Many smartphones and wearables from Samsung feature wireless charging. Just place them on a wireless charger, and they'll get charged. You don’t have to plug in a cable every time or make your desk look ugly. But wireless charging takes away your freedom as you can’t hold the device in your hand when it is charging.
But what if your Samsung phone or wearable could charge without you having to attach any accessory to it? What if the device could charge even when you are walking around in a room with the device in your hand? Well, that might soon be possible.
AirFuel RF can charge multiple devices at the same time, even when they're on the move
AirFuel Alliance, an organization that has expertise in wireless charging, has announced AirFuel RF, a technology that can transfer energy wirelessly up to a few meters away. That means you don’t have to attach any cable or puck to your device or even keep it on a wireless charger. This technology can charge your device even when you are holding it in your hand or walking around with it in your pocket. The charger can be on your table, and it can wirelessly send packets of energy to your device, similar to how Bluetooth and Wi-Fi send data wirelessly.
As the name suggests, AirFuel RF works over radio frequency waves. An AirFuel RF charger will send packets of energy through the air over a radio frequency to AirFuel RF-equipped devices to charge their battery. This is something similar to what Samsung used in its latest smart TV remote controllers.
The company says an AirFuel RF charger can even charge multiple devices at the same time. That means you can be holding your smartphone in hand, wearing a smartwatch on your wrist, and having your true wireless earbuds plugged into your ears, and all of them could be charging simultaneously, without the need for any wires. Isn’t that cool?
Samsung is already an AirFuel RF member, so the tech could come to future Galaxy products
Well, AirFuel RF isn’t the first or the only technology that can transmit power truly wirelessly. Xiaomi showcased Mi Air Charge in 2021, which worked in the same way AirFuel RF works. However, Mi Air Charge hasn’t made it to any mass-market product. Plus, it was Xiaomi’s proprietary charging technology. AirFuel RF, similar to Qi, can be used by other brands, and the good news is that Samsung is an AirFuel member. It means that there's a high possibility we could soon see Samsung devices featuring AirFuel RF, and they could charge without any wires.
AirFuel is going to showcase AirFuel RF at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in Las Vegas, and we are excited to see products that have the technology. According to the company, this technology is currently suitable for devices that consume low power, such as smartwatches and wearables.
AirFuel even claims that this technology can completely eliminate the need for batteries in IoT or small smart home products. And that seems very much possible. Instead of a battery providing the power, an AirFuel RF can keep transmitting the charge to all the IoT devices at your home.
While 2023 is proving to be a bad year for tech brands, especially semiconductor businesses, as consumer demand is decreasing rapidly, this also seems to be a year of cool innovations. Apart from AirFuel RF, we got to see Micro LED technology becoming accessible to more people, thanks to Samsung’s new Micro LED-based 50-inch TV, the company’s Relumino Mode, which enables people with vision impairment to see TV more clearly, and Qi2 wireless charging standard which brings Apple’s MagSafe wireless charging feature to Android smartphones.
