Prosser: iPhone 12 MagSafe Battery Pack to Feature Reverse Charging

[A MacBook lover]

Biggest reason I don’t own more electronics is due to wires.
1 wire to charge 3 devices? Sold

 

[nutmac]

Looks good. MagSafe opens up many new use cases.

I wish someone would make MagSafe Smart Cover with credit card pockets.

 

[A MacBook lover]

Because they don't. Prosser is more accurate than Kuo. Love2Dream and Gurman are in their own league.

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[Apple_Robert]

Price?

im expecting a serious stripping of one’s wallet. $149/$229 for the two models

I would consider it if the battery pack lasted a long time.

 

[craigmak]

Prosser doesn't even understand the stories he makes up.

Reverse charging for a battery can only mean one thing — the device (iPhone) would be charging the battery.
Like anyone would do that

I was thinking that. If you still plug in your phone you could charge the battery using MagSafe with the phone. Or the the MagSafe plug can charge the battery and then that same surface is used to charge the phone when on the go.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Found prossers macrumors account

2015 called. It wants its joke back.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

This is the first example of a MagSafe peripheral that makes sense to me.

 

[jclo]

Why does phone charging the pack not make sense? That way you’d just plug the phone in and it would charge the pack. Saves a connector on the pack.

Just a heads up, I took this line out. It was worded confusingly, and that would be the iPhone doing the reverse charging, not the battery pack.

 

[jz0309]

Reverse charging is very inefficient, more than twice the losses... hence, not environmentally friendly...

not that I cannot see the convenience, but really, I think rather than spending engineering efforts on this they should spend those resources on making eg the iPhone 1 or 2 mm thicker and increase battery life that way...

 

[A MacBook lover]

2015 called. It wants its joke back.

So you don’t deny it?

 

[havenyoung]

presumably this means that the battery pack will be able to charge an iPhone 12 while also charging AirPods from the other side at the same time.

I'm sorry so this means a battery pack charing two devices at the same time. Where is the "reverse" part?

 

[gaximus]

If the charging device charges from both sides, it's not really reverse charging, its just charging from both sides. Reverse charging would be that it uses your phone battery to charge something else.

 

[cmaier]

Just a heads up, I took this line out. It was worded confusingly, and that would be the iPhone doing the reverse charging, not the battery pack.

Ok, thanks for letting me know. I was very confused.

 

[flopticalcube]

If the charging device charges from both sides, it's not really reverse charging, its just charging from both sides. Reverse charging would be that it uses your phone battery to charge something else.

Only if the phone featured reverse charging. In this case, its the battery pack that supposedly has that capability.

 

[x-evil-x]

The battery is still a bulky device attached to iPhone. I would rather have Apple stop slowing down the phone and battery life so that i stopped having to buy additional Apple devices.

How about slowing down the performance of the phone to save you battery life. If you are ok with that apple will help you out without telling you.

 

[jclo]

Ok, thanks for letting me know. I was very confused.

Yeah, we're not sure what is meant by the reverse charging claim, honestly, so hopefully Prosser's renders coming later this week will provide more information.

 

[ColdShadow]

Looks bulky and awkward to use just like that terrible hunch case.

 

[Romeo_Nightfall]

Why does phone charging the pack not make sense? That way you’d just plug the phone in and it would charge the pack. Saves a connector on the pack.

That’s probably what’s it.

the other idea is plain stupid and not reverse charging.

 

[Anson_431]

I find it kinda funny that all those "leakers" publish their reports right after Gurman's and Kuo's. Never before.

*no one would notice*🤫🤫🤫

While I'm at it: It's just really entertaining to see the comment section literally blew up when that P person is mentioned lol

AND: reverse charging for a BATTERY PACK. <- Let's allow that to sink in for a second shall we?

 

[_Spinn_]

A MagSafe battery pack could be very useful.

 

[Lemon Olive]

Yeah it is clear that MagSafe is what the battery pack world has been waiting for (it has been one ugly, kludgy scene for years).

The best part is that you could carry one of these in your pocket and only attach when your phone is getting low.

Or you know, you could just charge responsibly and never need any such thing. But that's too much to ask from some people.

 

[filchermcurr]

Won't this just fall off like the wallet? I feel like I missed a crucial detail somewhere...

 

[hamidb83]

Wouldn’t the reverse charging on the battery mean using MagSafe it could be charged and then charge your device using the same surface? So you could use you MagSafe plug to charge the battery but then then when on the go use the battery to charge the phone. Or even if you still plug in your phone to charge use MagSafe to charge battery pack?

This makes more sense than any other approach. You want to be able to charge your battery pack and iPhone with a single cable. Either magsafe or lighting. I assume the battery pack has no ports. You attach your battery pack and then plugin your phone.

 

[samlikesmac]

Calling it now, if they release both it’ll be at least $129 for the regular and $159 for the reverse charging one lmao. Apple never misses an opportunity to shock us with the price of a “basic” device.

 

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Williams: Yes.
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