A small circuit of a few millimeters that allows charging a mobile device via radio waves even at a distance from the transmitter. A perfect tool for the future of wireless refills of smartphones and that may be present in the iPhone 8.
It’s called WattUp and is the first wireless charging for smartphones remotely. You read right: Energous, the company who created it, will allow a simple component of 7×7 mm to recharge a smartphone remotely without having to physically build on a specific basis.
The novelty lies in this, making possible the mere proximity to the small component designed charging the phone even during use. A new very important that from time users and in some way phone manufacturers would like to implement or to see implemented in their devices.
In practice this translates in the activation of the charging when the smartphone enters a certain working area of WattUp. Essentially up to 5.5 meters, as well as declared by the manufacturer, the smartphone is placed in charging automatically stops and when the distance between the transmitter and the device increases.
A cycle which could then allow Apple to exclusively receive the WattUp technology on its new incoming iPhone thereby allowing users to be able to recharge even at a distance and not more with the use of cables or with the simple wireless charging.