and all my cards have chips and are tap to pay, so not sure what your on about.
You are in the wrong forum. Jokers to the left, clowns to the right.
With the Apple solution, there is no "just lifting it off the pad" - you can't. You have to physically pull apart the phone from the pad, akin to pulling out a cable from a lightning port. If you actually did use a lightning cable, you at least use longer ones and at least with some practicality still use the phone whilst charging - with the MagSafe, that is very impractical given the 1m ~ 3ft cable. Only Apple!!
I exclusively use "wireless" charging [I prefer to call it tetherless charging] and all my pads are actually stands and I never miss finding the sweet-spot for charging; if I miss the sweet-spot, I didn't put it on the stand!!
I also struggle to understand the wallet attachment; do you have that connected to the phone alll of the time, i.e. when putting into and pulling out of your pockets? If so, seems to me that is going to be an annoying snag during that process?
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- slightly quicker charging - hardly what I would call fast. Phones today are being shipped with 45 & 65w chargers and Oppo have a 125w one. I wouldn't describe it as wireless or even tetherless?
- has anyone ever really had a problem with not finding the charging spot?
- I would rather cases were wrap-around so the protect the screen edge?
- Why would you want a wallet that sticks to your phone? Credit cards are not needed if you are using any of NFC payments methods that Apple promote constantly? I can see that being a right pain in time pushing and pulling from your pocket.
- There have been magnetic phone holders for all eternity
- There may be one day a portless iPhone, but err, this isn't one, so not a benefit, unless you feel the need to practice for a couple of years?
Pull apart? You never have Apple Watch, do,you?
Never? Wow. There will always be one I guess.
What's with the attitude and the smart arse comments and what has a watch got to with anything.
This is a stupid product and offers zero benefit to anyone over above plugging a cable in; it is not even as useful as that!