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Wireless Charging Looks to Go Mainstream in 2015
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I know it's going to be years for Apple to adapt something like this but I'd love for my next iPhone to have wireless charging
Now this is what i actually call wireless charging,,,, not some scheme called "wireless charging" where by u still need a dock to place it without cables attached.
WiTricity which bright spark thought up of this name
However, no matter the technology, if its going though walls its must still be be subject to some sort of blocking....
I can't believe you could still have walls in between and still be perfectly stable at all times.. However, i also can't believe it only happens to RF either
Go Fugue ...
WiTricity which bright spark thought up of this name
However, no matter the technology, if its going though walls its must still be be subject to some sort of blocking....I can't believe you could still have walls in between and still be perfectly stable at all times.. However, i also can't believe it only happens to RF either
Go Fugue ...
I've got wires everywhere I spend time, cost $3 bucks, and charges much faster. My cables are also long enough to charge while I'm using it, which I do quite often while I'm sitting down at home or even at work. That'S why I can still use a 5.5 year old 3GS.
I suppose this is nice to some, but for me, it seems utterly pointless in the current guise.
Actually, I did. And wireless charging from 1cm away, vs 1m away, is still wireless charging. And it's been an option on tons of phones, game console controllers, heck, that electric toothbrush on my bathroom counter uses wireless charging.
If a $20 toothbrush from WalMart doesn't scream "mainstream", I'm really not sure what should.
If the 6S has Qi Charging, expanded NFC, etc, then its market share could increase seeing as that the best Android has to offer is the Note Line (niche product) and the rest are solid products, but fail to market well. Apple is a solid company that has the ultimate cell phone brand, so anything it perfects (even if Android has it), people will eat it up, no pun intended.
I see this as beneficial mostly in the wearables market. Think of your wearable device charging automatically without you having to do anything other than wear it (I guess not even that so long as it is sitting within about a dozen feet of one of these chargers).
Of course it would be useful in a myriad of other things, phones included, but I see this being handiest with wearables.
Of course it would be useful in a myriad of other things, phones included, but I see this being handiest with wearables.
Knowing Apple, they will develop a proprietary solution and then charge more.
The question is, do we want Apple to go along with a "standard" for the sake of being part of the club if there is a better technology available? Surly the advantages of joining a standard need to be weighed, but it shouldn't be the only factor in product decisions.
Bingo. I couldn't care less about wireless charging as we're talking about it today. I use my devices while they're plugged in all the time. Also, who wants to lug that charging pad around?! I'll take my Lightning cable and a USB battery over that monstrosity any day.
Someone recently asked me why Apple replaced the 30 pin connector with another connector. Why they didn't leapfrog chargers all together if they wanted to save space and introduce wireless charging.
Considering how brutal Apple can be with say, ditching the optical drive, or Flash, at the time I could not help but wonder, too.
I guess it was a cost/space issue.
Considering how brutal Apple can be with say, ditching the optical drive, or Flash, at the time I could not help but wonder, too.
I guess it was a cost/space issue.
So you saw no mention of technology that charges devices from up to 15 feet away in the article? Is that something common in other phones?
Sometimes, convenience and compatibility is worth more that a little better technical spec.
Would be like car makers, having their own mix of fuel perfect for their engines, and you had to find the right pump for your brand of car.
Technically better yes, but for that little bit better, what a pain it would be.
Likewise many many things in life.
Working together can be worth a lot to make normal life easier for everyone.
Good grief! You know this was completely debunked a LONG time ago, right? Why are people still living in the 80s? Here is one link. There was another study that followed workers who were up and close with high voltage power lines every day and NO link to cancer at all.
But that won't do anything - this myth will persist forever.
This is going to become quite important to apple with the USB-C based charging standard coming to phones.
With USB-C on every phone and charger cable, where is the need to purchase a charger from apple?
What apple need is a new incompatible system where buyers can justify the expenditure as being necessary, even though they survived quite well without wireless charging before now.
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I don't think wireless charging is going to be big until it can be done at a distance, say two meters. I want to sit at my desk with my phone in my pocket and it is charging because I have a gadget sitting on my desk that is doing it at a distance. I want to be sleeping while wearing my smart watch and it's charging because I have a gadget on the nightstand. And I want my electric car in my garage to be charging because I have a gadget on the garage floor or wall.
