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while they're charging while the technologies that I really want to see succeed but really smart phone users haven't become fully enamored with it yet and meanwhile the reason is that there are different competing standards so what are those competing standards on what is the future of wireless charging well let me explain first of all I really must recommend you go to watch one of my videos about wireless charging there I give a demonstration using a nail and some wires and a battery and voltmeter about the basic principles of how wireless charging work that will be linked here in the description below but please do go and watch that because that will give you a background to what I'm going to tell you now now wireless charging is one of those features you find in some of the top-end flagship smartphones but the manufacturers the OEMs don't really make a huge fuss about it it is in the top end Galaxy smartphone some version of the LG G 6 has wireless charging it but really there's not a big fuss made about it now one of the reasons for that is that there are three different competing organizations that are trying to push forward their what a wireless charging technology now in the background one of the biggest thing that's probably happened is this year at will join the wireless power consortium with their key charges now the Chi charge is what you find in the galaxy phones from Samsung for example now the fact that Apple join this this organization means there's now lots of rumors that the iPhone 8 will support it and lots of Apple fans say well what's the iPhone supports it everybody will support it now that might not actually be the case the future will show but they tell you about the different types of charging technology because they end all about distance how far you have to be away from the charging station now the one that we the most popular today is Chi and Chi has two different types of system one is the one where you touch the phone directly on the back of a paddy has to be within a quarter of an inch within seven millimetres otherwise the charging doesn't work on that called induction charging and that's what we see today on two phones like the galaxy s7 now the chief kind of also includes something called resonant charging which allows this distance to be slightly large 45 millimeters is about 1.7 inches and that's good when you want to have the child is built into a desk for the office or maybe some furniture so you put your phone down the rep arm of your chair and it starts charging even though it's not exposed at the surface now the third type of wireless charging is what I'm calling uncoupled and that's a system where the device that's being charged and the charging station don't need to be next to each other in fact there's a new type of technology which the devices can be up to 15 feet away now the leader in this or at the moment is a technology called what up not what's app but what up and the idea is that when you walk into a room that had one of these charging base stations your devices can start to be charged remotely and it does that by sending out radio signals in this five gigahertz band but then our cords are charging to happen in the devices and in fact these base stations can be programmed so that when it sees maybe your smartphone it gives that priority in charging than it does maybe over your Fitbit and the reason for that is there isn't that much power that can be transmitted through this new system we're talking maybe only 700 milliamp hours so that's not very high now Apple also rumored to be working with the what up technology and that again has given a whole bunch of rumors about wireless charging in future versions of the iPhone now just to quickly mention the three different camps that are available moment one is the wireless power consortium with the Qi charging and that's Palka minute and Samsung LG HTC media take em now of course Apple the other is the fuel cell alliance and that was made by a merger between the Alliance for wireless power and the power matters Alliance PMA now PMA charging is what you actually find inside also of some of the leading flagship Samsung phones a Samsung kind of went with both ways and called Samsung are one of the partners of the air/fuel alliance as our LG Sony HD Qualcomm Intel mediatek and now also while way so as you can see some companies are hating their bet and put on being part of both different specifications and the third one is this one called what up which I just talked about at the moment they don't have any product a/c out they say they'll have a product out at the end of two 17 and Apple are rumored to be working with them now while technology is great while innovation is brilliant one thing we all hate is competing standards which means that you invest in one ecosystem you invest in one way of doing things and then find out that the other one did became the boss and we really hate that so for consumers things I really just do shout out to all of these different to power charging organizations get your act together and work together because I don't want to buy a phone and then find out that actually I chose the wrong one and there are so many examples of this in consumer history VHS and Betamax HD DVD and blu-ray and there's just so many other examples really we want one option that works well and we're prepared to pay for it if it does the job properly now there's one area that I haven't mentioned that could really be a deciding factor when it comes to wireless charging and that is when there's discharging or happening the phone and the base station could also communicate now at the moment there is some basic communication happens at the two kilobits per second range is very very small when a phone is placed on a charging pad because I just gas between the charge on the phone what level of power wants to be used what the battery level ISM so they can talk to each other but wouldn't it be great if you could put your phone down on to a charging pad on a desk and let's say you put it down on a table inside a coffee shop and actually up comes the menu and you can order from there and that ultimately gets them over to the bar where they're making the coffee's for you all about if in the future you have an electric car it drives into your garage it starts to use wireless charging to charge it up at the same time it starts to talk to the wireless charger may be receiving software updates maybe it's kind of downloading its fuel statistics and it's kind of Diagnostics all these things would be great at the moment that doesn't exist in a kind of a generalized form there is that idea to have that discussion about power levels but wouldn't it be good if technologies would change so that actually you can have communications while you were charging now really the best solutions the moment I kind of using NFC together with Qi charging or maybe to have kind of some Bluetooth enables but if you've got all of that kin with that stuff going on between the two devices will it be great if you just built in so you had wireless charging and near-field communications of a sort at the same time maybe that will be the things that will make wireless charging take off and be the kind of technology that we all want in our smart phones well - go Sims from Andrew authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up please use the comments below tell me do use wireless charging I know some of you really love it some of you just don't care some of you - will mash when you buy a phone some of you if it's got it I don't mind tell me what you think about wireless charging tell me what you think would be the best thing about wireless charging that would make you change your mind so that you would start to use it all so let's get to subscribe to and royal authority is YouTube channel hit that little bell icon so that you get notifications when we release a new 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