Mophie is one of the oldest names in the business when it comes to smartphone battery packs, but its latest release puts a new spin on the approach. Instead of a battery case that can only be used with a single phone, the new Juice Pack Connect uses a modular system to clip a battery pack onto the back of your phone, where it can wirelessly charge it.

It’s a creative solution that solves a lot of problems of both bespoke battery cases and more modern Qi battery packs. The Juice Pack Connect works with basically any phone that supports wireless charging, not just a single device. And the clip mechanism allows for Qi charging to be used even when out on the go, without resorting to solutions like a weird suction cup array to keep the charger and phone together.

Plus, Mophie’s system is modular, so if your clip-on battery dies, you can just slide on another Mophie pack and keep charging. There’s also the possibility for future expansion here: the company is already including a phone grip stand that can be attached to the main anchor point when you’re not charging, and it’s easy to imagine it could release other products that take advantage of the setup, too.

The battery pack itself features a 5,000mAh battery and offers both a USB-C port and Qi support, both of which can be used to either recharge the Juice Pack Connect to charge a second device. Mophie isn’t saying what kind of wattage the Juice Pack Connect offers in terms of charging speeds, though.

The other big issue with the Juice Pack Connect is the $79.95 price tag — a hefty price to pay for a 20,000mAh USB-C battery pack these days, much less a 5,000mAh one.

Source: Theverge

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Apple revived one of its more beloved technologies, MagSafe, at its annual iPhone reveal on Tuesday, showing off a new line of smartphones with magnets built into the back for fast and sturdy connections to wireless chargers, snap-on cases, and other accessories.

While the old MagSafe was a safety feature for charging laptops without worrying about damaging your machine when the cord was ripped out, the new MagSafe is a savvy, smartphone-centric accessory play for Apple. It lets the company build a new gadget ecosystem for the iPhone that it controls entirely, just like Lightning and Apple’s other proprietary ports and cables, while also offering tangible benefits like faster 15W charging.

But while MagSafe now seems like a nice complementary feature to the newly announced iPhones, it paves the way for Apple to make magnetic wireless charging the centerpiece for how we charge all of our devices going forward. Just look at the company’s new MagSafe Duo Charger, a wireless charging stand for both the Apple Watch and iPhone, or Belkin’s even more robust (and also outlandish-looking) MagSafe 3-in-1 charger that lets you charge an Apple Watch, AirPods, and an iPhone all at once. Both seem to nudge us closer to a world in which the iPhone doesn’t need to support Lightning charging or any kind of wired charging whatsoever.

And Apple is rumored to be working on a portless iPhone for just that reason. Removing the port would mean Apple could avoid — if it wanted to — transitioning its smartphone line over to the USB-C standard it now uses on MacBooks and higher-end iPads. It would also allow the company to make devices even thinner, using the same logic it employed when it removed the headphone jack.

Waterproofing could become even more effective with fewer holes in your phone, especially if Apple can convince us (and cellular carriers) to embrace an embedded SIM card instead of including a SIM slot on each phone. With MagSafe, Apple could present an alternative way to charge your phone entirely through wireless charging and whatever cables and adapters it may come up with to solve your on-the-go charging needs.

But Apple is known to at least make an effort to offer a consumer benefit in exchange for eschewing universal standards or making a widely anti-consumer product choice. In this case, full investment in MagSafe does seem like it would have some very real quality-of-life improvements to owning the iPhone, even if it did involve some serious habit changes for iPhone owners.

For one, wireless charging is simply easier and less cumbersome than plugging in a cable, and even more so when magnets are involved so you don’t have to adjust the device’s positioning to ensure the charger activates. MagSafe also presents situations like using your phone in bed without worrying about bending or breaking a cable or damaging the phone’s port.

Plus, the sheer variety and utility of accessorizing you can now do thanks to built-in magnets on the back of the iPhone are exciting. The snap-on wallet and red leather charging case Apple is making are just a couple of the countless potential accessories we can imagine. Think of magnetic snap-on zoom lenses or bundles of cases that can attach magnetically and don’t need to be forcefully ripped off your phone if you want to swap one for another. PopSocket, the leading maker of removable grips for iPhones, is surely fast at work on MagSafe-ready versions of its products.

But MagSafe won’t really shine unless Apple gives it the spotlight, and doing that by making a portless iPhone seems much more likely after yesterday’s announcement. The big questions, however, are whether consumers will find it as hostile as removing the headphone jack and whether Apple can convince enough of us that it really will make our life better to outweigh the inconvenience of ditching all the cables, chargers, and other accessories we keep accumulating every time the iPhone undergoes a change.

Source: Thverge

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Following the 50W wireless fast charging of the Mi 10 Ultra, Xiaomi has once again set a new record for wireless fast charging. Today, Xiaomi wireless charging crossed the 80-watt mark for the first time, breaking the global mobile phone wireless charging record.

On the morning of October 19, Xiaomi officially announced a new global record for wireless charging of mobile phones, and Xiaomi crossed the 80W mark for the first time. Only two months later, it surpassed the 50W mass production record of the Xiaomi 10 Ultra.

It is understood that the Xiaomi 80W Wireless fast charging can charge a 4000mAh battery to 50% charge in 8 minutes and full in 19 minutes, which is the highest known charging speed and power wireless charging. From the official data released, the charging speed of Xiaomi 80W wireless second charge is fully comparable to some wired fast charging, such as the common 44W, 65W, and other high power wired charging.

The following is the development history of Xiaomi wireless charging

• 2018.03 Xiaomi launches its first 7.5-watt wireless charging in China
• The Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S was the first phone in China to support wireless charging, debuting with 7.5 watts of wireless charging.
• The later released Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 boosted the wireless charging power to 10 watts.
• 2019.02 Xiaomi launches world’s first 20-watt wireless fast charge
• Xiaomi Mi 9 is the world’s first 20-watt wireless fast-charging phone, leading the mobile phone wireless charging industry into a new stage of practical and useful.
• 2019.09 Xiaomi’s world’s first 30-watt wireless flash charge
• Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro’s world premiere 30-watt wireless flash charge shortens the charging time of the 4000mAh battery by about an hour, comparable to mainstream wired charging speeds.
• And then released the Mi 10 series, the continuation of the 30-watt wireless flash charging technology, not only to improve the charging experience in the 5G era but also to make convenient charging in multiple scenarios possible.
• 2020.03 Xiaomi releases its first 40-watt wireless flash charge.
• Xiaomi’s exclusive 40-watt wireless + MI-FC flash charge technology, charging 57% in 20 minutes, about 2280mAh; full 4000mAh in 40 minutes, continuing to maintain the industry’s fastest charging record.
• 2020.08 Xiaomi launches the world’s first 50-watt wireless second charge
• With a 50-watt wireless second charge, the large 4500mAh battery can be charged to 100% in 40 minutes, charging even faster than wired charging of the same power.

 

Source: sparrowsnews

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