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Will apple redesign the wall charger for iphone 4?
- Thread starter Hackintosh Sr.
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Retractable prongs? I think they'd have to make the charger larger and bulkier to accomplish that which would not make sense. I've traveled a lot with it in our luggage or backpack and never even been close to an issue with it as it is so small. They are also very inexpensive if you buy one on eBay, so just get a spare if you're worried.
What if they made the 30 pin connector magnetic like the macbooks?
Currently in my room, the wall charger is like 2 feet away from a safe place to put my iphone (my dresser) so my cord is like streched across 2 feet, and since my iPhone is raised, one small tug would send the iPhone flying down to the carpet.
Now the only thing is, the magnet would probably need to be very weak considering the weight of the phone, and it would proabaly be so weak that a simple accidental pull with pull it off. Could get annoying.
Maybe they should invent something that will auto unlock when something bad is about to happen
Currently in my room, the wall charger is like 2 feet away from a safe place to put my iphone (my dresser) so my cord is like streched across 2 feet, and since my iPhone is raised, one small tug would send the iPhone flying down to the carpet.
Now the only thing is, the magnet would probably need to be very weak considering the weight of the phone, and it would proabaly be so weak that a simple accidental pull with pull it off. Could get annoying.
Maybe they should invent something that will auto unlock when something bad is about to happen
Kinda pointless as well, but I hope the plastic over the iPhone is a sticker and not just wrapped around the iPhone like the 3GS was. I like the feeling peeling off the sticker to see a perfectly spotless, fingerprint-less screen!
Not gonna happen, a magnetic connector means the terminals have to be more connected, and the 30 pin connector needs a precise fit because it's 30 pins, obviously. Plus people would whine and complain if apple changed the dock connector because it wouldnt work with their speakers, docks, the 8 usb cables they have laying around their house, etc.
This. I was actually just getting ready to start bitching if the general consensus was that the design was going to change.
I've got too much money tied up in accessories (Bose sounddock, dock for the car, etc.) to have to shell it all out again.A new charger design would be nice. The original iPhone worked with my old iPod charger (which was kind of shaped like my MacBook charger, with the fold-in prong). Also my current charger wire is pretty flimsy.. starting to come apart at both ends and I've already gotten it replaced once. I just have to remember to keep the new charger nice though, I guess.
There's so much fail here I don't know where to start. You do NOT need to use the 10w iPad adapter to charge the iPad, it can charge from anything that provides a handshake and 5V current over USB.
Standard USB ports (2.5W): charges at 1/4 the rate of the iPad charger when screen is off, does not charge when screen is on.
High-power "USB charging ports" (5W): charges at 1/2 the rate of the iPad charger when screen is off, 1/4 rate when screen on.
iPhone power adapter (5W): Same as above.
iPad power adapter (10W): Full-speed charging with screen off, 3/4 speed with screen on.
Now there ARE some "dumb" chargers that are incompatible with the iPad (and every other iThing) because they just provide voltage through the port, and do not handshake with the device like a computer would. I have two such chargers. They work great with most devices that charge over USB (Droid, RAZR, Blackberry, speakerphone, PS3 controllers, etc), but not my iPhone, because it requires a little more intelligence on the other end of the cable. But anything with a USB port that has an apple logo, and most things that don't, will charge an iPad or iPhone just fine.