Wireless charging isn't a new technology

It's been in toothbrushes for years. It's slower and uses more power than from a cable. It's also not very practical as it would require charging mats be installed everywhere or packing an extra bulky piece if kit when travelling.

NFC has yet to take off for payments and I doubt we'll see it used via mobile phones when it does. People will want to pay from their bank accounts and the banks won't want to give a percentage to the phone manufacturers so its most likely to be built into existing credit/debit cards.

I don't see NFC offering any major advantage over the latest Bluetooth standards for transferring data between devices.

NFC is quite interesting nerdy tech but when you look at the practical applications its a bit meh.

There's nothing particularly exciting about this latest iPhone but its also not really missing any must have features either. It's just a set of incremental updates.

Posted By: Ben on September 13th 2012 at 02:18:07

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The new iPhone (General Chat) - conker, Sep 12, 19:26:42
- Disappointed that there is no wireless charging or NFC (General Chat) - wesley, Sep 12, 19:52:18
  - Wireless charging isn't a new technology (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 13, 02:18:07
  - made the switch from iphone to samsung galaxy s3 few weeks (General Chat) - eddie, Sep 12, 20:02:27
  - The Galaxy S3 is superb. Everything the 5 has got, inc NFC (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 19:55:42
    - Thanks Yellalee (General Chat) - wesley, Sep 12, 20:33:50
      - I would. One X also good. Check out the iPhone though. I have an iPad and love that (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:40:38
        
        Right i'll do some research and have a look at the iPhone when it's out (General Chat) - wesley, Sep 12, 20:45:03
      - I like the S3 BUT (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 20:35:54
        
        Oh that's another thing (General Chat) - wesley, Sep 12, 20:48:55
        
        See, I HATE iOS for video. None of my *coughdownloadedtvcough* works on it (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:42:30
        
        How long does it take you to do say an hour of HD film? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 12, 21:21:02
        
        Hmm, seems a bit quicker than what I use. Can't remember the name of it. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 21:25:09
        
        that's the problem I'm having with the Samsung (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 21:20:04
        
        Nobody with any sense uses Kies. (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 12, 20:40:33
        
        could you suggest one then? (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 21:22:00
        
        First search result in the Google Play store (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 21:29:12
        
        that could be helpful, thanks BUT (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 21:37:15
        
        I haven't actually done this on my current phone (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 21:39:51
        
        Never touched Kies. Couldn't even tell you what it looks like. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:41:09
    - Don't care much about smartphones, but I have an HTC thing through work (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 12, 20:21:33
      - My last HTC (Desire HD) was the worst battery life I've ever seen. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:24:53
        
        HTC One X, that is. Other smaller screen handsets will probably be slightly better, as (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:26:05
    - have you tried changing the voice recogniser from Samsung to Google? (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 20:08:28
      - Really? Might give that a go. Although it is still so gimmicky as to be useless, IMO (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:09:15
        
        Love my S3. (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 12, 20:13:57
        
        yeah, it is a bit (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 20:13:45
        
        I may be being a div, but where do I change that setting? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:22:04
        
        Settings - Language and Imput, Speech - Voice Recogniser (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 20:31:52
        
        ooops, didn't see vvvvv (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 20:32:14
        
        Settings -> Language & Input -> Voice Recogniser. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 12, 20:28:30
        
        Of course. I was being a div. Ta. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:29:44
        
        Ha! That's it isn't it. "oooh that's clever". (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:16:35
        
        Use it for dictating messages when driving... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 12, 20:18:45
        
        See, I'd find that so distracting when driving. I'd spend half the time watching thescreen (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:21:39
        
        I did - until I learnt it was ok to trust it! (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 12, 20:27:43
    - what is nfc (n/m) (General Chat) - earlydoors, Sep 12, 19:59:45
      - Near-field communication. Contactless payments,?ber-quick phone to phone data transfer etc (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:04:19
        
        isn't contactless payments from a phone a bit risky (n/m) (General Chat) - earlydoors, Sep 12, 20:05:22
        
        I believe the Google Wallet app needs a PIN to open it (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 20:08:28
  - *not sure now (n/m) (General Chat) - wesley, Sep 12, 19:52:40
- I have to say though (General Chat) - Charles21, Sep 12, 19:43:18
  - Apple genius in the past was inventing hardware or features we didnt yet realise we wanted (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 12, 19:47:56
    - You can't invent a whole new product group every year (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 13, 02:41:35
  - U wouldn't want to do that.... (n/m) (General Chat) - Taxi 4 Johnson, Sep 12, 19:45:07
- Apple shares..... Peaked won't ever go higher! (General Chat) - Taxi 4 Johnson, Sep 12, 19:38:08
- i like iphones. never bought one though. (General Chat) - doncoop, Sep 12, 19:31:06
  - Might have phone in the title, but phone is 1/10 of what they are now. (n/m) (General Chat) - songwriter, Sep 12, 19:50:17
  - The suggestion is that the new low end model will be the iPhone4 (General Chat) - conker, Sep 12, 19:42:37
  - It's worth it (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 12, 19:33:57
- I concur conker........ (General Chat) - Karnivore, Sep 12, 19:30:02
- You can change the ringtone (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Sep 12, 19:27:48

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