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Leaked Images Allegedly Prove iPhone 8 Will Have Wireless Charging

Leaked Images Allegedly Prove iPhone 8 Will Have Wireless Charging

Interesting.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

We all love to kid ourselves saying we're going to sleep at a decent time, only to get into bed, spend 30 seconds with our eyes closed, and then reach for our phones and scroll through Facebook.

Next thing you know it's 5am, you're watching bare knuckle gypsy fights and you're sat in your own shit and piss.

The only thing ruining the experience is that at some point you're going to have to readjust you're position in order to accommodate Apple's rather short charging leads.

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That could all be changing with the iPhone 8 though, as reports claim that wireless charging is set to drop.

Rumours have suggested that a lead will no longer be needed to replenish your phone's battery, but until now word of mouth has been the only evidence to support these claims.

Slashleaks have now shared an image which furthers the evidence, Mashable reports, edging us ever closer to a life without wires.

The leaked photo shows a module which includes the device's charging coil, though Mashable point out that it's unclear whether it will be included inside the phone or feature on a separate charging pad.

Credit: Slashleaks/Weibo

Though most minds aren't up to date on all the technical electrical stuff that goes into running a phone, we're told on good authority that there's a female Lightning socket and its dimensions mean it could fit inside an iPhone.

Other than that, information for the picture is hard to come by.

Last month employees from Foxconn, a company in China that produce the devices, revealed information allegedly regarding the tenth anniversary iPhone model, which included wireless charging, the Mirror reports.

Credit: Slashleaks/Weibo

It began with a thread on Reddit where an 'insider' offered to answer questions about the phone, prior to Apple's WWDC event.

They referred to the model as the iPhone x, complying with rumours that it wouldn't actually be called the '8'. Their information also matched other rumours, such as the home button being removed so that the display could be bigger. This means that the touch ID will be on the screen, too.

"We saw test units with fingerprint scanners mounted below the glass but performance and yield rates were not good. I've seen reports of a rear fingerprint scanner which I haven't seen," an employee wrote on Reddit.

They also claim that wireless charging will come as standard, much like the wireless headphones that were previously introduced. They also mentioned facial detection which can unlock your phone, as well as the camera running vertically down the back of the handset, and a curved screen.

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Topics: Phones and Gadgets, iPhone