Apple has a new wireless charging pad called the ‘AirPower’ which is essentially a mat with room for your new iPhone 8 or iPhone X, as well as your Apple..
Apple has a new wireless charging pad called the ‘AirPower’ which is essentially a mat with room for your new iPhone 8 or iPhone X, as well as your Apple Watch, and even AirPods with a new optional wireless charging case accessory. It’ ll charge all of them without any cables required, but you’ ll have to wait until 2018 to get one – Apple said it’s coming early next year.
The AirPower mat uses a new kind of charging standard that supports multi-device charging, which might explain why it’s not shipping right away: It probably requires more work to bring it to full scale production, which is actually something that was reported as a rumor earlier today prior to this event.
Apple’s AirPower accessory actually should do a lot to help bring about truly wireless device use, since it solves a lot of the inconveniences of using wireless charging today (support for only one device per pad, requiring specific placement) . We’ ll be watching to see updates on the shipping timeline, but Apple will probably sell a bunch, depending on pricing, which has yet to be announced.
