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Samsung, Qualcomm Announce New Partnership For Wireless Charging Standard By Way Of Alliance For Wireless Power (AWP).
What is one thing we all share in common on our beloved smartphones; something that regardless of brand, manufacturer or size we all do at some point in the day with our mobile devices? That’s right — charging. The act of plugging into some form of tethered cable to a wall/car outlet is a long held, daily tradition that frankly we’re all quite sick of. In 2012 it pains us that we still must rely on cables to get our devices the electrons they need. While more exotic battery technologies with month-long runtimes would certainly be the go-to evolutionary step in our minds, we’d simply settle for something seemingly more attainable in the short-term — wireless charging.
A few companies such as PowerMatt have had pretty great success with early implementations, though widespread adoption is sorely lacking. That said, Qualcomm and Samsung believe they have what it takes to finally get wireless charging out of the obscure corner and into the mainstream public spotlight with a new, proprietary standard.
Announced yesterday at CTIA in New Orleans, Samsung and Qualcomm’s new alliance, the Alliance for Wireless Power (AWP), will seek to create a better, more efficient wireless charging standard by allowing non-metallic surfaces to join in on the fun while also promoting healthy dialog between alliance members to more easily promote the technology’s growth and adoption.
Up until now, Samsung (and many other consumer electronics companies) have been part of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) pushing the Qi standard, a standard that while mature, simply hasn’t evolved into a mainstream technology or been widely implemented. Hopefully the market might of Samsung and Qualcomm, two companies who control and manufacturer vast chunks of the consumer electronic realm, can finally make wireless power a real, easily found thing in the real world.
Via: cnet, IntoMobile
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