This week:
- We celebrate 5 years!
- We regale you with some of our favorite stories from past shows
- Our hardware expectations from Apple’s rumored March event
- Why iPhone 8’s wireless charging will probably be lame
- Apple has five teams working on their next-generation charging tech
- Why iPhone 8’s camera could pump out industrial-grade slow motion
- Steve Jobs gets a beautiful new home on Apple’s spaceship campus.
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On the show this week
iPhone 8’s wireless charging won’t be as good as we hoped
- If you were hoping Apple had developed a spectacular new wireless charging system for iPhone 8, you’re going to be disappointed come September.
- A new rumor claims that Apple won’t be using range charging technology developed by Energous as previously expected, but instead one of the existing solutions already found in rival smartphones like those made by Samsung.
- Adding fuel to that fire, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has only recently approved a version of Energous technology that delivers very low power over just a few inches.
- The iPhone would require higher levels of power and a wider range. A solution that meets these requirements is yet to be approved by the FCC.
Apple has five different teams working on wireless charging
- Accord