Wireless Charging

Power supply is probably the last thing keeping our iPhones and Androids from being fully wireless. Wireless network connectivity has been there since the beginning. Then we got wireless headsets. And recently wireless displays. But there still is this final cord that requires a connector and has to be plugged in every day.

This will change.

The good news is Apple will introduce wireless charging for the iPhone 5. At least this is my prediction.

The competitors have already embraced wireless charging. At the Mobile World Congress LG had their entire future handset line ready to be fully wireless by adopting inductive charging. Powermat marked a strong presence there as well. But I think again we need Apple to tell the World about this feature and then everybody will start to demand and expect wireless charging everywhere. The technology is mature, the bad news however is there is no single standard. Everybody tries to introduce their own.

And the bad news is Apple will introduce yet another wireless charging standard.

So then we will have to wait two or three years for the regulators to enforce interoperability among charging mat vendors. As it happened to the Micro USB.