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The EU is enforcing USB-C on portable devices

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tom66:
I don't see Apple doing a wireless only iPhone, they would be massively behind the competition in charging speed.  A modern smartphone can do 25-30W charging now (how good that is for the battery is debateable I guess) whereas Lightning was already behind at 14W, and Apple's wireless charging is limited to 15W.

Ranayna:
For me personally, charging speed would not be the issue. I tend to avoid quick charging anyway, since the added heat might have influence on the lifetime of the battery. As long as it is from empty to full over night i'm fine with slow charging speeds. Though faster charging on demand would be a nice feature.

What i could not live without though, is the option of getting my photos off the phone without using the internet. Plug in the cable, allow access, and you can easily pull everything off. The direct connection is also essential to recover the phone via iTunes, so it is reassuring to have that option. And yes, i had bricked iPhones that i did need to recover.
Of course it might be possible to do local wireless connectivity with the fast charge pad, but i think that would be slow.

Berni:
I have not went trough the details of this EU law, but as far as the USB-C specification goes the USB-PD support is an optional feature.

So a USB-C host may chose to not provide USB-PD functionality and simply provide a fixed 5V 1.5A on the port. At the same time a USB-C device may choose to just use the 5V available from the start and draw less than 1.5A. So you only need to use USB-PD if you want more power. This means if the EU law made USB-PD support mandatory, that would sort of go against the official USB-C specification.

All USB-C cables are supposed to be rated for a minimum of 3A so they might use that as there limit. There are also 5A cables that have to identify themselves with a chip.... that hopefully Apple won't get the idea to make a special one. No idea if messing with this violates the USB-C spec or the new EU law.

If the law was written in a smart way it would mandate USB-PD support for devices that consume between 7.5 to 100W. But there is no way the legal pencil pushers there would do this much research into the laws they are putting together.

Karel:
If a charger port is available on the device, it MUST be a USB Type-C charging receptacle combined with the USB Power Delivery charging communication protocol.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-INIT/x/pdf   page 28

Berni:

--- Quote ---3. In so far as they are capable of being recharged via wired charging at voltages higher
than 5 volts, currents higher than 3 amperes or powers higher than 15 watts, the
categories or classes of radio equipment referred to in point 1 letters a) to m) shall:

(a) incorporate the USB Power Delivery, as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1-
2:2021 ‘Universal serial bus interfaces for data and power - Part 1-2: Common
components - USB Power Delivery specification’;

(b) ensure that any additional charging protocol allows the full functionality of the USB
Power Delivery referred to in point (a), irrespective of the charging device used

--- End quote ---

Yep it looks like you have to have USB-PD if you draw more than 15W, so that is well done. You are still allowed to have extra proprietary high power modes, but they still have to retain compatibility with USB-PD.


The slightly worrying thing is that this would require all laptops under 100W to use USB-C for charging (Okay those are ultralights anyway). However it also says that once 240W USB-PD becomes mature the law should be bumped up to there. This would now include the big chonky gaming/workstration laptops. Not sure if it is a good idea to have those sort of powers running trough the tiny connectors continuously (especially as these laptops get really hot too) while requiring the motherboards power input circuitry to handle 240W from a input voltage range of 5V to 48V. These boatanchor laptops could not change up any usable amount from anything less than 30W

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