I agree. It has not been implemented well in the past. Maybe apple can come up with something better. It does look good, and apple has historically chosen form over function.
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iPhone 8 to Feature All-Glass Casing in Order to Support Wireless Charging
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A lot of people mentioning charging mats which is inductive charging. Apple will never do that. It's not a game changer and it's pretty gimmicky IMO.
If apple implements wireless charging it will very likely be RF based (I.e. Wifi). You'll have a wireless power "router" in your home that manages when a device needs power and stops sending power when it's full. If you really want to see how this will be implemented google energous or watt up. Exciting times!
If apple implements wireless charging it will very likely be RF based (I.e. Wifi). You'll have a wireless power "router" in your home that manages when a device needs power and stops sending power when it's full. If you really want to see how this will be implemented google energous or watt up. Exciting times!
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Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.
The other day my little girl asked to play with my collection of old iPhones (pretty much every non-C model dating back to the original iPhone). The original and the glass are definitely my favorites.
I'm not sure how this is news and not speculation, but there isn't anything in this article that's significantly different than rumors that have been floating around for at least a year, so no one should be surprised.
The devil is in the details, and we don't know any of them:
If it's a sturdy phone and the wireless charging allows you to charge and use the phones port at the same time most people won't complain about construction, although they might complain about price, especially if the wireless charger is expensive. But right now, we don't have enough reliable information to be either singing praises or damnations about what the phone is, or isn't.
The devil is in the details, and we don't know any of them:
- How fragile is the case? Will the phone survive a drop test from the same height as the current phone?
- What type of wireless charging, mat or proximity?
- How slippery will the phone be without a case?
- Are there cases that won't work with wireless charging?
- What else is being planned, or removed, that no one has reported yet?
If it's a sturdy phone and the wireless charging allows you to charge and use the phones port at the same time most people won't complain about construction, although they might complain about price, especially if the wireless charger is expensive. But right now, we don't have enough reliable information to be either singing praises or damnations about what the phone is, or isn't.
That's why they've been developing a way to mass produce LiquidMetal for about 5 years now. It's stronger than steel from an impact standpoint, and it's 100% RF transparent.
Next year Apple will come out with it's 10th anniversary iPhone with a AMOLED screen and 4GB of RAM. Android makers will say they have done that for the last 2 years. Apple sheeple will say they don't care and run screaming like teenage girls at a Bieber concert to the near Apple store. Because you know, if Apple does it 2 years later, it has to be better. No wonder he wants to leave. He can't be innovative. He has to follow, several steps behind.
If it were all glass I wonder if they could put efficient solar cells on the back of the phone. Or a screen on both sides. Someone also suggested no orientation - the phone works the same no matter how you pick it up because it has no physical buttons. The iPhone7 definitely moved in that buttonless direction and a glass phone could extend that path of thinking.
A universal orientation phone with solar charging would be pretty sweet... and an all glass phone would feel really nice in the hand.
A universal orientation phone with solar charging would be pretty sweet... and an all glass phone would feel really nice in the hand.
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I'm a little leery of this idea of wireless charging over the air like wifi. Could that possibly be healthy to be near? Sounds like it would be a pocket of cancerous radiation to be near something like that.
The iPhone 7 had less memory than the Galaxy S7 this year. Despite that, it could run more programs faster than the S7. Quote from a comparison of the 2 phones from DigitalTrends.com:
"Turning to benchmarks, the iPhone 7 wins by a landslide. The iPhone 7 scored a whopping 178,397 on AnTuTu's benchmarks, putting pretty much every other smartphone out there to shame. The Galaxy S7 scored 134,599, which still puts it ahead of most other phones out there, but it can't keep up with the new iPhone. "
There are a lot of things you can complain about with iPhones in general and the iPhone 7 in particular, but performance vs Android phones isn't one of them. The best Android has more memory but the iPhone can run more apps and switch between them faster. If you're going to compare you should highlight having an sd card slot, a headphone jack and longer battery life, because the extra memory isn't giving you better speed, allowing more apps to be open, or running those apps faster.
You are comparing the iPhone 7 to the S7 which is 7 months older the iPhone. When the S8 comes out it will be faster than the iPhone 7. It's a point of diminishing returns. Microsecond improvements on speed is meaningless. Innovative is no longer a term used with smartphones. Incremental is the new word. Being able to switch apps 3 tenths of a second faster is meaningless.
The main problem with this, is that it will be wireless charging like we already have, no magical streaming beams of electricity from 10 feet away, and it will be Apples usual locked down overpriced licensed to profit standards....
Not the idea of an iPhone catching up to three years ago, but the fact it will be Apple expensive and Apple locked down, no Qi charging for instance.
Not the idea of an iPhone catching up to three years ago, but the fact it will be Apple expensive and Apple locked down, no Qi charging for instance.
Really think it's going to be distance charging.
Otherwise they're going to look pretty silly.
There's no reason to have waited so long or to convert to a glass case just to do the same Qi standard mat charging.
"Energous’ technology involves more than just a charging mat to lay devices on top of. The company’s transmitter broadcasts proprietary waveforms directly to receivers and then surrounds those receivers with a radio frequency “pocket” that charges devices. The signals can travel up to 15 feet, and up to 12 devices can be charged at once"
http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/15/p...n-wireless-charging-is-hidden-in-plain-sight/
http://energous.com
Otherwise they're going to look pretty silly.
There's no reason to have waited so long or to convert to a glass case just to do the same Qi standard mat charging.
"Energous’ technology involves more than just a charging mat to lay devices on top of. The company’s transmitter broadcasts proprietary waveforms directly to receivers and then surrounds those receivers with a radio frequency “pocket” that charges devices. The signals can travel up to 15 feet, and up to 12 devices can be charged at once"
http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/15/p...n-wireless-charging-is-hidden-in-plain-sight/
http://energous.com
Wireless has very real limits—mostly for safety reasons. You're talking about a non-negligible amount of ERP around people. It's one thing to talk about transmitting a few milliwatts next to your head. It's quite another when you're talking about high single-digit watts. That makes the old analog cell phones look like toys by comparison.... You want to talk about cancer fears... at those power levels, they'll actually be legitimate causes for concern.
The Galaxy S7 processor was slower than the iPhone 6s, despite being almost a year newer. Not by much, but it was slower in benchmark tests. https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/...-820-vs-apple-a9-iphone-6s/amp/?client=safari
Power adapters and charging is the biggest nuissance in the industralized world.
We need a solution that allows devices to be charged automatically, in your pocket or wherever you have them.
It would be nice if the iPhone could charge other devices as well, when you are on the move, like Airpods or the Apple Watch.
We need a solution that allows devices to be charged automatically, in your pocket or wherever you have them.
It would be nice if the iPhone could charge other devices as well, when you are on the move, like Airpods or the Apple Watch.
