Apple is apparently developing technology that would help you to charge your iPhone and
iPad device without plugging it into the power socket on wall. A new report suggests that the wireless charging technology could work over long distances within the environment.
Bloomberg speculated that the “cutting-edge” charging could appear in
Apple devices released next year, so that would rule it out of making
its way into the upcoming iPhone 7, which is expected to arrive later
this year on cue with Apple’s usual launch schedule.
It’s not an easy challenge, for a number of reasons. The technology
required to capture enough energy is, for Ossia at least, rather bulky.
And as Bloomberg points out,
“efficiency of power transfer decreases as the distance between
transmitter and receiver grows.” If Apple is trying to build a sleek
phone, those two issues create a compounded problem where it’s difficult
to charge a battery quickly.