One of the features of my S10 I ended up loving is the ability to charge my (wirelessly chargeable) headphones via my S10 which can act as a wireless charger

The S10 line is long past its feature-updates timeline and may have just received its last security update, so I fear yours and my S10e are soon to be retired.

I will greatly miss the SD slot and headphone jack...

Yup! I actually intend to trade mine in for an iPhone 15 now that they finally have USB C.

Sony still have SD slots and headphone jacks in their top-line Xperias, I switched there from Samsung for exactly that reason.

Samsung peaked with the S10. I don't know what I'm going to move on to when mine gets too long in the tooth.

LineageOS works very well on the S10e

What do you mean? Wouldn't you still need a charger between the phone and the airpods case?

It's charging off your phone battery which to me is crazy considering how hard it is to replace the iphone battery

I don't want more cycles on a battery that isn't user serviceable

The iPhone 14 battery is considered user serviceable (but not the pro), the iPhone 15 pro has now adopted the 14's design. Basically the rear panel is now straightforward to remove, when before one had to go in through the front.

I almost shouted “SCREWS!!!” when I saw them on the Pro during the video.

I assumed it was meant for occasional use by people on the go (like on an airplane without a charging port) who need to charge their AirPods case.

It seems unlikely that people will routinely charge their AirPods from their phone when they could just as easily use the same charger that they just charged up their phone with.

> how hard it is to replace the iphone battery

its like 30 minute job, maybe less for pros

So easy!

The battery inside your headphones is negligible. Each (for Airpod Pro) is ~1% of your phone's battery. The case has a little over 10%, if charged from 0-100%

No.

This might be asking too much, but it would be neat if the phone was on a low battery (less than 10%), when you plug in a peripheral like the Airpods it will know to instead charge the phone from the plugged in device. Or for that matter, to be able to plug one iPhone from another iPhone without any risk of your phone's data being accessed.

Although it would be speculation, I imagine this will be included because USB-C iPads already have this feature.

One can charge a range of devices, including other iPads from a USB-C iPad. One can even change the charge direction between the two devices.

Charging on these devices is independent from data access. The user is prompted to allow data access which requires authorisation.

I was searching for your comme t since 3 hours or so. Now that the event is over, do you know whether an iPhone 15 can charge another iPhone 15 directly ? A Pro?