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"Wireless" charging

Proximity charging is the next step... I don't think anyone is complaining about wires (hey, what the... My wireless charger came with a wire), they are complaining about proximity / distance between the device and the charger.

I mean, my wifi router isn't technically wireless either, but I can use my device from further away...

What we have today is in fact wireless charging, maybe a better term for the next generation would be contactless charging??
 
Mike Reed said:
Generally speaking, wireless charging taken to its literal extreme would be a useless technology. Why have a battery to charge at all if power could be beamed straight into the device.

It’s wireless as much as anything is wireless. 😛
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Well, it wouldn’t be called “charging” at that point. The technology wouldn’t be useless, it would just make batteries unnecessary.

Then, you could cram more stuff in the phone where the battery used to be.
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nStyle said:
Clearly neither of you read my second post. It's not that hard to differentiate between "phone setting on charger that is directly connected to a wire" and "being able to walk around literally anywhere with your phone while it's charging".
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I think you have a valid point, but it’s more an issue of semantics than anything else. If people called it “inductive charging”, there wouldn’t be anything to discuss.
 
I'm a HUGE fan of wireless charging, especially now that we don't have an audio jack. I can set my phone on a wireless pad in front of my keyboard, plug in my headphones, and I'm good to go.

Not only that, I'm not tethered to the wall having to disconnect something, I can set my phone down and pick it up 20 times over the next hour and not have to connect/disconnect a physical cable. I'm liking it a lot.

I realize I'm not addressing the OP's - it's not wireless charging... but I see this as a nice step forward in terms of charging. Looking forward to hitting the sack tonight and just setting my phone next to my bed and having a full charge in the morning.
 
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snatefinch said:
If you want to argue the degree of wireless, than yes, wi-fi/cellular is more wireless than this wireless charging. But in the simplest definition of wireless, this wireless charging is wireless.
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This is a great example of how being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic is useless.
 
nStyle said:
False equivalency, although you're actually making my point. You don't need to be anywhere (comparatively) near the tower for your phone to make calls. As a consumer, you also don't ever think about where the tower is or that the tower even exists at all. That's my point about "wireless chargers". For it to be wireless, you wouldn't care where the charger is or that the charger exists at all.

With the charger, your phone is literally laying ON the charger which defeats the purpose of it being "wireless". You know exactly where your charger is and you are aware of its limits. Again, the slight convenience of not plugging your phone in is still not enough to call it "wireless".
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So your argument is that it isn't wireless because you can't be very far from the charging device. It's a simple fact, there is no wire between your phone and charger, hence it's wireless. No one is denying it's nowhere near as useful as proximity based wireless charging, but it's still wireless.
 
nStyle said:
As a consumer, you also don't ever think about where the tower is or that the tower even exists at all. That's my point about "wireless chargers".
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That depends on where you live. I live in a rural area, I know if I drive out of town past a certain point I will lose service. That doesn't make my phone any less wireless since I have to be concerned with where I lose the connection from the tower.
 
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