Sketchy Rumor Suggests iPhone 7 Will Feature Faster Charging Speeds

[admob71]

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.

This isnt the 18th century anymore.. there a word for electricity travelling from one point to another without wires.. LIGHTENING!!

Enjoy the rest of Your day.

 

[gr8whtd0pe]

I've seen some people here asking for wireless charging, but what's the point? You don't stick a cable in your phone, that's it? I just don't see the usefulness in that. I do have something that might be useful: put a bigger battery in it, maybe then we don't have to charge the phone every 4 hours.

My truck has wireless charging built into the center console. I would like to be able to use that when listening to music or on a call without being tethered by a cord.

 

[bhayes444]

seems like the 6 and above models are being allowed to draw more. I stand corrected.

although in my testing, the 6s seems to be no different charging via 5w vs 12w.

Yeah, the 6s is the lone exception out of the 6 series of devices that does not fast charge. I believe I've seen a test that it finishes charging to 100% maybe 4 minutes faster with the iPad power adapter, but I wouldn't really count that. I was actually hoping Apple would've kept fast charging going on the entire 6s series. However, the fast charging you can do right now with most of the 6 series of devices is a long shot away from the quick charge technology employed by many other phone companies. Hopefully Apple can come up with something to close the gap.

 

[ksnell]

This isnt the 18th century anymore.. there a word for electricity travelling from one point to another without wires.. LIGHTENING!!

Enjoy the rest of Your day.

Actually the word is lightning, but kidding aside, I do really believe this will happen in the next couple of years. The technology would be too important to pass over if R&D learned how to implement it safely. We are talking about much smaller amounts of energy than lightning bolts.

 

[McCool71]

Why anybody would say you shouldn't need or want this capability is mind boggling. Welcome to the year 2016 my friend.

Wireless charging is one of the (many) things that for some reason is pure crap when anyone else does it, but will suddenly turn out to be be super useful and practical as soon as it becomes a standard feature on Apple products. Just wait and see.

 

[C DM]

This isnt the 18th century anymore.. there a word for electricity travelling from one point to another without wires.. LIGHTENING!!

Enjoy the rest of Your day.

Indeed, it's not the 18th, or 19th, or even the 20th century, we've moved beyond just pure emotional off-the-cuff type of "MAGIC" response and take on things.

 

[ghost187]

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

Same here, we'd be lucky to get something that's as good next year. Honestly, I'm on T-Mobile jump on demand and I might just try the Note 7 till the September iPhone event. The fact that it has usb type c alone makes my life much easier because one cable one adapter chargers everything with my retina macbook.

 

[VTECaddict]

I've seen some people here asking for wireless charging, but what's the point? You don't stick a cable in your phone, that's it? I just don't see the usefulness in that. I do have something that might be useful: put a bigger battery in it, maybe then we don't have to charge the phone every 4 hours.

Cars are now coming with wireless charging areas built in now. Throw your phone on the pad when you get in, and you don't need to worry about cables in the car. IKEA has some furniture with built in wireless charging now.

As more and more devices come with it, the chargers will become more and more ubiquitous, and the convenience/usefulness will increase. Think of things like restaurants and coffee shops with built in wireless charging at the tables, or hotels with built in wireless charging on their night stands. (Starbucks kind of started this, but they're using Powermat and not Qi...which is what most devices use).

It's like wireless mice or keyboards or headphones. Is it really that hard to plug it in? No, of course not. But it's convenient.

 

[Neodym]

I'm in bed, I want to check something, I just pick the phone up off the pad, use it, and put it back on, all in the dark, and letting me roll over without ripping the cable out of the phone. Apple made this use case even worse with Lightning because the connector is so small.

Umm - what other (current) connector would better than Lightning in that situation? The ubiquitous Mini-/Micro-USB is about the same size _and_ not orientation agnostic.

 

[Shirasaki]

Clearly until you have it you won't understand how damn useful it is.

Certainly the standing wireless charger that samsung have out. No need to worry about finding a cable at night and needing to switch the light on to find the port. Just put it on the charger and connects straight away. Even better with Always on display on the samsung phones to see the time at night when you randomly wake up. Most samsung users will tell you it's a feature that you would miss not having.

Then it could be even better when you enter your bedroom, all your devices are starting charging, without putting it on a pad. True wireless charging.
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I'm still not convinced. I always charge my phone to 100% before I go to sleep. And when I go to sleep, I'm out until the alarm goes off. Anyways, wireless charging should be less of a priority than a bigger battery, I do hope we can all agree on that.

Apple just need to persuade executives to thicken their iPhone to 7-8mm, put a much larger battery, include a wireless charging module. Problem solved, and everyone is happy. Obsessed on thinness is not the way technology evolving.

 

[617aircav]

Wireless charging is nothing special. Had it on my s6. I don't hate it and I don't miss it. It's an extra perk but not a deal breaker.

 

[xflashx]

I doubt that we'll see "true" wireless charging so your phone can charge across your room. Wireless charging happens through induction, a magnetic field that induces electric voltage in your device which charges your battery. This magnetic field decreases proportional to your distance. For example when you double your distance from the "power router" the field is only 1/4 as strong, so you need 4 times as much input energy to keep the magnetic field as strong as it used to be. This physical law limits your range in which your device can charge wirelessly.
So we may get a wireless charging solution that may work in a limited Radius (e.g. Maybe a few meters) but I highly doubt that we'll be able to charge a device across a whole room or even a whole house in the near future. Just imagine how much power it would need to do so, I believe the socket can't even provide so much energy and thus the socket itself limits the radius you are able to charge your device wirelessly. Also you would have to pay money for energy that gets "lost" and is never used. But yeah even a "limited" wireless charging solution (e.g. within a meter) is pretty cool. I hope apple will introduce this feature in the iP7

 

[Deadman64]

I doubt that we'll see "true" wireless charging so your phone can charge across your room. Wireless charging happens through induction, a magnetic field that induces electric voltage in your device which charges your battery. This magnetic field decreases proportional to your distance. For example when you double your distance from the "power router" the field is only 1/4 as strong, so you need 4 times as much input energy to keep the magnetic field as strong as it used to be. This physical law limits your range in which your device can charge wirelessly.
So we may get a wireless charging solution that may work in a limited Radius (e.g. Maybe a few meters) but I highly doubt that we'll be able to charge a device across a whole room or even a whole house in the near future. Just imagine how much power it would need to do so, I believe the socket can't even provide so much energy and thus the socket itself limits the radius you are able to charge your device wirelessly. Also you would have to pay money for energy that gets "lost" and is never used. But yeah even a "limited" wireless charging solution (e.g. within a meter) is pretty cool. I hope apple will introduce this feature in the iP7

Google energous! They have *seemed* to have solved a number of the issues you bring up. Their site is very informative on their technology. They currently are partnered with a mystery tier 1 partner and they are expecting to make a lot of money on their long range solution in one year time (2017 iPhone is in one year...).