There is so much and so much talk about the XNUMXth anniversary iPhone that I am afraid of taking the disappointment of the century. Logically, until something is officially presented all are rumors and these rumors are usually based on the information that some analysts shuffle. The most famous Apple in the world and the one who is most correct when he talks about the Cupertino plans is Ming-Chi Kuo, who has republished a note for his investors in which he talks about what is currently known as iPhone 8.
Much is being said that the iPhone 8 will come with a glass casing and the Taiwanese analyst believes that this change would be needed to support wireless charging. Furthermore, Kuo says that Pegatron will be the sole supplier of this charging system for the iPhone to be released in about 10 months. And it is that to be able to charge without connecting a cable it is necessary that on the back there is a special material different from many of the metal alloys that are used in smartphones.
Will the iPhone 8 have wireless charging?
We think one of the reasons the new iPhones will switch from metal to glass is to support wireless charging. To ensure superior performance, we believe that it will be more appropriate for EMS providers to develop and build wireless chargers because this will allow extensive testing. As Hon Hai (Foxconn) needs to deploy more resources to develop and produce OLED iPhones, we believe that Pegatron will be the sole supplier of the wireless charger.
The famous analyst has not made it clear if it will be all the iPhones of 2017 that will support this type of load, but he hopes that there will be more compatible devices in 2018. This would suggest that there are possibilities that Apple will launch an iPhone 8 with wireless charging and another or two others that would continue to be charged with cable or that all could support the charge, but there would be models that would arrive without the wireless charger, something that I personally would not fully understand. What is also not clear is whether the wireless charging that Apple would use in 2017 would be real or not, that is, the iPhone could be used at a certain distance from the charging base or if it would have to be placed on top of it like the rest of the phones. mobiles that exist today.
In any case, we are talking about a report presented today about something that has to arrive in almost a year. It is true that Kuo is quite correct in his predictions, but we will have to keep waiting to see if he does this time. What do you think?
