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Other What Happened to Reverse Wireless Charging?
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The battery’s are fairly big. The mini is the only small one. Can’t change physics.
That’s speculation. We don’t really know why they didn’t include ProMotion.
Consider this:
Phone in pocket charging your AirPods.
Phone plugged in on hotel nightstand and charging your watch
Obviously we wont be charging large devices with a phone, but it does have some use scenarios that may come in handy for small battery products. So if the feature exists already then why not release it.
Actually we do. it worked fine, it drained too much battery along with 5G and since they didn’t make the battery bigger it was a good option this year.
Also Samsung couldn't make enough ltpo displays to help battery life due to high volume so they skipped using it on normal panels
Here you go.
apple.news
New Apple Patents Suggest MagSafe AirPods Are In Development — Forbes
Apple AirPods look set to receive a radical design change...
Stop believe in every rumor. If you’ve followed MacRumors for more than a year, you’ll know that rumors are just rumors.
It’s sooo bizarre that people latch on to a Must-have feature that isn’t practical or efficient. Put this reverse charging idea to sleep. Apple went all in on MagSafe charging. I promise you it will never see the light of day on Apple products. Go to android where they half ass everything and put in a ton of useless features nobody will use
It makes sense from a user convenience standpoint but not for Apple. Why bother with the hassle and expense of implementing reverse charging *and* lose out on selling overpriced watch charging pucks?
Ahhhh the sarcasm. If you’ve ever owned a business you would think it’s smart and wouldn’t even point it out. Companies/corporations are always seeking different ways to grow their bottom line. its apples product. it Only makes sense they wouldn’t lose out on ways to make income By removing The headphone jack that wasn’t proprietary and neither was usb-c. They made out on AirPods and lightning cables. And now you have charging pucks
Also consider that Apple is possibly looking at doing away with the charging port altogether and MagSafe may end up being the default way of charging your iPhone. Where are you supposed to place your AirPods or Apple Watch then?
Maybe Apple isn’t implementing it because the concept isn’t going to be viable in another couple of years?
No, and yes - not apple numbers, but I definitely saw real world samsung tests. Unsurprisingly, it's woefully inefficient and slow. Look some samsung numbers up for yourself, but ones I saw went along the lines of 100% phone + 20% phone plus an hour in good alignment = 60% phone and 30% phone. Someone's probably done the maths as to whether higher power/faster is more or less efficient, but would require more engineering and possibly more space/mass.
A friend needs 1% battery just to be able to retrieve a number from their phone to make a call ? That'd be a really nice thing to be able to do, if no one has a cable. But it won't let you give your mate 50% charge over a beer (unless you drink really, really slowly) and if you didn't just charge your phone, you're going to want to find a charger soon too. Easier to beg/borrow/steal a wire and either a powerbank, a wall charger or a laptop usb port in 99% of situations, and if you find yourself in that situation often (either as the one in need or the helper) you should probably pick up some cheap cables and little power banks to lend.
Yes, not very efficient but could be very handy in a pinch. I responded to you also because of your avatar. v2v (vehicle to vehicle) or v2g (vehicle to grid) has also been rumored from Tesla for a while, but they haven't added it for some of the same reasons. Although I'd see it as a great feature to be able to charge a stranded Tesla away from a charger, or to use to power my house during an outage (power walls don't make sense for me with having solar and net metering). I was also just reminded of that seeing the Roadie on Shark Tank which is a portable charger. Wouldn't necessarily be needed if Tesla's could do v2v. I had both a 3 and a Y, although sold my 3 recently since my driving went down so much there wasn't a need to have 2 vehicles any longer.
Sorry dude I’m not gonna let someone lay their phone on top of mine for inefficient charging. No matter how hard you’re trying to sell it. Apple will never implement this silly feature. It only belongs on crappy android phones