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Wireless Charging Accessory Might Not Ship Until After New 2017 iPhones Launch

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  • iPhone 8 might come in Jet Black color just like iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
  • iMac Pro might look in real life how it looks in the pictures Apple released
  • HomePod might come in 2 colors, but it might come in 1, I guess we'll have to wait till December and see
  • Trump might secretly be the real CEO of Apple, "Tim Cook just public face" [Update: Nevermind, we just wanted clicks]
  • Apple Car might crash if software malfunctions
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Wireless charging and wireless CarPlay announcement at the same time :) many cars have built in Qi charging.
 
It is reminiscent of the original iPhone. An awesome concept but one that will take another generation or two before it’s ready for the masses. That’s not to knock anybody who wants to buy one. I bought the original iPhone and to me, at that time, it was worth every penny!!!
 
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Sunny1990 said:
If it's not long range I don't really see a point in the wireless charging :-(
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I think the point was to make charging more convenient. If all you have to do it set your phone down on the pad to start charging, and you can grab it and go whenever, people would be more likely to do short "boosts" to their phone's battery charge when they aren't using it. Just have a pad someplace where you have your phone often when it's not on you (on a nightstand, at a desk, in your car), and therefore you can be topping up your phone often and not worrying about the battery when you're out.

I agree with you overall, though. I don't charge my phone like that. I plug it in when I going to bed normally, and it's 100% when I get up the next day. Then I do the same thing the next time it is getting low. Constantly topping up the phone sounds like a band aid for the real issue -- whatever the phone is, it has crap battery life to start with.
 
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whats with half baked launches?
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Market pressure to "bring it, don't sing it", as people have been harping on Tim Cook about as of late, verses the realities of making those products come true from an engineering/development standpoint. I know Qi has been around for years, but remember this is Apple, the king of NIH. They may have wasted a lot of time working on some other implementation they couldn't get off the drawing board and are now changing direction to this. Meanwhile, they have to get the rest of the iPhone 2017 lineup out the door on the normal schedule, so this becomes a "afterwards" accessory.
 
I couldn't care less for inductive charging. You still need the power adapter, you still need a cord from the power adapter going into the inductive charger and you still have to have your phone physically touching the inductive charger for it to charge. Not to mention the charger efficiency goes down so it takes longer to charger. What exactly is great about all this?

I have used it on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and S7 Edge and I find it pointless. The only half-decent thing I could think of is making my entire nightstand into a large inductive charger so my phone would automatically charge wherever I might leave it on the nightstand. And that's pretty much it.

Another downside is you can't really use your phone while it's charging.
 
Click bait. Unannounced product delayed… (sigh)

Personally, I'm hoping the phone has NO ports and NO buttons and it's screwed without the wireless charger.
Seriously, I'll bet it's the phone holding up the deal, not an induction coil in an Ive-shaped-box.

As many have noted - this is not rocket science, especially if it's a glass back (no words for the undesirability of reliving that particular nightmare). Wireless charger should be the EASIEST part of this phone.

Unless it's a SMART charger, then all bets are off. (sigh, again)

Just calling something dumb Smart doesn't fix anything - look at the Smart Bar on the MacBook Pro - people are falling all over themselves to get a hold of that genius marketing point-of-difference… (sigh). You're supposed to have point-of-difference to your COMPETITOR, not the rest of the products YOU make. Schiller must be going senile or something.

Apple may have cleared the last 3 years' Intel logjam, but the rest of the train wreck seems intact. Bring on the gentlemanly excuse monkey to tell us how socially active Apple is, because… products are mostly promise-ware these days.

First the 7 that looks like a two year old 6, now the glass back… more reasons to wait another year to upgrade.
That's the real reason sales are low, Mr Cook, poor design choices! Maybe they'll make a phone I want, next year!
 
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If the wireless charging is not actually going to be wireless, why bother?

Literally no one cares about it. Its not novel or more useful than the wire. They just tacked it on for differences sake. Its not going to provide any utility in real life.
 
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So....AirPods all over again? 6 weeks shipping months after release and $99-$149 price tag? Very frustrating, hope it's all wrong.
 
nutriousmitten said:
Yeah my guess is the iPhone, though Apple is part of the wireless consortium, will have some combination of hardware and/or software that makes the current, cheaper, QI chargers either completely useless, or basically useless (super slow) forcing people into a Lightning cable-powered charger or something else proprietary.

Inductive charging is nice. No fumbling with wires, twisting them day after day until they start to breakdown. The charger pads has the phone sit at a nice angle at ones desk, and Samsung had gotten fast change capabilities as well to work.
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can't pick it up and use your phone while charging. really useful...
 
dannyyankou said:
Maybe Apple should wait until early next year to release the iPhone 8 when they’re ready so that the launch goes as smoothly as possible.
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I'm Assuming you're being facetious in your Post. When you take in consideration the iPhone launch is the company's largest annual event they have, where they distribute millions of iPhones across the world, it's not always necessarily as easy as it sounds to meet the demands for the latest iPhone. Especially when you take in consideration of this year being the 10th anniversary iPhone, I think Apple is working very hard to make sure they have the necessary stock and resources to have the best launch possible.

Is was also rumored they started production earlier than slated then normal this year, likely being this iPhone will be highly anticipated.
 
AppleFan91 said:
So....AirPods all over again? 6 weeks shipping months after release and $99-$149 price tag? Very frustrating, hope it's all wrong.
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No its not. The AirPods are actually wireless and the provide an actual convenience. Whats convenient about not being able to use your phone while charging?
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Relentless Power said:
I'm Assuming you're being facetious in your Post. When you take in consideration the iPhone launch is the company's largest annual event they have, where they distribute millions of iPhones across the world, it's not always necessarily as easy as it sounds to meet the demands for the latest iPhone. Especially when you take in consideration of this year being the 10th anniversary iPhone, I think Apple is working very hard to make sure they have the necessary stock and resources to have the best launch possible.

Is was also rumored they started production earlier than slated then normal this year, likely being this iPhone will be highly anticipated.
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No one cares about a 10th anniversary if they aren't bringing anything new and novel to the table. At this rate Samsung will have actual wireless charging and touchID built into the display before Apple does.
 
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No one cares about a 10th anniversary if they aren't bringing anything new and novel to the table. At this rate Samsung will have actual wireless charging and touchID built into the display before Apple does.
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Blanketed statement. But let's wait until the iPhone launch to make any unnecessary assertions that doesn't speak for everyone about the Tenth anniversary iPhone. I will keep my opinion reserved once I see the actual iPhone and it's capabilities.
 
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Blanketed statement. But let's wait until the iPhone launch to make any unnecessary assertions that doesn't speak for everyone about the Tenth anniversary iPhone. I will keep my opinion reserved once I see the actual iPhone and it's capabilities.
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I'm going to skip this release if its not going to add something new and interesting to the table.
 
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I’ve heard that inductive charging will (a) be sold separately, and (b) might be late, waiting for iOS 11.1 (a la Portrait mode last year).
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It's not like Portrait mode at all, because that was a software solution. Charging involves the movement of charged ions and the hardware must be ready for that, can't be upgraded later on. With $49 for a dumb Lightning Dock, I wonder how much Apple will ask for an Inductive Dock? $79, $99, $119.
 
Sedulous said:
Inductive charging... yuck. Slow, requires specific positioning, and requires special dock? No thanks.
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Wrong, wrong and wrong. Typical user that has zero experience with this tech.

FYI, an S8 via 15w fast wireless charging will charge faster than the iPhone 7 can charge using its wired connection, and the iPhone 7 has a significantly smaller battery.
They is no special 'dock'. In the case of the Samsung wireless chargers, you just plop your phone down in either portrait or landscape mode and it charges every time. And at night, in a dark room, there is no fumbling around looking for the cord or trying to get the plug into the phone.
 
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I'd rather the iphone 8 cost less sans inductive charger then Apple justify the premium price for not plugging your phone in as usual.
 
rjtyork said:
Why why WHY can't we just use the same motherhumping charger as the Apple Watch?! I don't want a friggin mat or stupid stand that my phone has to be attached to in order to charge. That makes charging worse, not better. I think Tim is going to disappoint big time in a few months.... :(
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I actually would have liked the phone using the same charging puck as the watch. That way I could still use it while charging and it would be easy to stick on and detach from the charger.

However, sometimes that puck gets hot so it doesn't seem efficient. Even better would be something like a mag safe connection. I think someone else suggested that on a different thread a few days ago.

I guess I'll just wait and see what really does get released. These rumors are all over the place. I think Tim really did double down on secrecy. And possibly did a better job leaking mass confusion. I can't wait for the keynote this year.

Meanwhile, I'll wait to read the next rumor about the new iPhones actually being powered by electric Pokémon thanks to a new partnership with Nintendo.
 
Reality is the technology isn't where we want it to be. Wireless Technology on a whole is being held back back lack of battery innovation.
 
If they sell it for over $1000 WITHOUT the wireless charging AND no Touch ID, I'm not saying it will fail, but it would be EXTREME arrogance towards their customers, but nothing from Tim Cook surprises me, so I wouldn't doubt it. :(
Although it might be quite comical in the keynote, Tim Cook trying to sell the patented Steve Jobs LESS is MORE sales pitch. EPIC FAIL on that. LOL
 
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