Apple officially cancelled the AirPower in Mar last year. (Image: Apple.)
Apple seems to have crossed the hurdle that doomed the AirPower last year, according to serial leaker Jon Prosser.
For those unaware, the multi-device charging mat was canned by Apple last year after the company concluded that it couldn’t meet its high standards. Heat generated from its many overlapping coils is often rumoured to be the crux of the problem; but Prosser also mentioned that getting it to work with the Apple Watch, which uses a proprietary wireless charging scheme, is another.
According to Prosser, Apple engineers have been working from at with AirPower prototypes (called ‘C68’) in the last few months, and have finally gotten it to work with the Apple Watch. Apparently, the solution is to use a built-in A11 chip to dynamically regulate the charging to control heat. The revised AirPower also use few coils, Prosser says.
Now, I’m posting this because Prosser has a pretty good record when it comes to leaks — and because I really hope that AirPower is back on. But I’ve my doubts with the leaked photos, especially with the position of the Watch when there’s so much empty space on the mat. Also, putting an A11 into a charging mat seems like an overkill, no?
(Image: Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) on Twitter.)
Source: Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) on Twitter.
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