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avon b7 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

avon b7 said:

The competition is more than fierce right now.

Largely a myth pushed by the tech press. Companies like Huawei are overly dependent on off-the-shelf technology. They're pretty far behind the curve when it comes to developing exclusive in-house tech. People like to talk about how Huawei has their own SoC designs now, but they're barely competitive with twice the cores. And nobody expects them to develop a mass market OS. 

I doubt you have anything to back that claim up, but Huawei is one of the phone industry's leading innovators. R&D is regularly above Apple's and just last year I believe they filed more patents than anyone else.

Everybody uses off the shelf components (Apple too) but Huawei is one of the world's most vertically integrated companies too.

To take a recent development. Rumours state Apple is moving up to 2,000 engineers to get working on a new modem. Currently it uses an off the shelf part.

Huawei has built its own for years and already has a 5G modem - shipping.

Apple uses off the shelf wi-fi. Huawei has developed its own. I believe it is currently the world's fastest wi-fi chipset on a mobile device.

I could go on.

KITA said:

MplsP said:

urahara said:

Do you have AirPods?

jbdragon said:

I think this is a dumb gimmick and just copying Samesung!!! I've always been for Apple just making these iPhones a little thicker so there would be no need for a camera bump, which in turn gives a little more space for more battery. Because I think a larger percentage of iPhone users would like a larger battery. Apple makes the iPhone a little more energy efficient. You think great, the iPhone will last longer, but no, Apple at the same time just shrinks the battery right along with it even more so. In the end, just making Apple a even larger profit. I don't see much need for the iPhone to wireless charge Airpods. I think it's a feature few would even use.

The battery in the AirPods case lasts up to 24 hours. Why would you need to charge them off your iPhone? If you have to go that long, odds are your phone is dead, too.

From the first time I saw Samsung's reverse charge feature I've said it was a dumb gimmick. I don't know about Samsung's hearing-aid headphones, but with AirPods, the battery in the case makes this unnecessary. Beyond that, you can't effectively use your phone while reverse-charging, doing so sucks battery from your phone when many people have trouble getting their phone battery to last long enough, and to top it off, you lose energy in the charging process. Lose-lose-lose.

You can use the reverse wireless charging while your device is charging via USB-C (dual charging). In the case of Samsung, you can use this to charge your watch, wireless earbuds or even another person's phone while plugged in. Of course, now all you need is a single USB-C cable.

It's also worth noting that the earbuds or watch have relatively small batteries and won't drain your phone too much even when topping up on the go.

Nothing about this is a "dumb gimmick", it's actually quite useful once you understand the applications.

jbdragon said:

I think this is a dumb gimmick and just copying Samesung!!! I've always been for Apple just making these iPhones a little thicker so there would be no need for a camera bump, which in turn gives a little more space for more battery. Because I think a larger percentage of iPhone users would like a larger battery. Apple makes the iPhone a little more energy efficient. You think great, the iPhone will last longer, but no, Apple at the same time just shrinks the battery right along with it even more so. In the end, just making Apple a even larger profit. I don't see much need for the iPhone to wireless charge Airpods. I think it's a feature few would even use.

mrmacgeek said:

Where's the courage these days? So disappointed!