Two-Way Wireless Charging and Larger Batteries Coming to 2019 iPhones

Watch them announce it in the iPhone XSS or whatever they're calling things now and it gets the iPhone delayed for a year and a half and Apple never recovers because holy crap the iPhone went 2 and a half years without an update.
 
ipedro said:
Let me propose a name for the feature: Since there are no wires and power goes through thin air...let’s call it... wait for it... “AirPower”. Brilliant huh?
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You think you're kidding...they just spent money on securing the ™. I think it could very well be destined for this.
 
If this works with the watch it'll be awesome, I hardly ever need my watch charged during the day, but there has been a few times I forgot to charge at night, or got bumped off the charger. Would be great to just plug my phone in at work and charge my watch. A lot more lightning cables laying around than watch chargers.
 
dannyyankou said:
This could be pretty cool. Charge your iPhone on a qi charger overnight, and put your AirPods on top.
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That is probably the only use case I see here that makes even a little bit of sense. And I don't think that is what they're going for at all. You're gonna have to charge through the back, and no way will you be able to charge and send charge at the same time.
Sad really. But that's Apple now.
 
BC2009 said:
UPDATE: How about a Smart Cover or Smart Folio that draws power from the iPad and has embedded Qi charging coils.
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You know what, that, with some minor additions, would basically fix the Apple charging ecosystem problem I have been complaining about to myself (needing too many cables, power bricks, etc), and it would be even better than an Airpower would have been. What I want is to have the Smart Folio with 4 charging coils, 1 for Watch, one for iPhone (7.5 watts, or possibly 10 watts for a future iPhone), 1 for Airpods, last one for an Apple (or Beats) over the ear headset. 3 coils could run at 5 watts, and the other 7.5-10 watts. The Watch would be non-standard, but the other 3 should be Qi so it could work with other non-Apple devices. What it really needs though is to have an adapter for the cover connector, so that you could take the cover off the iPad, pop in the adapter and plug the adapter to the power supply (hopefully USB C for the adapter), then you can use the iPad while the devices are charging, or you could keep the iPad cover on and charge with everything being unused while charging (probably doing this overnight). If you want to charge everything at once, including the iPad at full speeds, you need a 45 watt USB-C power supply or better.

Wow that would be great! I would only then carry the iPad, the cover, the adapter, USB-C cable and power supply, and the 4 devices (minus any laptop, etc), and I could skip out on Lightning cables, more USB-C cables, and microUSB (the Beats headsets use microUSB today).
 
ryecoke said:
You might want to double check the name of this website.
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It's like I said later in this thread. If you like reading the same thing over and over, great. But I've stopped reading other sites for similar postings. Simply providing feedback that might steer some thought into posts instead of jumping to post the first thing over and over every time a new pimple pops up.

There is a shift occurring and Vloggers are getting this right. Post about something once or infrequently (meaning when something of substance actually happens) or is news breaking.

But maybe you're right. We should be told something 7 different ways from Sunday and waste our time. I've stopped visit MR as often as a result because the forums provide more insight and content than the staffers just being able to post something to show their site has an update in the last 4 hours rather than it be interesting or attention grabbing. I must get bored easily.
 
I do like almost all the updated feature of the S10 except for this. I still don't see the point of having this, I only have enough juice to last me until I go to bed at 11pm. That's when my phone stays in the charger all night and if you don't have enough juice before the end of the day that's your fault. You need to buy a battery pack or buy Energizer phone.
 
After the AirPower debacle, my take on any new or updated Apple products is this: I'll believe it if and when the product ever ships.
 
I would definitely like to be able to add some juice to my soon to be depleted Apple Watch without toting around that damn hockey puck.
 
robjulo said:
Not really....great feature if you are caught with a dead phone in a pinch. I suspect the criticism is coming because Samsung did it first....so the feature must be pointless.
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You mean caught with a dead phone that has wireless charging AND you have someone else nearby who has a new phone that supports reverse wireless charging AND that phone has sufficient battery that they don't mind loaning you some AND that person is also willing to stop using their phone for a period of time while the (very slow) transfer of power occurs from their phone to yours AND you're in some location where there isn't any available nearby source of power to plug into AND you have something really important to do that requires you to use your own phone (instead of, say, just borrowing your friends phone to make a couple quick calls or whatever it is that's so important) THEN it might be useful.

You think you're going to find yourself in such a situation very often?

BTW, Huawei did this before Samsung.
 
PastaPrimav said:
That is probably the only use case I see here that makes even a little bit of sense. And I don't think that is what they're going for at all. You're gonna have to charge through the back, and no way will you be able to charge and send charge at the same time.
Sad really. But that's Apple now.
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Obeying the laws of physics is sad?
 
realtuner said:
Obeying the laws of physics is sad?
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No.
Sad is Apple doing things that are useless.
Sad is Apple accepting the limitations of Qi standard instead of doing wireless charging from the ground up.

When Apple went all in on Qi 2 years ago...it did so with the expectation (both internally, and toward customers) that they would not settle for the crap experience that passes for Qi...they would bring their own innovation to the space.
After 2+ years they've acknowledge that they failed to do so.

I blame Apple for making a bad bet 2 years ago that they would be able to work within the Qi standard to accomplish their goals. It should have been obvious at the time that the current state of Qi was exceptionally lame, and that they would be better off taking a full on Apple approach and starting from scratch with wireless charging. But, they gambled and lost instead.
 
Where is all the people who said it was a useless feature when Samsung previewed this on the S10?



dims
 
Well, my phone contract is up for renewal at the end of the year, but my iPhone X is so satisfactory that I can't see a reason to upgrade. The ball is in your court Apple...!
 
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