Weird, because I'm 100% sure my iPT5 from 2012 charged faster with an iPad charger. 100%.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2580579?start=15&tstart=0
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Sketchy Rumor Suggests iPhone 7 Will Feature Faster Charging Speeds
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Weird, because I'm 100% sure my iPT5 from 2012 charged faster with an iPad charger. 100%.
Post from 2011
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2580579?start=15&tstart=0
It's placebo 100%.
The hardware simply just doesn't support it before the 6(not sure if the SE does)
Did you own one and charge it every day for three years using a variety of chargers like I did?
EDIT Here's another source, Oct 2012.
"For example, an older 10W iPad charger charges an iPhone slightly quicker than its own."
https://9to5mac.com/2012/10/24/appl...charge-ipads-quicker-than-older-10w-adapters/
How about a bigger battery instead?
They pretty much always come with bigger batteries.
iPhone - 1,400 mAh
iPhone 3G - 1,150 mAh
iPhone 3GS - 1,219 mAh
iPhone 4 - 1,420 mAh
iPhone 4S - 1,432 mAh
iPhone 5 - 1,440 mAh
iPhone 5C - 1,507 mAh
iPhone 5S - 1,570 mAh
iPhone 6 - 1,810 mAh
iPhone 6 Plus - 2,915 mAh
iPhone 6s - 1,715 mAh
iPhone 6s Plus - 2,750 mAh
For me, fast charging would be a welcome addition.
Why do I think that the folks giving this likes don't actually realise it's being ironic lol
Have a nice day sir.
Just because that is how you do things doesn't mean that is how others do it. Sure a bigger or longer lasting battery is a great thing to have. However it shouldn't be a higher priority because in this day and age the phone should have both. When I bought my S7E I hated the charging plug. The Apple lightning pug is so much better because it can be plugged in either way you hold it.
Well than i bought the wireless charging pad and that solved the problem, now the thought of having to plug the phone in at all seems dated. The fact that it has quick charge capabilities is a bonus. combine to this the fact it never gets left uncharged because it always sits on the charging pad when I set it down. You want to use your phone for a few minutes pick it up use it. When you set it back down on it's pad it charges the second you do so without any effort or thought.
Why anybody would say you shouldn't need or want this capability is mind boggling. Welcome to the year 2016 my friend.
The dock is the size of a phone, and still requires a cable, so i don't see the appeal of this what so ever!
Looking forward to the 7, but charging a Li battery faster is harder on the battery and can lead to overall capacity drop-off sooner as well. I remember chuckling when I saw Samsung was doing this (S6 or S7?) to their S series phones now that the batteries were sealed inside those - thinking those are going to become bricks much sooner now as their owners fast charged them all the time.
I'll be quite content with the current slow charge at 1A on the 7 and keep my battery capacity as high as possible for as long as possible. JMHO...
That sounds good, but we also know Apple is not going to go to bigger battery's. I see the desire for wireless charging as a much more possible "feature" addition for their customers than seriously larger batteries. Had a Nokia 920 and wireless charging is way convenient.
I'll be quite content with the current slow charge at 1A on the 7 and keep my battery capacity as high as possible for as long as possible. JMHO...
That sounds good, but we also know Apple is not going to go to bigger battery's. I see the desire for wireless charging as a much more possible "feature" addition for their customers than seriously larger batteries. Had a Nokia 920 and wireless charging is way convenient.
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I think the adoption rate from the 6S users will be low. I am a 6 user and will be buying the 7 (6SE?) this year and giving the 6 to my wife. I will then get the 10th anniversary version next year and give the 7 to my wife and so on an so on and so on.The iPad charger on my iPhone 6s Plus is great! If they could improve upon that further than awesome. Still not upgrading to what is essentially a 6ss year. I'll wait till 2017 for the true iPhone 7 with OLED
Better known as the "iPhone Circle of Life"
Well it is a good thing that the dock would be sold separately so you don't have to be burdened with this if you don't like it. It is simply another option for people that would like it. So if the phone can do it you simply wouldn't want it and you would also hope that others that like it couldn't have it just because you don't find it useful? I don't use every feature in my phone but better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I know right? I was watching detroitborg's review yesterday and man, that is one sexy looking phone! Coming from a biased Apple fan and Samsung hater
It seems like just an anecdotal type of statement there. It basically just comes down to the charger circuitry in the phone, as this article talks about, and until the iPhone 6 that circuitry only supported up to 1A of current, meaning that even with a more powerful power adapter the phone would still only draw no more than what it could draw from a 1A power adapter (which was the included 5W adapter).
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Many car keyfobs still have an actual key that still gets used to actually start the car, and yet the keyfobs are still very useful and have essentially become the standard in the car industry (even moving beyond to keyless ones).
I wonder why we don't think "Hey,, i can buy a 85W power adapter and charge my 60W Macbook Pro Early 2015 twice as fast" in exactly the same issue as users want to fast charge with an iPad adapter with iphone ..
I guess "on the move" has allot to do with it
I guess "on the move" has allot to do with it
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wireless charging would be a great feature to have on this phone paired WITH fast charging, I'm not a project design manager for Apple but it seems like a legit way to go to keep interest in the iPhone high and to stay current with competitors.
Oh wow. Fast charging.
If true, welcome to 2014 iPhone 7.
You say, without having seen the keynote, without having any idea of what actual real-world use statistics are for it, and without knowing much of anything about the current technology Apple might be incorporating aside from "faster charging".
Wireless charging isn't really a necessity, but it has a convenience to it that you don't really appreciate until you've used it. I'm using an Android device now (the horror! sigh), and I love to just set my phone down on the pad at my desk when I'm working. When I get up, I can just grab it and walk instead of having to deal with a cable. In the past, I'd usually just forget about it and leave it there or often never bother charging it in the first place. Sometimes to my later regret when the battery runs down in the evening.
With the Qi fast wireless charging protocol, it's no longer at nearly the disadvantage it was in the past compared to Qualcomm's Quick Charge. Admittedly, I still use a regular cable at night to charge instead of a wireless charging pad. But that's mainly because I keep forgetting to pick up a second pad. I should probably hop on Amazon and take care of that now, actually
.Anyhow, improved charging speeds--regardless of implementation--would be a huge step up for Apple. It's a shame that they haven't done so already. You don't realize how slowly your phone charges until you've used something else.
So live electricity is going to be flowing through the air? With respect sir, one word, cancer!! 2 words, fried nuts!!! No one is walking around a room charging a phone. Maybe long distance in their world means one or two inches tops. Anything else is quite frankly frightening..
Have a nice day sir..
With respect, technological advancements can be a scary thing, sir. We already hold cell phones against our ear everyday. I have no doubt there would be plenty of testing health risks during the R&D phase.
Can you imagine the first time a man saw electricity light a bulb? Must have thought it was magic and would kill him.
How about a bigger battery instead?
Yea. I don't want to be recharging the battery all the time. I want it to survive a normal workday work load even if I need to use it a bit more than usual. When I start charging it I don't care how long it takes as long as it charges to full during the night. I'm already able to pop it into my external charger at work for a hour and get a healthy boost to the battery life. I don't need it to go back to 100%. The problem is that most days I don't get to go to the office and it's a real pain in the ass to try to charge the damned device when you're moving around constantly.
And no, external batteries aren't a solution even though Apple probably loves it. They almost feel like a dongle!