When it finally comes out in september as expected
if it's say anything over £150 which I bet will be.
if it's say anything over £150 which I bet will be.
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Will you be buying Air Power?
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I already have like 3 wireless chargers. One double charger to charge 2 phones at once. One that has a spot for my AW and iPhone and a Samsung fast wireless charger. Can't say I need another one that will no doubt be more expensive than all 3 of those combined....
It would be nice but I couldn't wait that long. I also travel for work so not very practical in that sense. I have a Belkin Boost up which works great and I leave it on my night stand at home. I take my Verizon iPhone plug when I travel. I have airpods which I do not use a lot but do use, so I do not charge them a lot. I also bought the Belkin travel stand which I use on night stand and small enough to take when I travel.
A year late. God knows how many bugs this thing will have when it finally comes out way overpriced.
It seems Apple announces a new product and then tries to figure out how to make it.
Don't have airpods (but would buy if they made them in black), and already have bedside and office wireless chargers for my phone. Don't need fast charging, don't need a watch charger.
So - probably no. unless they genuinely let you put the phone anywhere. I do sometimes wake up with the phone not having charged because it wasn't aligned properly.
So - probably no. unless they genuinely let you put the phone anywhere. I do sometimes wake up with the phone not having charged because it wasn't aligned properly.
Yes.
I already have an iPhone X and series 3 Apple Watch and will just buy the new charging case for the airpods.
Having one device to charge up 3 devices will be great and I think you should be able to set stuff down anywhere on the pad and it will charge.
The wireless charger I have now you have up put it down in a specific place for it to charge. This is no good if you pick up your phone in the middle of the night to check something and want to set it back down to charge.
I think £150 is a fair price too.
I already have an iPhone X and series 3 Apple Watch and will just buy the new charging case for the airpods.
Having one device to charge up 3 devices will be great and I think you should be able to set stuff down anywhere on the pad and it will charge.
The wireless charger I have now you have up put it down in a specific place for it to charge. This is no good if you pick up your phone in the middle of the night to check something and want to set it back down to charge.
I think £150 is a fair price too.
I’m not really sure... wireless charging was cool for like two nights, but I find myself plugging in more often than not for several reasons. I have a smaller native union puck, which I’m basing my experiences off of.
Wireless charging is relatively slow, and I don’t usually sleep more than 5 hours a night due to occupation, so sometimes it doesn’t charge completely in that time, though it may be for second reason:
At night, it’s kind of a pain to get the iPhone lined up perfectly on the charger in the dark. And even if you do, it’s not difficult to either by your movement inadvertently move the phone off the charging sweet spot, your dog moving it, or vibrations from alerts slowly marching it off of your nightstand. When that happens, you wake up to either a dead phone or one at 5%, which is a lousy way to start a day of productivity.
So yeah, not so sure what will be so different with Apple’s solution than what I’ve got now, which I usually don’t use and instead plug in most nights.
I guess if I still used my watch and owned the AirPods I might consider, but I don’t so doesn’t makw much sense for me.
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Actually, even if I did use a watch and AirPods, I wouldn’t buy it just out of principle. Apple really dropped the ball on this - it should have been out last year, and they’re just banking on us wanting to stay in their ecosystem and forking over an exorbitant sum for questionable benefit. I pay the premium for the phone, the computer, because I value the features, experience, lack of headache which I can’t really get anywhere else. But a charging pad is an interchangeable, substitutable good, and Apple didn’t earn my business on this one. Maybe if they would have made one less emoji and gotten this thing out last year I would have considered it. We need to stop rewarding them for mediocrity.
Wireless charging is relatively slow, and I don’t usually sleep more than 5 hours a night due to occupation, so sometimes it doesn’t charge completely in that time, though it may be for second reason:
At night, it’s kind of a pain to get the iPhone lined up perfectly on the charger in the dark. And even if you do, it’s not difficult to either by your movement inadvertently move the phone off the charging sweet spot, your dog moving it, or vibrations from alerts slowly marching it off of your nightstand. When that happens, you wake up to either a dead phone or one at 5%, which is a lousy way to start a day of productivity.
So yeah, not so sure what will be so different with Apple’s solution than what I’ve got now, which I usually don’t use and instead plug in most nights.
I guess if I still used my watch and owned the AirPods I might consider, but I don’t so doesn’t makw much sense for me.
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Actually, even if I did use a watch and AirPods, I wouldn’t buy it just out of principle. Apple really dropped the ball on this - it should have been out last year, and they’re just banking on us wanting to stay in their ecosystem and forking over an exorbitant sum for questionable benefit. I pay the premium for the phone, the computer, because I value the features, experience, lack of headache which I can’t really get anywhere else. But a charging pad is an interchangeable, substitutable good, and Apple didn’t earn my business on this one. Maybe if they would have made one less emoji and gotten this thing out last year I would have considered it. We need to stop rewarding them for mediocrity.
I’m a sucker for most Apple accessories and I’m passing on this one.
I already have a bedside charger for my Watch that supports nightstand mode, a $15 wireless charger for my 8+ to charge it overnight, a USB-C charger for fast charging when I forget to charge it overnight, and a standard 5W charger for my work SE and my AirPods.
I like the Watch’s nightstand mode since I can just tap the stand and see the time when I wake up in the middle of the night. Fast charging is still a necessity for me, at least until I can get better at habitually putting my phone on the wireless charger every night. I’ll still need a wired charger for my work SE, and sharing it with my AirPods isn’t really an issue because the AirPods charge fairly quickly.
The rumored $160 price isn’t making me consider it any more - on the contrary, makes me even more certain that it’s not for me.
I already have a bedside charger for my Watch that supports nightstand mode, a $15 wireless charger for my 8+ to charge it overnight, a USB-C charger for fast charging when I forget to charge it overnight, and a standard 5W charger for my work SE and my AirPods.
I like the Watch’s nightstand mode since I can just tap the stand and see the time when I wake up in the middle of the night. Fast charging is still a necessity for me, at least until I can get better at habitually putting my phone on the wireless charger every night. I’ll still need a wired charger for my work SE, and sharing it with my AirPods isn’t really an issue because the AirPods charge fairly quickly.
The rumored $160 price isn’t making me consider it any more - on the contrary, makes me even more certain that it’s not for me.
Originally I was kind of half joking when I made this comment but it's looking more like it might be true.