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To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car? I think w
by kbrwn 7y ago
To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car?
I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
- zippergz 7y agoI would not be a fan of not having a charging port, but I Qi charge my phone in the car every day. It's fine. One of my cars has it built-in to the armrest, and in another I have a third-party mount with an integrated Qi charger.
- opless 7y agoI've almost completely moved to Qi charging my phone. Oddly it took a while for me to find an in car CD mount type, as most of them are air vent types.
- jedberg 7y agoMy car has an option for a built in Qi charger. It’s in the spot you normally put your phone anyway. That being said, how would you service a portless phone? There would be no more DFU mode.
- mcgoo 7y agoIt seems like it’s essential right now at least. The Apple Watch has a hidden lightning port that I have never even seen.
- jedberg 7y agoYou’ve never seen it because it doesn’t exist. :) It was an unsubstantiated rumor.
- danaris 7y agoAnd how would you activate CarPlay? At the moment it's wired-only, and I'm skeptical as to whether it could be made to work over Bluetooth in existing cars. If you bought a new car today with wired CarPlay, you might still be driving it in 5 or even 10 years, and you really wouldn't want to lose the ability to actually use CarPlay in just a year or two.
- BuckRogers 7y agoThere’s wireless Carplay today.
- ta999999171 7y agoReally poorly secured wireless interfaces that can be hijacked by 3LAs.
- kart23 7y agoThey could do something like the apple watch. There would be a strong magnet on the bottom of the phone and a miniature coil? Or just like a couple contact pads on the bottom exclusively for power. Kinda like the smart connector. They could do it and still have the ability to satisfy wire-like use cases.