Piers
Whether or not that website is genuine, I'm sure that it's possible to restrict
what charges and what doesn't, but in practice it isn't.
I can charge my iPhone and my iPad off anything that provides sufficient
charge. I have used crappy Winders computers (work ones, now they're really
crappy), off "travel chargers", at the BMW garage (on those carousel things)
from a Mophie emergency thing, from a TeckNet battery.
Chris
On 4 Jan 2013, at 10:59, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Think again, Chris. It turns out that Apple can 'interpret' standards
> somewhat flexibly.
>
> See here: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/icharge.html
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 January 2013 08:59
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Another gadget obsoleted.
>
> That's not true, Ken. A current is a current from a USB port and I can
> charge my iPhone from any computer. But iPads need more than just a USB
> port in a computer to charge at any decent rate.
>
> Chris
>
> On 4 Jan 2013, at 02:00, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> It's probably OK for phones but if you're trying to charge an Android
>>> tablet what works for an iPad may not work for an Android tablet
>>> despite what the specs say.
>>
>> Usually the problem is the other way around where the Apple devices
>> won't charge on anything but Apple specific devices. That's why the
>> iPads won't generally charge in the USB ports of most computers, but
>> will in the Apple computers.
>
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