Smart Dock with Orientation-Aware Functionality, Induction Charging Detailed in Apple Patent

[mrxak]

No no no no.

I remember people posting here that that only recently, that induction charging was stupid and something most people here, who posted on the subject, don't want, and said how rubbish it was as a concept.

It still is.

 

[Tech198]

This seems cool..

However, apart from the fact its "smart' the point you can place the phone anyway, how is this a product ?

We have these now, there called docks, You stick your phone up-right to charge....

In any case, its not exactly that "smart" since you still need to use a dock...

From the point of it also it for data transfer too seems convenient...but apart from that multiple device docks can be had from third parties.

 

[bobob]

the logic and benefit of having induction charging in my mind is that the phone would have no port and could make way for a waterproof iphone (maybe)...

Sure the lightning port is here to stay for the foreseeable future, but if this inductive charging takes off, you'll never know what could happen.

The Lightning connector is not holding back a waterproof iPhone/iWatch - - it is already waterproof by design.