Something in high demand among users, and that I do not share because it reduces mobility, is the possibility of charging an iPhone without cables, which would allow the phone to be placed on a surface and it could start charging without having to connect the Lightning cable. The good news for you is that Apple is working on it as shown a patent describing a system that would allow induction charging an iPhone without adding hardware, a system that, in theory and from what is read in the patent, would be compatible with the models that will go on sale this morning in Spain.
The patent, called «inductive energy transfer using acoustic or haptic devices“Describes a common two-coil charging system in which a transmitter coil passes power to a receiver coil connected to the iPhone battery. The energy transfer would be via speakers, microphones or the taptic engine which is already present in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
In the patent, Apple also describes how current can be applied to the coils at different frequencies to avoid unintentional actions. For example, in the case of the loudspeaker, the different frequencies could be used to prevent the inner membrane from moving and reproducing some unsolicited sound.
As we always say, that something has been patented does not mean that what is described in the patent is used exactly as we see it in it, but it serves to know in which direction a company is investigating. In my opinion, Apple shares my feeling that the inductive charging currently used by the competition does not add anything real to the use of a device beyond not having to connect the cable and reduce mobility. I think that a company like Apple should focus on a wireless charging that allows us to use the iPhone in the same way that we can do it with a connected cable, which is no other way than to have it in hand in a natural way. Although I also think that Tim Cook and company will end up giving in and launch an induction charging system like the one we can already see in the Galaxy S6, for example.
Even with the inconvenience of having it still and not being able to use it it would be a huge improvement! Not having to buy charging cables every two months, because Apple cables are absurd, very little is said. A lamentable quality and at prices that we go ...
What nonsense some say! What is it that an induction load takes away mobility? You really have to read everything you freak out about. What is a shame is that by now they still haven't implemented inductive charging like the competition.
Hi GM. I reaffirm myself: it takes away mobility. Can you keep using it while lying in bed if you charge it by induction? Now you will tell me that you use the cable for that, to which I answer that there is to find another way to charge it that does not force me to leave the mobile standing on a surface, continue charging and do not need a cable.
Electricity can travel through the air. You have to do it right https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zif-Y8L8y_w
A greeting.
A lot of science fiction have seen some ...
So, whether it is the speaker, microphone (which by the way is not inductive in the iPhone but electret or condenser), or the Taptic Engine, they reconfigure themselves in their connection to the motherboard, and they connect themselves to the battery to charge it, and then reconnect again to perform their transducer function? On the other hand, has anyone ever stopped to think about the necessary size and wire section of a coil, so that an induction charge generates enough milliamps to charge the battery in a reasonable time?
And finally, let's leave Tesla in place, no one, I repeat NO ONE has managed to make a wireless charge without contact or proximity, due to the need for a strong alternating magnetic field or even worse ionization involved ... or do we want to defeat science, frying everyone who gets between the mobile and the charger?
Please, less science fiction ... 🙂
Science fiction? Do you recognize this image? http://www.entretantomagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_8643.jpg
What would they tell you then if you told them that several decades later we carry much more powerful things in our pockets? What's more: that machine was taken as something impossible when it was created.
I am not saying that a 50 meter field is created, but that it has enough margin to not have to choose between charging and using the phone by hand.
And now you're bringing Turing to the fore for me? hahahaha really Pablo, neither you nor I will see a remote battery charge hopefully! hahaha 😉
Well, MagMIMO does not think the same ... http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/190926-magmimo-mits-new-long-range-wireless-charging-tech-that-works-like-wifi
I edit my comment. I'm going to fall off the donkey and look a little more at the present: Why not make a dock that we can support vertically and that charges by induction?
What I don't want is to leave it on a surface, but if the surface allows us to pick up the mobile, my speech already changes. If the surface is a kind of vertical wall, not very big, that we can take and on top of that we can use it as a dock (it would have to be slightly diagonal and with a stop at the bottom at least), I think it is the best solution and applicable from now on (iPhone 7, of course).
The ideal thing for me would be to have in the house, offices, libraries and common areas a kind of router, which works exactly the same. When a user wants to charge their equipment, they simply scan their surroundings and add themselves to a network that in this case would be called wifi charging or powerWi and immediately start charging. Hell that would be great, if I had technical preparation I would get to work with engineers and programmers to achieve it. Who would not want to buy a charging router through wifi and I think it is possible because Nicolas Tesla had a project to transmit electrical energy without cables. Investigate to see.