Hi Alan, I assume the wireless charging pads will always have to plugged into a wall outlet, but for me I see the advantage in how easy it is to simply put your phone down on the pad on your side table or in the living room and it's charging. You don't plug in your lightning cable each time you put your phone down and maybe 10 minutes later you want to get up and walk away, then you first have to unplug the cable and all in all it's just a nuisance. As I said before, I think the fact the phone would be charging a great deal of the time when it's lying on the table means you most of the time walk away with a full or almost full battery and of course most batteries nowadays don't care about getting charge just a bit all the time. Then of course there is the fact that as this technology gets to be purvasive in coffee shops, restaurants, airplanes and so on you have lots of opportunities to charge your phone. I believe the Belkin mat delivers 7.5 Watts and as the new iPhones all have fast charging technology (they charge from completely empty to 50% in half an hour) I really do see how this can be a very nice feature even if there is an initial investment. Also, this is something Tom from Applevis brought up in their special Podcast about the Apple event, many of us go through Lightning cables on a fairly regular bases. I personally seem to get quite a long life out of them, but I have broken some and certainly have bought my share of cables. Wireless charging would mostly illiminate this issue and while the charging pad is more expensive to begin with, you would probably have this thing for years and years to come so vover time it may end up paying for itself.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:56 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How does wireless charging work and what are the benefits? Well, until wireless charging is more prevalent with more competition, I can't see much advantages from the one product I just read about. The Belkin Boost Up charging pad sells for $59.99 and unless I'm missing something has to be plugged into a wall outlet. I'm having a hard time understanding why this is really all that more convenient than just plugging a cable into your phone to charge it but I admit I've not fully researched the technology yet. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:45 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How does wireless charging work and what are the benefits? I think even the fact I could get 3 or 4 of these chargers for my office and at home to have in the kitchen, bedroom and living room would make a big difference. Yes, you could have cables in all these locations, but who wants to go to the kitchen, plug in the phone, then unplug it when you maybe go to the living room, plug it in again and so on and so forth. If all you have to do is put it down on a charging pad this is a totally different story. I for one have preferred places where I put down my phone in these places so if I had a charging pad there my phone would always be charged and I rarely would have to worry about running out. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of lenron brown Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:11 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How does wireless charging work and what are the benefits? When I can charge wirelessly from a distance that's when it will really matter to me, still a cool thing to have though so I am not knocking it. On 9/14/17, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I don t claim to understand this fully, but yes, currently the > technology which charges devices wirelessly from a distance does not > exist. Maybe it exists in labs and I can almost guaranty that Apple is > probably working very hard on getting this to work, but for now > wireless just means that you don t have to plug in a wire. > As for public spaces, I believe companies like Starbucks and so on > have wireless charging pads built into tables so you could have your > phone charging right next to you, obviously nobody would put their > phone down on a charging pad and then go away and sit down 10 or 20 feet away. > As for charging when you travel there is nothing which prevents you to > do this just as you have always done it which means bring your > Lightning cable and plug it in. However, when Apple releases their > Airpower charger as they call it then for people who have an iPhone, > an Apple Watch and maybe Airpods bringing this instead makes a lot of > sense since it can charge all three devices by themselves or all three > at once and of course as time goes by this may even include other devices > which adopt the standard. > As with everything once Apple adopts something, in this case the Chi > wireless charging standard, they not only can pour a ton of money into > it to make it better but accessory makers will also scramble to bring > out a wide variety of devices to compliment it. > > > Best regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Cris Ali > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 9:58 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: How does wireless charging work and what are the benefits? > > Hello folks, > When I listened to the apple keynote, I did not quite understand the > advantages of wireless charging. My understanding is that one needs > to place the phone on a wireless charging pad or stand for it to > charge. This is not remotely wireless charging. That means that we > have to worry about more gadgets to carry when we travel. In addition > to the adapter and the wire, we will need to also carry a pad or a > stand for the wireless charging to work. > I understood that if many public places provide wireless charging we > would not have to worry about carrying our charging accessories. > However, I am not sure I would like to place my phone on a charging > pad in a restaurant or caf , or in an airport terminal. Unless the > wireless charging pad is on my table or on the arm of my chair, I would not > use it. > Can someone who is more familiar with this idea and process explain it > better to me? > Cheers, > Cris > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, > or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact > the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. 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