iPhone and iPad: In 2017 with advanced wireless charging

The next iPhone and iPad year could introduce support for wireless charging. This would not be a slavish transposition of the techniques used so far, but of a system capable of charging the device even without direct contact with the charging base.

A recent Bloomberg report helps to trace the evolutionary path of the iDevice with specific reference to new technologies to recharge the batteries on which would be to work in the house of Cupertino in collaboration with partners in the US and Asian markets. Wireless charging is a technology increasingly used in the smartphone arena, and although it is not yet set as standard, resulting in a plus acceptable, but certainly not essential, its presence represents a further element of differentiation that the major top brands can leverage to offer something more than their competitors.

Apple, as it is often used to do, observes the evolution of specific technologies before formulating its proposal. So it could be the case of support for wireless charging, according to a report in the source, will become part of the iPhone and iPad hardware equipment from 2017.

Apple, in any case, would not choose to resort to a slavish repetition of the technologies for the wireless charging currently most common, but rather, an evolution of the same. Specifically, the system on which Apple is at work would allow you to make the Phone wireless charging and iPad without the obligation to place them on the appropriate cradle.

To exceed the limit of physical contact between the base station and device, Apple has the not inconsiderable task of avoiding the problems related to a charge that could be defined not only wireless but also ” contactless “, first of which is the reduction in the efficiency of charged with increasing distance between transmitter and receiver. Although other vendors, such as Samsung, Microsoft, Sony and Google have already integrated components for the wireless charging technology in its smartphones that Apple aims would be, at the time, unprecedented.

The Bloomberg report, for obvious reasons, has not been confirmed by Apple, but if the timing indicated to prove to be true, it would appear rather unlikely the integration of this type of wireless charging in the next iPhone 7, whose arrival is expected by the second half of this year. The ability to leverage wireless charging ” remote ” could prove useful in a specific scenario, or if it proves to be false another rumor, that related to the absence of a 3.5 mm headphone jack in the next iPhone.

The Lightning port, when occupied by headphones designed to take advantage of such a connection, do not allow to carry out, simultaneously, the charging cable. The alternative would be to resort to wireless headphones (not always appreciated by audiophiles). Rumor to be taken with the benefit of the doubt pending further evidence.

Apple, in the past, has not shown much interest in wireless charging, highlighting that the obligation to keep the touch smartphone with a charging cradle connected to the power outlet minimizes the advantages inherent in this solution. At the same time, it obtained the registration of patents for technologies that might be useful to give substance to its solution for wireless charging (see the patent on wireless charging via magentica resonance short (NFMR) and additional patent to reduce the metal interference in the transmission of wireless signals).