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What Finally Killed AirPower

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Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by koiz »

mcguire wrote: post #238
oe wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a dock and replaced it with wireless charger as soon as they were available. The ease of just placing your phone on a surface vs. lining up your phone with the dock is well worth it.

You mean lining it up precisely on the surface? That's why I stopped using a wireless charger.

Might be using the wrong wireless charger, I've heard this complaint and its all it could be.

If it isn't what your really telling us is you couldn't learn how to place a phone on a small surface.

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by erikpukinskis »

jefftk wrote: post #240
coldtea wrote: post #199

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You only did it after a medical emergency. If the drive to do it was innate without any "hard lesson" required, it would be OCD. Compared to tons of people who couldn't care less on living on 70% or 50% or 20%.

Learning from other people's mistakes is OCD?

OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder. Learning from people's mistakes is unrelated.

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by rincebrain »

sp332 wrote: post #61
rincebrain wrote: post #31

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Is that not something many people can do one-handed? The last time I had any trouble doing that one-handed was in the era of proprietary inch-wide charge connectors.

Last I checked, I only had one opposable thumb per hand. I need that to hold my phone, so how would I grab the cable? With my teeth?

As the other commenter said, the more convenient method is to hold the phone upside-down and pull it out.

The less portable method, assuming you have a phone sufficiently smaller than your hand and sufficient pull, is to pull the cord out using some of the non-opposable digits that are located near the phone bottom when it's right-side up.

I usually opt for the former, but the latter is much more feasible than I would have expected (IME USB-C is not that hard to tug out, by mistake or otherwise, though it's still better than microUSB B).

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by X-Istence »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #139
_bxg1 wrote: post #53

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It takes something easy and makes it effortless . Like AirPods, this has a surprising number of implications that you really don't think about until you try it. If I'm just setting my phone down on my desk and it's at 50%, and my cable is right there, I may not bother to plug it in. Especially if I might get up again in 5 or 10 minutes. But if I can just set it down in a particular place and regain a couple percentag…

This is what I never understood, even slightly. Why not just give an iPod / iPhone dock without all the wireless bullshit? I prefer a dock as it holds phone at a handy angle, syncs, and doesn't have the myriad of drawbacks of bluetooth. Smartphone battery life is so shit, on every model, that I always plug my phone in. Even if the cable / socket is only going to be around for minutes. So no saving here. In the days o…

Here's a wireless charger from Anker that sits at an angle that I use at my desk:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Qi-Certified-Compatible-Fast-Ch...

With the angle it sits at, when notifications come in FaceID will correctly ID me and unlock the device so I can at a glance see what the notification is.

As for syncing? All of that is done to the cloud, so that's not really something I care much about.

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Post by [deleted] »

quotemstr wrote: post #76
judge2020 wrote: post #75

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You would risk even one pacemaker failing in light of 'technical progress'?

Well, yeah --- just like I'd risk one person getting hit by a train in order to achieve the "technological progress" of rail transport. Every new technology comes with risks. If we focus on the risks and ignore the benefits, we can't make progress, and it's progress that ultimately benefits more people than any amount of harm avoidance.

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Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by coldtea »

jefftk wrote: post #240
coldtea wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You only did it after a medical emergency. If the drive to do it was innate without any "hard lesson" required, it would be OCD. Compared to tons of people who couldn't care less on living on 70% or 50% or 20%.

Learning from other people's mistakes is OCD?

People with OCD still learn from their own and other people's mistakes and adapt their own behavior.

It's not the learning part that's important, it's how one applies what they learned, and the way they act on what they fear might happen that can fall into OCD.

An obsession with being always 100% charged when you leave the house, immediately plugging to charge etc, always checking to make sure, etc, can point to OCD, even if it "makes sense" (e.g. to avoid being ever stuck without charge in an emergency).

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by azinman2 »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #146
azinman2 wrote: post #145

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Many people are not like you. I personally don’t plug in at my desk even though a cable is there, as it’s one more thing to do. It’s also then tethered, meaning I have an extra step if I want to walk away and bring my phone with me. It’s also tethered meaning I have a loose cable now dangling in my way, which aside from functional issues is also ugly to look at. I know many who almost never charge their phones, essen…

All of which is covered by having a dock as the act of picking it up breaks connection. With the added advantage they were cheaper than wireless, and unlike AirPower actually available.

You can’t use the phone while it’s in the dock, and putting it in and taking it out is actually quite annoying. I’ve had several docks in the past, I wouldn’t go back.

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by IanCal »

mcny wrote: post #170
bestnameever wrote: post #158

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>What has changed in battery technology recently? I have no idea. I imagine most of the improvements in battery life stem from them being able to fit larger batteries in smaller packages along with hardware and software optimizations as well as improvements in cell reception. It could also be my usage. I listen to a lot of music during the day and perhaps the larger batteries are just able to accommodate me longer th…

» I loved my Nexus 6 but I doubt I could still be using it still today so I am impressed. Can I ask what your reasons are for not having upgraded it? I generally upgrade my phones bc of the battery but this time I hope to just get it swapped out in a year or two. My main excuse is I got it a year after it was launched on a black Friday sake so I want it to last one more year. On top of that I got to use a Samsung Gal…

Not sure on the camera or rest of the specs, but the moto G7 power is pretty cheap I think and has a 5Ah battery. Haven't got around to reading reviews since it launched the other month.

Re: What Finally Killed AirPower

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Post by rconti »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #139
_bxg1 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes something easy and makes it effortless . Like AirPods, this has a surprising number of implications that you really don't think about until you try it. If I'm just setting my phone down on my desk and it's at 50%, and my cable is right there, I may not bother to plug it in. Especially if I might get up again in 5 or 10 minutes. But if I can just set it down in a particular place and regain a couple percentag…

This is what I never understood, even slightly. Why not just give an iPod / iPhone dock without all the wireless bullshit? I prefer a dock as it holds phone at a handy angle, syncs, and doesn't have the myriad of drawbacks of bluetooth. Smartphone battery life is so shit, on every model, that I always plug my phone in. Even if the cable / socket is only going to be around for minutes. So no saving here. In the days o…

I need two hands to unplug from my dock.
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