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Two-Way Wireless Charging and Larger Batteries Coming to 2019 iPhones
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Solid money on this being used as a crap excuse for needing to upgrade to the newest Apple Watch if you want it to work with the 2-way charging on your new iPhone.
If this is the "wow" feature that Apple has planned for 2019 it's going to be a snooze-fest and I'll just keep my iPhone X into a 3rd year of use.
If this is the "wow" feature that Apple has planned for 2019 it's going to be a snooze-fest and I'll just keep my iPhone X into a 3rd year of use.
Please. If Apple came up with a new wireless charging standard they'd get slammed for making something proprietary that wasn't compatible with existing standards. Apple can't win it seems.
The only way XSs is getting a 20%+ Battery Capacity increase is Apple ditching 3D Touch. Along with some other improvement to battery and layout.
Which is why XR wont be getting much battery improvement, it doesn't have the 3D Touch Taptic Engine.
Which is why XR wont be getting much battery improvement, it doesn't have the 3D Touch Taptic Engine.
While some may like this idea out of convenience, I would want to know how is this going to affect the battery life? I can see this increases the charging cycle quickly and reducing its life cycle. I won’t be the beta tester if this comes to fruition.
Who called it a gimmick? I think most said it was a good idea for something like AirPods or the Watch.
I hope thats not the case. I would 100% rather have 3D touch than a bigger battery.
- Top off your AirPods or Watch when you're out and about
- Don't have to carry around an extra charger/cable when you're away from home. Just plug in your phone to a charger and rest your Airpods/Watch on the back to charge it as well. Particularly useful for the Watch which has its own little charger you'd otherwise have to bring.
"two way wireless charging" sure, why not. Apple putting reasonably-sized batteries in their phones? Pffft, you can't fool me.
quite a number of reviewers of s10 and mate 20 pro, saying the low wattage to charge a wireless device is too slow and thus a gimmick
Nope, it would only be possible if it loses it's aluminium body, and we know Apple won't change to non aluminium MacBooks.
Beside that, where would you put a iPhone XS (Max), there's no place, even a watch would be inconvenient while doing work on it.
Short answer, bad idea.
They should have just done this instead of trying to come out with another product (AirPower) that would have likely cost at least $200. If they had put their efforts into adding this functionality to iPhones and iPads, they would have created something more useful for people. Can't tell you how many times I wish I could just set my AirPods on my iPhone X to have them charge wirelessly... Samsung got that right on their latest devices.
Yeah, it would have been a terrible idea to use a proprietary protocol for wireless charging. There are already so many options for Qi charging, and the standard is fine. I've got a bunch of them scattered about my home, car, and office. I keep my phone fully charged without even thinking about it.
Apple doesn't need another lightning connection situation. Just use the standards. Qi. USB C.
Ming-Chi Kuo is guessing about something that was not leaked. Is he starting a rumor? Sure. But the only time his predictions ever come to fruition, is when the inevitable eventually happens. He predicted 32GB RAM in MBP for years before it finally, eventually, happened.
Lol this is officially Apple catching up to Samsung now..and only select features.
This is really sad.
Used to be the other way around,and that’s why iPhone WAS great.
I own an Xs Max but I have almost no doubt I will be buying Samsung phones from now on.
better design,better features,better technology at lower/same price.
This is really sad.
Used to be the other way around,and that’s why iPhone WAS great.
I own an Xs Max but I have almost no doubt I will be buying Samsung phones from now on.
better design,better features,better technology at lower/same price.
I think that will bring the big singularity and the universe will implode. Not recommended.
Steady on now. It took all their courage to remove features and you want to just add them in willy-nilly?
Eh. I'm using a Galaxy S10+, and I don't think this is a matter of Apple catching up. When different brands are coming out with similar features around the same time, it is just because the industry is moving in a certain direction. Apple likely would have included this feature regardless of what Samsung did.