Ondrej Holzman If there's any potential new iPhone feature that's been talked about for a really long time, it's wireless charging. While most competitors have already introduced the possibility of charging other than via a connected cable in their smartphones, Apple is still waiting. According to recent reports, this may be because he is not satisfied with the current state of wireless charging.
News website Bloomberg today, citing its sources, it reported that Apple is developing a new wireless technology that it could introduce in its devices next year. In cooperation with its American and Asian partners, Apple wants to develop technology that will make it possible to charge iPhones wirelessly over a greater distance than is currently possible.
Such a solution would probably not yet be ready for this year's iPhone 7, planned for autumn, which supposed to remove the 3,5mm jack and in that context inductive charging was also often talked about. In this way, Apple would solve the problem where the phone could not be charged at the same time when using Lightning headphones.
However, Apple doesn't seem to want to settle for the current standard of wireless charging, which is placing the phone on a charging pad. Although it uses the same principle, when the device must be attached, with its Watch, it wants to deploy better technology in iPhones.
After all, already in 2012, Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, he explained, that until his company figures out how to make wireless charging really effective, there's no point in deploying it. Therefore, Apple is now trying to overcome technical obstacles related to the loss of energy during transmission over a longer distance.
As the distance between the transmitter and the receiver increases, the efficiency of energy transfer decreases and thus the battery charges much more slowly. It is this problem that the engineers of Apple and its partners are now solving.
There was also a problem, for example, with the aluminum chassis of telephones, through which power was difficult to get through. However, Apple owns a patent for aluminum bodies, through which waves get through more easily and eliminates the problem of metal interfering with the signal. For example, Qualcomm announced last year that it got around this problem by attaching the power-receiving antenna directly to the phone's body. Broadcom is also successfully developing wireless technologies.
It is not yet clear at what stage Apple has the new technology, however, if it did not have time to prepare it for the iPhone 7, it should probably appear in the next generation. If this scenario comes true, we probably shouldn't expect "classic current" inductive charging this year, because Apple will want to come up with a really fine-tuned feature that it's happy with.
The idea is great, to charge without a cable, but how many different electromagnetic waves are already flying in the air? It will "fry" our brains pretty well in no time.
We will have to walk in helmets like the x-man Magneto! :-)
"..problem where the phone would not charge at the same time when using Lightning headphones...."
I don't know why everyone still sees a problem with this? In the same way as I connect a reduction to HDMI to the iPhone, where it is also split into a charging cable, the reduction to headphones can also be solved.
If I have to drag the charging cable with me, some kind of adapter will also fit.
2) If someone will have a device that charges wirelessly, then they will probably also have headphones connected wirelessly.
Where is the "problem"?
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