It'll be a huge upgrade though, the cameras alone have gotten worlds better, not to mention the performance and battery life. The 12 Pro Max is a marvel compared to what came before. Can't wait to see what's next.
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iPhone 13 May Support 25W Fast Charge Power Adapter
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Your issue is #3- too cheap to include charger in box we used to get for the same phone pricing. Their reason was we all already have those chargers. Well not if they keep changing the brick wattage we don't. 18 to 20 to 25 in 3 years.
But remember, we'll keep killing the environment with shipping and packaging for all of those millions of new chargers.
Puhlease, it has been and always will be a money grab with the chargers to save money charging the same for the phone, and selling the $20 brick on top. Let's let a little bit of real-life business 01 reality hit here.
Notice that they want a wattage that nothing else they sell before uses- it's always some odd wattage for a new brick to sell you. It's an excuse to sell yet another brick at $20. Until the year after they change it again a few watts to sell millions of more bricks.
Or how about make a charger that can charge at 5w overnight OR fast when you need it with a button push. Innovation! (Apple can have that idea for free). But if Apple says the brick can be used they have done testing at that wattage over time and fast charging should at that wattage should not cause significant declines in battery health.
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why do I want to plug it into a mac when everything is can be done wireless?
I mean pennies. Probably a tiny bit beefier internals. To a company like Apple? Pennies per brick.
But then they cant sell you a new one each year at the new wattage- 2019 18W, 2020 20W, 2021 25W.
I know people love fast charging... but...
I bought one of those new Anker Nano 20W chargers. The little tiny one.
That little sucker gets hot! And my iPhone does too!
Is it safe to use this sort of fast charger regularly?
I have the same charger I use for my iPad Pro and it’s gets slightly warm but thats it. Not extremely hot. I actually use it for my phone top (non-Apple). Came with a 65 watt charger but screw that, I don’t get the obsession with this extreme charging tech but I’m not really interested in it. 20-25 watt is fine for me and that’s still pushing it as far as I’m concerned.
I kinda stick with the 80/30 charging routine and rarely let it get down that low so my gear usually isn’t on the charger that long anyway.
80 percent after 40 months isn’t ruined. That’s a great lifespan for one battery.
And fast charging is fine if you keep it within certain parameters. Like not going from 0 to 100 everyday. It’s fine in that 30-35 to 80 percent range, fast charging or not. Short spurts are also better but it’s honestly nothing anyone should stress out about if your swapping out your phone every 2 or 3 years anyway.
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You have blown my mind. Why the hell did i not think of it?
whaaaa?
It actually makes sense?!
They never will unless forced to somewhere else, they love collecting royalties from companies using their Proprietary lightning technology
It optimizes and sits at 80% most of the night and tops off before I wake up.
Interesting, but do a lot of people really need to fully recharge in 30 mins?
Probably not. But those that do probably appreciates to have the ability when/if needed however infrequently that might happen. But are you implying that just because a function is not wanted/used by every single person then it should not exist at all? Would that really be better in your opinion?
I’m glad it brought you some happinessThat gave me quite the giggle
Lol. Bro didn’t you now this?! Where were you when Nokia had over 70 phones, no more than 10 sharing batteries, cables, chargers, charging battery docks, etc.
Exactly.
Back in the old days of the flip-phone... hardly anyone could share the same charging cable.
I had a Motorola... gf had an LG... buddy had a Samsung... etc. Then there was Audiovox, Ericsson... the list goes on and on.
Hell... even the same manufacturer could use different cables. It was a mess.
At least now the charging cable situation is a little better.
On the device-end of the cable... we've got Apple (Lightning) and everyone else (USB-C)
Though we're still figuring out the charger-end of the cable... USB-A vs USB-C
Personally... every new charger I buy is now USB-C... so at least that end of my cables will be standardized.
Yes. We cannot be sure about the improvement until we actually see it. I use the 10W adapter I got with the iPad mini and it’s not significantly slower than what you would get with Fast Charging.
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