Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging Modules for iPhone 8

[Michaelgtrusa]

Sounds like Apple outsourced some dev work, this is how QT issues and job loss occur.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Get rid of the mic and speakers and screen. Siri as the only interface and external bluetooth for phone calling.

 

[groovyd]

Long distance wireless charging has many problems... personally i'd prefer a simple mat to place the devices on. something that could double as a mouse pad and keeps the mouse charged as well.

 

[blackcrayon]

This is not correct. A battery doesn't have to be drained to 0 and recharged to register a charge cycle. If that were true then my battery would register about 2 charge cycles in 2 years because it almost never gets to zero.

If only it were as you claim. In that magical world, as long as you never let it get to 0% charge, you'd never have a charge cycle and your battery could last forever without any ill effects.

I think you misunderstood the post you quoted. It was correct, a full discharge and recharge is a single cycle, and any portion of that is an equivalent portion of a cycle. E.g. Going down to 66% then charging back up registers 33% or 1/3 of a charge cycle.
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Why not let customers set the charge parameters? Automatically charge if phone goes below X. If you know you're going out, gaming, or doing something intensive, toggle to manual setting if needed. That doesn't seem like a complicated scenario.

It's not a complicated scenario, but it's just not very helpful or practical. Most people want their phone at the highest % they can get it when they yank it off the charger. Trying to micromanage using and not using it really isn't worth it in the long term. We just need batteries that can withstand more charge cycles.

 

[gkarris]

and it will come with a $300 increase

and a health risk having that Wi-Electricity running throughout the house and your body...

 

[au003]

Seems like 2017 will be a better year than 2016.

 

[69Mustang]

It's not a complicated scenario, but it's just not very helpful or practical. Most people want their phone at the highest % they can get it when they yank it off the charger. Trying to micromanage using and not using it really isn't worth it in the long term. We just need batteries that can withstand more charge cycles.

We have to deal with the realities of what is vs what we would like. The realities of our current battery tech dictates a common sense practical approach. Constantly topping off a battery that's at 90% or above isn't practical or really useful for that matter. Having the ability to set a battery percentage threshold and toggle charging on/off is not micromanaging, it common sense. Just because the phone can charge wirelessly, doesn't mean we want it to always be charging.

 

[ayokkay]

Why?

Past hardware mistakes made. (loss of money)
Apple will lose a lot this year (iPhone 7 and new mbp mistakes)
Must recoup soon.

 

[dampfnudel]

Let's watch them do it, hear people moan about it, then see how sales are through the roof anyway

iPhone 7 sales will show the way.

 

[ignatius345]

Next up: zero ports, zero buttons. Just a slab of glass.

 

[begemotik228]

THIS is real wireless charging, and this is why Apple waited so long to implement a far more convenient solution, rather than just jump on the band wagon by including a "wireless" mat that you lay your phone on, which is connected by... a wire.

You surely know that it's going to be so different and amazing, don't you?

 

[sparky08]

Another industry leading innovation from Apple!!