{"id":165817,"date":"2021-01-29T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/xiaomis-air-charge-tech-looks-magical-but-i-have-a-million-questions\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T05:28:46","slug":"xiaomis-air-charge-tech-looks-magical-but-i-have-a-million-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/xiaomis-air-charge-tech-looks-magical-but-i-have-a-million-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Xiaomi\u2019s Air Charge tech looks magical \u2014 but I have a million questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Xiaomi\u2019s Air Charge tech looks magical \u2014 but I have a million questions<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if right now, in an office in China, a bunch of Xiaomi employees are jumping up and down and yelling, \u201cSuck it App<\/a>le!\u201d The company just revealed that it has invented a device that wirelessly charges your devices over the\u00a0air.<\/p>\n

What Xiaomi has claimed to achieve is long-distance wireless charging.\u00a0The company claimed\u00a0it could charge several devices at once at up to 5 watts (which isn\u2019t much).<\/span>\u00a0It hasn\u2019t specified the\u00a0Mi Air Charger\u2019s range, but it said that it can work across \u201cseveral meters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Xiaomi Air charging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Chinese tech giant\u2019s technical explanation for how it made this happen is to stack up multiple antennas and use beamforming to push out millimeter waves. The phone also has to have a special set of antennas and beacons to inform the charger of its position in the room continuously.<\/p>\n

This sounds like a dream, right? Other companies like Ossia and Energous have been working on this tech for a while too, so it does seem like a matter of time before it becomes commercially available. But remember that Apple also presented its AirPower concept to charge multiple devices on a wireless pad,<\/span><\/p>\n

This sounds like a dream, right? Other companies like Ossia and Energous have been working on this tech for a while too, so it does seem like a matter of time before it becomes commercially available. But remember that Apple also presented its AirPower concept to charge multiple devices on a wireless pad,\u00a0but couldn\u2019t deliver because of manufacturing quality issues. So, while Xiaomi\u2019s device looks amazing on paper, we wouldn\u2019t know its viability till we see one physically.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also questions about compatible phones, interfering objects, potential clashes with medical devices such as pacemakers, and power consumption. With so many moving parts, it\u201dll be a tough mass-market product to deliver.\u00a0I am, however, keeping my fingers crossed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Published January 29, 2021 \u2014 05:28 UTC\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n