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Apple iPhone Charger is High Quality But Overpriced

Apple iPhone Charger is High Quality But Overpriced

Posted May 21, 2012 at 5:40pm by iClarified
Ken Shirriff has performed a teardown of Apple's iPhone charger and found it to be a high-quality power supply designed to produce carefully filtered power.

Apple has obviously gone to extra effort to reduce EMI interference, probably to keep the charger from interfering with the touchscreen. When I opened the charger up, I expected to find a standard design, but I've compared the charger to the Samsung charger and several other high-quality industry designs, and Apple goes beyond these designs in several ways.

Apple uses super-strong AC prongs, a complex over-temperature/over-voltage shutdown circuit, and an isolation distance between primary and secondary that appears to go beyond the regulations.


The Apple charger sells for about $30; however, despite its higher quality, it's still way overpriced. Samsung's cube charger sells for about $6-10 and the Apple charger only uses about $1.00 in additional parts.

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Apple iPhone Charger is High Quality But Overpriced
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AFEXSCHRIS
AFEXSCHRIS - May 22, 2012 at 5:11am
I like to pay for good stuff I have for a long time because is gooooood apple the best
Sabtain
Sabtain - May 22, 2012 at 1:01am
Apple makes high quality products so they can charge a lot
Vlaphor
Vlaphor - May 21, 2012 at 10:47pm
Apple ------- ------- is ---- Quality But Overpriced
Simba2585
Simba2585 - May 21, 2012 at 8:32pm
Good to know my money is well spent on great engineering.
Spritz
Spritz - May 21, 2012 at 7:04pm
As if we needed an article to tell us this. Thanks Captain Obvious
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