With AirPower officially dead, here are the best wireless chargers you can guy for your iPhone, AirPods and whatever else device supports wireless charging.
Apple has canceled AirPower. That’s not an April Fool’s joke. It's not a hoax. It’s not a typo. It’s not a glitch in the matrix. AirPower is well and truly dead.
Apple has officially canceled its AirPower project, citing the difficult it was having meeting the standards of quality they expected from the charging mat.
After multiple delays, AirPower appears to finally be making its debut. The wireless charger from Apple was announced in September 2017 and promised a new way to charge devices. However, it entered a non-stop loop of delays due to its complicated coil structure, forcing Apple to delay it by over a year and a half. That delay appears to be coming to an end. According to a report from...
2018 turned out to be a disappointing year for Apple’s AirPower. Specifically, it never launched, with no indication when it will be available. In 2017, the company promised a wireless charging case for the AirPods alongside AirPower wireless charger, but neither actually showed up. We don’t know much about the former, but the latter is allegedly poised to make its debut in 2019....
Apple’s AirPower may not be dead after all. Apple posted a new job listing on its site for a “Wireless Charging Co-op” who will help “build the world’s best wireless charging user-experience.” The job listing isn’t anything out of the ordinary, but the fact that it specifically mentions AirPower is noteworthy. The release of AirPower has been called into question seeing as it’s been...
Apple was quiet about its AirPower wireless charger during its iPhone event last week even though it was announced a year ago. The company reportedly ran into engineering issues that forced the delay but even a year later, Apple still can’t seem to get its wireless charger to work. According to reports from John Gruber (via Daring Fireball) and Sonny Dickson, Apple simply cannot figure...
Don’t expect to see Apple’s wireless charging mat anytime soon if at all. In fact, the ambitious accessory that was announced in September 2017 might’ve been canceled. The AirPower, detailed as a multi-device wireless charger, has been removed from all areas of Apple’s website a year after it was first announced. Apple has yet to confirm anything, but the outlook isn’t so good. The...
It has been nearly a year since Apple announced its AirPower wireless charger and it is still not out, though that is expected to change this fall. One of the details we’ve yet to hear is pricing, but if it’s anywhere near a rumor says, Apple’s AirPower is going to be quite expensive. According to Chongdiantou, a Chinese website, industry insiders speculate the price of AirPower to be...
Earlier today a report from Bloomberg detailed how Apple has struggled to make its AirPower wireless charger, running into unexpected “technical hurdles” that caused it to be delayed. The report also dropped in an unexpected nugget that wasn’t known until now: Apple considered removing the Lightning connector from the iPhone X. “During the development of the iPhone X, Apple weighed...