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Pixel 10 Leak Reveals MagSafe-Like Wireless Charging Thanks to Apple
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But if you want it in landscape format, like you might want to use the standby feature, it doesn’t do that. Having it square would ensure it aligned whether in portrait of landscape.
LMAO, I love how petty this is, because Google and their hardware partners and Android users always love putting out commercials and comments about how Apple is so behind and how Android has had that for years. This is perfect.
Apple knew if they didn't put this out, they'd be forced to change to whatever inferior design was formed by the rest of the industry since the EU will make them adopt it.
Now that this is open source, I need to research if there are any black Qi2 chargers available. The whole thing from the puck to a longer braided cable.
I still don’t get what all the hoopla is about ANY wireless charging for iPhone. Wireless charging is notoriously very slow, many iPhones and the chargers get quite hot, and you still need to plug one end of the cable into the wall…why not just use the regular charger?
My rental car had a wireless charger and my iPhone was incredibly hot after about 20 minutes on it. Dangerously hot if you ask me.
My rental car had a wireless charger and my iPhone was incredibly hot after about 20 minutes on it. Dangerously hot if you ask me.
Let's say you're at zero percent battery but you want to take your phone to go for a walk around town, the park, the gym treadmill, whatever...with a small magsafe powerbank, you just snap it on and voila, you've got a working phone - no need to sit by a wall and wait. You can be on the go charging while you move around; no dangling power banks, etc. You can even pocket it and it'll charge more easily, because again, there's no dangling wires that might get accidentally bent or disconnected in pocket or small space. It's kind of like how we used have removable batteries. But with qi2, you can leave your phone case *on*. You just snap on a battery and you're good to go. It would be nice if they improve the wattage to go beyond 25 watts, up to 50 watts for the next iteration, maybe improve the thermals so it stays cooler even when charging fast; but I think the basic idea as stated above, with regards to ease of use for snap on batteries are good reasons for *some* "hoopla".
but sometimes I and many others *want* our devices at an angle relative to the mount....
And how it should be
This would be much better design as it would auto align to either portrait or landscape positions. And you also don't need the additional lower magnet to orientate items attached
MagSafe was a nice gift by Apple for the Qi2 standard but it makes the lack of MagSafe in the iPhone 16e perplexing. It'll be interesting to see if the iPhone 17e adopts the Qi2 standard and thus gains MagSafe.
Apple could have done this with Lightning as well back in 2012. It was a far superior connector (single sold piece). They’re decision backfired when USB c took over and they were ultimately forced to adapt.
Standby doesn't rely on puck alignment, it relies on your phone being rotated. I can rotate a powerbank 360deg but if my phone is in portrait Standby never gets enabled. The puck being circular or square is irrelevant.
Not only does Walmart not accept Apple Pay or Google Pay their payment terminals don’t even accept “Tap To Pay”. You can only insert the card and if that fails it forces you to swipe. At least that’s at every Walmart in Northeast and North-central Florida.
I hope that google have implemented this standard.
Not in the market for a pixel but hate all these proprietary charging solutions that the smartphone and wearables revolution have bought us.
And no, I’m not the EU 🇪🇺!
Hmmm…I’ve never heard of a snap on wireless battery bank. Sure, that is pretty cool I guess…depending on price and how well it actually works etc. I was talking about the traditional wireless charging stations that you plug into the wall. Thanks for the intro to wireless charging banks
The bigger win is how much better and out of the way the Pixel 10 camera bump looks than the iPhone 17 mockups or S25…
When we welcome them all to 2009 with the Palm Pre and its magnetic wireless charger 😉
Once upon a time Apple announced FaceTime as an open standard. Would be nice if they went back to that.
SJ might have said that, but even at launch FT has never been an actual open standard.
Didnt they mean the video calls in that way to become standard? Sorry i dont know your age but i remember back in the day all we really used for video calls was MSN or Skype with a big ol webcam on your monitor. Video calls just werent a thing. Facetime-type of video calling really became the standard. I dont think they meant actual FaceTime to be industry wide standard.
The whole statement is so old that FaceTime from that era doesn’t even work anymore which really bugs me because I’d love to make FaceTime calls with my iOS 6 devices.
Steve did say FaceTime was going to be an open standard. I believe the first time the team heard that was when Steve announced it at the keynote 😂
The explanation as to why it never happened was apparently because of a patent troll. Don’t know if that’s just an excuse or if there is validity behind it. Cnet did a story about “whatever happened to open FaceTime” a few years ago.
No. It was announced as open standard when iPhone 4 was announced, but due to legal and technical reasons it never came to fruition.