AnandTech covered a company called Keyssa back in January during the CES show in Vegas. Their report's cover graphic shows Keyssa's marketing board that was at the show promoting 'KISS connectivity' – a high-speed data transfer without using metal connectors. The technology covers a wide spectrum of solutions. As our cover graphic illustrates, a user in the future will be able to place their KISS enabled smartphone near their KISS enabled desktop and watch a movie without having to connect one device to the other. The video below provides an overview  

The AnandTech report covered one of Keyssa's devices that magnetically attached to the back of a Quanta notebook prototype that would add connectivity options. That's briefly covered in the video below dating back to 2016.

 Another demo video reveals the Keyssa Display Dock

Now we're learning that Foxconn and Samsung are backing Keyssa so as to give this technology a larger footprint in the market, according to a new Reuters report. The alliance with Samsung and Foxconn is aimed at creating a design for mobile phones.

The Reuters report covered Keyssa's Chief Executive Eric Almgren saying that the goal is to remove the need for cumbersome and bulky cable connectors inside devices like phones and laptops, which are growing ever-lighter and thinner. If Keyssa is successful, the wireless data transfer technique could eventually be available in a wide range of devices.

Keyssa announced last October, together with Intel Corp, that it had come up with a design that could be embedded in so-called two-in-one laptops which feature detachable touch-screens.

Before Intel, Samsung and Foxconn entered the picture, Keyssa was backed by Tony Fadell and Andy Rubin's venture fund Playground Global. Rubin is also the CEO of Essential Products who is ready to launch their first Essential smartphone later this year.

Rubin is on record not supporting Keyssa. Instead they're new smartphones will use a different technology. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of Keyssa's Kiss technology.

Then again, perhaps Fadell wanted to give Samsung the exclusive use of this technology on smartphones so as to get the ball rolling on a much larger smartphone base like the Galaxy line of smartphones to help it become a standard faster. They may have decided to simply lock out Essential Products initially. For more on this, read the full Reuters report here.

For the record, Patently Mobile covered an LG smartphone design patent that illustrates a port-less design that you can view here. I've also seen a few such designs from Samsung as well but failed to report on them thinking it was a mistake. I'll be sure to pay closer attention the next time around.

Whether Apple has a similar technology in the wings or will wait until similar technologies become a standard is unknown at this time. Yet with Apple eliminating the audio jack, we know that ports are no friends of Jony Ive who dreams of the day they're eliminated once and for all.

Beyond the port elimination solution, the data transfer angle is covered by Apple's AirDrop introduced back in 2013 and AirPlay for transferring movies from an iDevice to Apple TV or a Mac.

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