Home › News ›

A4WP and PMA Agree to Fully Merge

Jun 1, 2015, 2:10 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jun 1, 2015, 2:13 PM

The Alliance for Wireless Power and the Power Matters Alliance today agreed to merge operations. In February 2014, these same two organizations agreed to work together to create a single wireless charging standard. That means a core charging standard supporting a wide range of consumer, medical, military, and industrial applications has already been established, called Rezence. The organizations say today's news has been in the works for a while, and the integration process is underway and will follow with a coordinated product roadmap. A4WP president Kamil Grajski and PMA president Ron Resnick will remain in executive positions as chairman and president, respectively. The new organization claims to have more than 170 member companies, such as AT&T, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Powermat, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, and Starbucks. The groups claim the merger will lead to better consumer access to wireless battery charging and power management products. The organizations said they'll debut a new, branded organization later this year. The Rezence standard competes with the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi standard.

Related

Samsung Refreshes Galaxy S Series with S Pen, New Cameras

Feb 9, 2022
Samsung today announced its lineup of flagship phones for 2022: the Galaxy S22 series. The top-end S22 Ultra sees the biggest changes as it essentially absorbs Samsung's Note series with an integrated S Pen stylus and a more Note-like shape and design, instead of the Contour Cut design of the other models.

iPhone 14 Plus Offers a Big Screen For Less

Sep 7, 2022
Apple has revealed the iPhone 14 series, with new features, improved specs, and new size options. In place of a Mini option, the iPhone 14 will come in the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screen size options as the Pro models.

Samsung S24 Series Adds More AI, Updates the Hardware

Jan 17, 2024
Samsung has unveiled its lineup of flagship phones for 2024, the Galaxy S24 series. The phones sport multiple upgrades in both hardware and software compared to last year's models.

Samsung Expands Mid-Range Lineup with Galaxy A35 5G

Apr 18, 2024
Samsung is bringing more mid-range phones to the US this year with the introduction of the Galaxy A35 5G. Samsung brought the Galaxy A32 5G to the US in late 2021, but the A33 and A34 skipped the US.

Sonim XP5plus Emulates Traditional Two-Way Radios

Jul 15, 2022
Sonim has introduced the XP5plus, an update to its XP5s rugged feature phone with PTT (push-to-talk) designed for first responders and other field workers. While the phone has several upgrades, the most unusual is the two large physical knobs on the top, for PTT channel select and volume.

more news about:

Comments

This forum is closed.

This forum is closed.

Kaboodle

Jun 3, 2015, 12:54 AM

Arrrrgh!

It's time these companies decide which standard is actually better, and go with it. We need this to be industry standard so it can move forward. It's kinda sad, but I think whichever one Apple decides to support will probably win this battle.

gfondeur

It's sad but you so right on that

Page 1 of 1