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If you have an Apple Watch, you've learned to pay attention to battery life. You might even have one of those clumsy charging cables in your computer bag, purse, or backpack. No more! The ANKER Portable Magnetic Charger for Apple Watch solves the problem perfectly. Better yet, it comes with a USB-A or USB-C connector and is Apple MFi Certified too. Tech expert Dave Taylor tests one out and finds it a must-have for every Apple Watch owner.
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This is a tiny but powerful Apple Watch charger
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here with my new Apple Watch Series 7
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It's really nice. But like all Apple Watches, you do have to manage power
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It lasts somewhere about 24 hours, but I find that I don't really want it to get down to the very bottom of the charge
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especially if I'm poised to go to bed and it's warning me that you need to charge it before you go to sleep
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This is like, ah, I don't want to have to do that. So you end up charging, you end up managing power
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Now, maybe by the series 10 or the series 13 or something, we'll actually have 48 or 72 hour charges, which would be fantastic
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But at least this one has the always on screen, which probably eats up some battery
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Be that as it may, I find that as an Apple watch own, I do have to pay attention to charge
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Now, Apple ships that long cable with the little magnetic charger on the end, but that's pretty clumsy
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Enter this. This is the Anchor Portable Magnetic Charger for Apple Watch, and it is a terrific little device
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So, pull this off. I have the USBC version, which is right there, and they also have a USBA version, but it is MFI certified
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That's important because that means that it's actually been the protegger. tested by Apple and meets all their parameters and MFI supposedly also has a chip involved that
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you can only get if you certify through Apple's testing process. Not sure how that applies to a
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wireless magnetic charge, but be that as it may, it does mean that you're guaranteed this is
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going to work and it's going to work fine within all the legitimate parameters and specs for a
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charge Your watch isn going to overheat It not going to get over voltage Nothing like that And if you wondering MFI actually stands for Made for iPod This is going back to the early days of Apple peripherals when they had that big 30 connector
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That's when the MFI certification started. And on a wired cable, an MFI cable does mean that there's a tiny little chip from Apple
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that the manufacturer has integrated into the connector that you would put into your iPhone, iPod
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iPad, et cetera. So I guess the Apple Watch isn't the I-watch, so maybe it should be MFW
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Be that as it may, this is compatible with every Apple Watch made, including the latest
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Series 7. Like I said, this has the USBC connector, but you can also get it with a USBA connector
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Now, since I am deep into the Apple ecosystem, I do have a MacBook Pro that has USBC. So here's
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where this is fantastic. I can plug it in to my USBC port and it's ready to charge. So if I take
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my watch off and then just lay it on here, it's charging right now. It's just sitting there
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and charging. I don't even have to open up my computer because those ports are hot. So really
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really terrific. Now, let's say that that's not exactly how I want to do it. Well, if you have
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your own 20 watt charger, which you should, because it makes things faster
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You can imagine plugging this into the wall, right, which I simulate with this
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and then having this like this. And then again, I can just lay my watch on top and it's charging
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And since it's magnetic, it's going to stay on there even if someone bumps it or something
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Really simple, really easy to work with. Very elegant design. So as you can see, it's really easy
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It does have a little cap, which probably you're going to lose
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at some point but probably not a crisis because it all really solid One of the things I like about Anchor is they really bring their A game to their manufacturing There are a lot of cheap knockoffs I would say that they are not one of those They actually do a good job and they also include an 18 month warranty So honestly that might be longer than you going to have this particular series of Apple Watch Now dimensions wise it two inches long by 1 inches wide by 0 inches thick and it is
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is really, really light. Honestly, it is like a magnet. If I had to compare it to the weight of my watches
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not dissimilar to the watch minus the band, really simple and easy to work with. Now, I know what
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you want to know is, all right, well, how fast is it charge? I'll tell you, I tested it in two
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different scenarios. And here's the thing. I think the Apple Watch, like the iPhone, like a lot of
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these other devices, charge at a different rate depending on how depleted the battery is. So if you're at
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5%, it will charge faster to 50% than if you're at 70% and you're trying to get to 100%
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Be that as it may. When I plugged it into my MacBook Pro, I got a 40% charge in an hour
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When I plugged it into my 20 watt charger, it did better
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It got a 46% charge. And this 20 watt charger, in case you're wondering, this nice little unit, is the Scosh
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HPDC20 and I just have this in my computer bag because you always want a 20 watt charger and it's easy USBC
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obviously perfectly compatible with this so is it as fast as having that actual wire from Apple plugged
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into a 20 watt charger I don't think so but I think it's plenty fast enough that if I'm looking at
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my watch and I'm sitting down to work for a bit and I say oh looks like I could do with a little bit of a
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boost on my charge then I can pull this out of my computer bag plug it into my computer put my watch on it and then just not think about it for 20 30 minutes and then say oh that looks good
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and then put it back on. And even if it's only a 20% charge at that point
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because I've only done it for 15 or 20 minutes, hey, 20% charge should get me through a couple more hours of my day
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So big fan. I think that this is just a must-have addition
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to anyone that has an Apple watch and is out and about all the time
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Obviously, it is plenty small enough to keep in a purse or a backpack or a computer bag
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You can keep it in your desk and no one else will ever know what it is, so no one's going to lift it
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I don't know, you might work in a different environment that I do, so hopefully that's not an issue
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But be that as it may, we just need to talk about the price. Now, before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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Great. This is the Anchor portable magnetic charger for Apple Watch, and it's 3899 at Amazon.com
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If you want to get the one with USBA, which is the rectangle, rather than USBC, which is what this one is
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then you can drop $4 off that price. But either way, it's a little spendy compared to some of the non-MFI certified units that are out there
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But honestly, I'd rather pay a few more dollars and have something I know
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is certified to work with my Apple Watch without me ever having to worry about any issues with
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the charge. So it's all I got. This, I believe, is a must acquire. So check it out. You're for
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yourself. That's all I got. I'll catch you in my next video
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