Comments on: WildCharge Is Just About Ready to Roar!

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:50:08 +0000

Good question.

That might be worth leaving a question on V’s post, since he is actually using one now. (lucky dog!)

By: Christopher Gavula

Christopher Gavula — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:48:26 +0000

It also occurs to me to ask – does this cause a field that interferes with WiFi or BT communications? If so, leaving your device on it when you regularly receive OTA mail could become problematic.

By: Christopher Gavula

Christopher Gavula — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:46:45 +0000

That could be.

Fortunately I do my mail OTA (non-Exchange), but I can think, that with an iPhone or other smatphone, you probably want to regularly attach and transer music, photos, etc. or download updates, etc. I keep a skin on my phone and it makes docking difficult – I have to use a cable rather than a dock to make it work. I can see this potentially creating similar problems where the docking port/power port are one and the same and you can’t even connect a cable, let alone put it into a dock (although you should need to use a full dock if you’re using this for power).

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:44 +0000

Chris, I think that this is a situation where Microsoft Exchange would be VERY necessary…

By: Christopher Gavula

Christopher Gavula — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:29:56 +0000

Am I to assume there’s some kind of pass-thru for device synchronization? I remember reading, not too long ago, that data transfer rather via induction weren’t there yet.

If you have the remove the skin in order to sync, that will certainly reduce the overall efficiency of the solution. I can’t believe they would do that, but I don’t see a pass thru un the photos – it looks solid.

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:58:53 +0000

alese, I think you just described all of our gadgets!

By: alese

alese — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:32:07 +0000

I just don’t see the point of having a special skin for each device. Unless they incorporate this into devices, it’s just going to be an overpriced and not all that practical charging sollution – something to show to non geek friends that would make them go “cool” but they wouldn’t buy it…

…come to think of it, it’s just like most of my gadgets

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:53:03 +0000

It would be beyond awesome if a company would be forward-thinking enough to license this technology and incorporate it into their design…

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:46:47 +0000

This is really cool — I can’t wait until they incorporate this into the phone itself — without any need for a case. Of course that is assuming an industry which feels every phone needs its own special charger tip would ever forgo the profit of constantly selling new power cords when the tips randomly change from model to model….