“Wireless charging is not particularly new technology, but this year at CES 2018, we’re seeing it show up in a big way,” Chaim Gartenberg reports for The Verge. “Tons of companies are releasing new products in a wide variety of form factors and styles.”
“Specifically, we’re seeing a huge wave of Qi wireless chargers, the popular industry standard that’s used by major smartphone companies like Samsung, LG, and many others,” Gartenberg reports. “The standard has actually been around for years, but last fall, Apple introduced Qi charging to its new iPhone 8 and iPhone X models which brought an influx of new users.”
“Apple jumping on board meant two things: lots of new customers looking for Qi pads, and the effective end of the other main wireless charging standard, PWA,” Gartenberg reports. “In fact, PowerMat, which created PWA, announced this year at CES that all of its future chargers will include Qi. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.’
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s not real until Apple does it.
Wireless charging (inductive) is old and has been around. The fact that millions more are being sold has little to do with what brand they are.
1997 Patent for Universal Inductive Battery Charging.
Wooo Bleeding edge.
https://www.google.com/patents/US5959433
As with so many other technologies; it doesn’t exist, until Apple adopts it, then it goes mainstream in ten days.
Wow! All these companies designed, tested, and produced wireless chargers in ten days, but Apple still hasn’t released Home Pod or a useful Mac Pro.
This product has been daily use for over 20 years by millions of people with teeth:
Has always been charged wirelessly.
Tell it to Predrag, ye who knows not sarcasm.
It may be older tech, but it was never adopted en masse until now; and that is entirely Apple’s doing. Had they adopted it several years ago, it would be even more ubiquitous.
Hey, Sandusky, how you doing? How you feel about Phillip Durachinsky’s recent conviction?
Wrong article.