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After watching the Google Slate get announced today, it made me really excited for the new iPads.

There was this dig at iPad during the event that went something like "a phone that wants to be a tablet" or something like that.

While that may have been true a couple of years ago, it is most certainly no longer the case today.

If the rumors are true and iPad gains all this new functionality it's going to be interesting to see how it competes not only with the Slate but also with the Surface.
 
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Wireless charge can also work from a distance, easily let’s say a few feet. That’s what it really meant to do. But it could still be 2-5 years away for an iPad. Next year, 2019 there should be allready smaller gadgets that uses real wireless distance charge. After that it will be for a bigger devices such as iPhones, iPads and electric cars.

That’s incredibly inefficient. Yes, it’s the holy grail of wireless charging but you’re talking 50% loss in a foot and half distance.
 
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That’s massive in size. There’s nothing indicating this tech is going to shrink anymore anytime soon. I wouldn’t want a big pad at home for just one device.

Not to mention the cost. Pretty sure it’s not going to be cheap. Don’t forget about how incredibly inefficient it is as well. iPads take long enough to charge as it is...I couldn’t imagine how long it would take wirelessly. Plugging in a cable takes all of a second or so and it can be tucked out of the way just as quickly when not in use. Same reason why I don’t have a wireless charger for my X....don’t want to have a relatively huge charger taking up room when a much smaller cable can be used.
 
Sure, that’s why I said it is stil few years from happening. But wireless charge technology is changing rapidly at the moment.
I am really glad it is, IMO I don't believe AC has really been used to it's full potential. I think too much of the AC v DC stuff has still been raging. It's hard to do AC for smaller devices, which is why they use DC. AC can attain a huge amount of energy and deliver it from very far away, but to take advantage of that it needs special transformers/coils to step down the voltage so a device or machine can charge the device, that's where DC comes in, but again each device would have to have a specialty coil to receive and downgrade the energy so it is actually safely usable. But having it right next to the motherboard and such is risky as the energy gets hot even with just DC chargers, so we need properly designed coils to really downgrade AC, for it to do it's thing without burning up the device it is meant to be charging. lol

I think this is part of why Apple's Air-power mat is having issues, I think the coils are most likely too close and not properly designed so the voltage from AC is not downgraded appropriately and safely to the phones from the mat; causing the over-heating issues.
I am a fan of AC, but I admit AC scares me with smaller commercial devices. It's why super picky and careful on what company I buy a wireless charger from, they have to know how to construct it, and use the proper materials so it doesn't burn out, explode, or just not disperse the energy going to or from it.

*Sorry know-it-all geek moment over, (even though I actually am not one who knows much at all.)
;)
**Again just talking some nonsense, feel free to tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about (as I most likely am still off. I'm just learning about this particular part of science and tech. I have always just been a bloke who knows tech and some of the basics for safety and efficiency, but I wanted to learn more so I could possibly design my own devices someday.



Kallum.
 
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The reason why our devices is DC is because there’s no such thing as an AC battery and there never will be.
 
2015 and 2017 did not have events in October.

Well, obviously.

I was referring to the fact that all autumn events that have taken place, have taken place in October, and the fact that we could perhaps be looking at our first November event. Sorry if I was unclear.

No invites yet. Really hope they are out later today or tomorrow.
 
As our Mac Mini brethren might say "Invites are almost certainly coming"
 
im thinking the event is going to be october 30th with ipad launch date being november 2nd. too early for invites then.
 
We don’t know that 12.1 is coming this month though. Is November still fall?
If you want to get technical, majority of December is technically still Fall. But Apple would want to have enough time to also market these devices for the upcoming holiday season.
 
we usually see the first .1 release by end of october so im thinking the event will be on the 30th and they will announce new ipads, macs and say iOS 12.1 is being released today also.
 
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I’m sorry to break it to you guys, but there’s not gonna be the october event you’re looking for. From what I have heard, there may not even be a november event..
 
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