{"id":40598,"date":"2015-05-12T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2015-05-13T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T09:12:49","slug":"first-third-party-apple-watch-charging-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/first-third-party-apple-watch-charging-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"First third-party Apple Watch charging cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40599 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0029-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"002(9)\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0029-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0029-450x343.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/0029.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512061148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40600 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512061148-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"20150512061148\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512061148-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512061148-450x343.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512061148.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first third-party charging cable for the Apple Watch is coming soon. Chinese manufacturers Kenodi have produced images of their version, which should be available for considerably less than what Apple are charging (\u00a325 for a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk\/product\/MKLG2ZM\/A\/apple-watch-magnetic-charging-cable-1m?fnode=d8aacaa8c48449741d9c839cf60cca1afbef2e791545af8af554f318415ccca38281d057c660a84b6764280fb28cca58c4cbe3e2779cacbec0187b06b7c1a962182f59293ebd4851e9a58f38488995b6fd47187a930a98963dd16934de9c1b44\">1 metre cable<\/a>, and \u00a329 for a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk\/product\/MJVX2ZM\/A\/apple-watch-magnetic-charging-cable-2m?fnode=d8aacaa8c48449741d9c839cf60cca1afbef2e791545af8af554f318415ccca38281d057c660a84b6764280fb28cca58c4cbe3e2779cacbec0187b06b7c1a962182f59293ebd4851e9a58f38488995b6fd47187a930a98963dd16934de9c1b44\">2 metre cable<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The cable uses short range inductive charging, allowing the watch to be charged without a direct physical connection.\u00a0The wireless charging is aligned using a magnetic system. If this all sounds a bit familiar, it is &#8211; Apple use the same system in their own official charger.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how Apple respond to this third-party alternative, given that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/5\/4\/8549633\/apple-bands-made-for-apple-watch-program\">Made for Apple Watch program<\/a> only covers third-party straps at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested to see a cheaper charging cable for the Apple Watch? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first third-party charging cable for the Apple Watch is coming soon. Chinese manufacturers Kenodi have produced images of their version, which should be available for considerably less than what Apple are charging (\u00a325 for a 1 metre cable, and \u00a329 for a 2 metre cable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":40599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,6,7325,7521],"tags":[194,7588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40613,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}