La presentation a few days ago was special for many reasons, but above all because of the large number of new products they announced to us. One of those products was the accessory AirPower, a wireless charging base to charge up to three Apple devices including the iPhone 8, iPhone X, Apple Watch and the AirPods box.
The Japanese blog Mac Otakara has done a test to check which charging stations are compatible with the Apple Watch Series 3 and it has been found that the exclusive bases for the iPhone 8 as Blekin Boost Up and Mophie weren't charging the watch While other charging bases were compatible with the new Apple Watch from the big apple.
Apple Watch Series 3 and wireless charging accessories
Apple has always been known for restricting the use of its devices to accessories. This is the case of various SD card adapters and other peripherals that only worked if they were original from the Big Apple. Non-original accessories were detected by a software-level restriction code.
The same is believed to happen with AirPower, Apple's wireless charging dock, capable of charging at the same time (and without cables) three devices of the big apple. Of course, it is believed that you can only load your products even if the base is based on the Qi standard. Continuing with the topic of wireless charging we come to Apple Watch Series 3.
Since its presentation, the curiosity was had of what charging accessories would be compatible with the new Apple smart watch. The aforementioned Japanese blog has determined that the accessories created jointly with Apple for charging the iPhone 8: Belkin Boost Up and Mophie They do not support wireless charging of the watch.
But they have tried other accessories also based on the Qi standard and they do allow Apple Watch charging. We just have to wait and see how the issue of wireless charging advances in which Apple is new.
Wow, Apple always so open to third party made accessories.