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Tired of lugging around huge chargers for your laptop or tablet? By using Gallium Nitride, AUKEY has managed to produce tiny wall chargers powerful enough to fast charge all your gear, from a Nintendo Switch to an Apple MacBook Pro, Android to iPhone. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ looked at those of these devices, the AUKEY Omnia DUO with two USB-C plugs and the AUKEY Omnia Mix with one USB-C, one USB-3.0 plug. And they're awesome!
AUKEY Omnia Duo (two USB-C) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Wj9TOe
AUKEY Omnia Mix (USB-C, USB-A) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TV37wv
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These will charge you anything, including your laptop
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Let's have a look. Dave Taylor here, and I'm looking at these
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These are the latest and greatest from A.U. Key or Aouki, not exactly sure to pronounce it
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but we'll call it AUKee. They are fast chargers, and they're made with a completely different technology called gallium nitride
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You're going to hear more about this, but these are 65. watt fast chargers. And you're looking at them and you're like, no way, these are so small. That's the
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point, right? So one of them has two USBC connectors, and that's known as the Omnia Duo 65 watt
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And then one has a USBC and a USBA or USB3.0. And that's called the Omnia Mix 65 watt. So the idea
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is that these push out 65 watts of power. And you can see they're really small
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The prongs fold in. They're super easy and portable. And 65 watts means that this is better than the lower end of the two MacBook Pro
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chargers from Apple. And if you have an Apple computer, you know their chargers are quite a bit larger than these
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Rumor has it, they're moving to the gallium nitride, but we'll see
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So far we haven't seen anything. So 65 watt fast charge, if you plug two devices in, then each one drops down to 45
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watts. That's just how they work. They also use what's called power delivery, which is kind of
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interesting because power delivery works with all modern Apple devices. But when I get to performance
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you'll find that, as I found, that iPhones weren't so great at using the power delivery
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but the MacBook Pro that I tested with was a rock star. It worked great. But the idea is that power
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delivery, it's like quick charge, but it's a smarter technology. It's also an open technology, so
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anyone can use it. It's a smart thing to do. Each of these devices has overcharge, overcurrent
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and overheating protection. And I have to say when I use this, it didn't warm up at all
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which is quite different from like a classic MacBook charger where even if you using it to charge your switch or something that thing heats up This doesn So just a different technology
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Like I said, this is gallium nitride, and it basically gives you three times the density that you can sort of produce a circuit
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to produce the same amount of power. So that means you can have these be one third the size of other technologies
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and they're 40% less energy waste. And that's what that heat is, right
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So think about that. When you have a charger and it gets really hot while you're using it
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that's wasted energy. It's converting energy into heat unnecessarily. So these are also 40% more energy efficient
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Really cool. And I mean, the whole design, it's sort of this soft, sort of matte black plastic
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And as you can see in these closeups, there's a power indicator light. And then on the duo, there are two USBC, and obviously no big surprise on the mix
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There are the two different size plugs. So each of them is two inches by two inches by just a smidge more than an inch
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And they're really light. They're 3.6 ounces. These are so much nicer
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I'm going to just carry one of these around instead of my big clunky MacBook Pro charger
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And of course, any device that does power delivery, heck, any device that needs power, you can charge with one of these
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So this can not only charge your phone, this can not only charge your computer, this could charge your tablet, this can charge your switch, whatever you got, you know, speaker phone, whatever it is, you can plug it into this and it should do at least as well as its native charger, if not significantly better
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So let's talk about what happened. So the interesting thing is that the power delivery mechanism is only on one of the two plugs on each of these
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So on the mix, it's only the USBC that delivers power delivery
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The USB3 or USBA just gives you regular power. So on this one, it's the same thing
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The bottom plug gives you power delivery. The top plug is just a straight ahead secondary charge
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It still going to work fine but it not that extra little protocol handshake where I can figure out hey device what the maximum I can give you Because I really want to juice you up quick So important to know and the markings are extremely subtle
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Took me a little bit to figure that out. So here's what I tested with. I tried a bunch of phones first
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So, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 10S, and a, what is this? This is the Google Pixel 4
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and these worked really well for the most part. So we'll start with the 10S
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Now this one I plugged in to just the USBA. So this was not the power delivery charge
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That one gave me 28% charge in an hour. That's pretty slow
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Nothing to write home about there. So then I said, all right, well, let's try a different phone
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And this time we'll use power delivery. And so with the 11 Pro, I used the power delivery plug
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And I was a little disappointed. It only gave me 32% charge. charge in an hour. I was hoping that would be like double because I'm doing power delivery
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but this is the latest and greatest from Apple, so whatever they're doing with power delivery
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right now, it's in that phone. The real winner was the pixel four. This was unbelievable
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This charged 74% in one hour. That was pretty darn impressive. That's, I think, even better than
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the Google Pixel stand with a wireless charger. It just did great. And then, of course, because you
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can. I actually took my MacBook Pro, and first thing I did is I plugged it in and I looked at the
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system profile. And as you can see, it's not only charging. It is delivering the full 65 watts
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That was great. It charged 48% in an hour. That's pretty darn good. So this means that either of these
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can be perfectly functional replacements for that big, clunky MacBook charger. Now, my kids have all their switches, so I didn't have a switch around to actually test that, too
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But my guess is that's going to charge quickly too because the Nintendo also opted to use power delivery
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So that should work great. You know, basically any device you need that needs power, this thing's going to be able to power it
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And look how small it is. It's so small. Fantastic. Such a great piece of engineering Now only thing left to talk about is price and they a little spendy this gallium nitride is a pretty new technology But before we get to the price I going to ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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Cool. Now, the AUKee, let's going to get the logo side. So this is the AUKE key fast chargers. This is the Omnia Duo 65 watt with two USB plugs. This is the more expensive of them, 5499 at Amazon.com. And then this one is the Auki or AUKi Omnia Mix with USBC and USBA. And this one is 4699 at Amazon.com
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Now remember, this is not a new phone charger. This is a device that will charge any and everything that you actually ever plug into a wall
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And something this size is awfully easy to throw into a backpack or throw into your computer bag or just have right by your bedside, right
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You might want to have this right by your bed so that you can just relax in bed and do some work for the first couple hours of the day
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Or maybe the entire day, whatever it is. I am a huge fan and I am going to hold on to these for a mighty long time
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And I'm really hoping to see vendors really start to adopt that gallium nitride
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because this is just such an improvement in power adapters. I mean, I remember the old days where they had these bricks, right
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What an improvement. This is better and way smaller and way lighter
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So props to A.U. Key for making these. And I think you definitely want to check one of these out if you want to be on the cutting edge
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And with that, I'll catch you. in my next video
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