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The Apple iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X all now support Qi wireless charging. So cool! But are all Qi chargers the same? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tried out the Belkin Boost Up Qi Charger for the iPhone and his findings may surprise you...
If you have a new iPhone X or either of the iPhone 8 line and you're not taking advantage of Qi charging, by the way, you're definitely missing out on something very cool...
Belkin Info: https://www.belkin.com/
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has Belkin created the best cheat
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charger for the iPhone let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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iPhone chargers now I'm not looking at a
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wall charger I'm looking at something
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new and modern and it's different for
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the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 8 and 8
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plus because it's cheech are geing and
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it's pretty cool so I'm actually
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charging my phone right here there's
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this is the Belkin boost up and I simply
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put my phone on it and it's charging
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easy as that
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I love wireless charging wish I had it
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everywhere now what makes the Belkin
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interesting is that it's a 7.5 watt Qi
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charging unit so most of them that come
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out our are 5 watts and Apple just
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released an update to the OS that
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supports the faster charging and the
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higher wattage but does it actually go
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any faster so I looked at that and the
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answer is not really
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so in an hour it charged up 22% on the
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battery so that's about the same as I
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would get with a 5 watt Qi charger so
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there's no great shakes here that this
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is some great new thing that's gonna
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give you a hundred percent charge in 90
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minutes or something like that
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it's just not how a charging works but I
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will say super easy I have had this
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right next to my bedside table and just
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put the phone on it leave it the next
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morning I grab my phone and it's a
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hundred percent charged ready to roll
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super easy now there's a couple things
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worth noting about this and one of which
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is it comes with its own charging plug
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so it's not just a sort of generic micro
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USB connection and you're on your own
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but you can see it actually has its own
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wall plug and everything which I suppose
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is good the other end of it definitely
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is uniquely shaped to fit into the
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particular Belkin plate and then on the
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front there's this non-stick surface
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that helps your phone from not falling
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off or vibrating off if you get lots of
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messages or calls and there's a small
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LED it's very
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it took me a while to even notice it but
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the LED turns green if your phone is
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charging and it's otherwise off if your
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phone's not charging now one of the
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things you apparently have to worry
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about when you're designing qi chargers
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is false positives because you don't
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want this thing emitting the whatever
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electricity however it works whatever
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magic voodoo is behind it but you don't
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want that going on when there's not
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actually a Qi charging device on top so
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one of the things belkin's done is it
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put a lot of circuitry and design into
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that the other thing they've done is
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they've added thermal protection so some
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of the less expensive Qi charges when
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you use it for a while they actually
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warm up this one has just the barest
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sensation to it now one of the things
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people complain with this particular
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charger is they complain it doesn't work
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with phones that are in cases this is in
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a multi layer case that is hard plastic
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and rubber inside of it and it's
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charging so I'm not sure where people
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are complaining about maybe they don't
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know how to put their phone on the
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charger which might be a design issue
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but if you just make sure it's
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reasonably centered you're good to go
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and that's really all there is to it
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comes with a three year warranty and I
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really like it and I keep hoping it'll
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just charge faster because it is
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theoretically 50% more wattage than a
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than a more traditional or regular Qi
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charger so take it with a grain of salt
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I'm gonna continue using it I like its
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design I like that it's big and easy to
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work with so this is the Belkin boost up
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and before I tell you the price let me
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go ahead and ask if you can click on
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that subscribe button
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really appreciate it now the price it's
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pretty expensive you can get a cheap
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charger through eBay or Amazon from some
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unknown company for like 10 15 bucks
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this is a premium product at $59.99 so
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then the question becomes is it worth
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$60 and the answer is I gotta say I'm
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not really sure I am hoping that at some
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point along the way Apple will release
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yet another software update and then
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suddenly it'll really be rockin with the
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seven and a half watt otherwise I would
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probably look for some more reasonably
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priced
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Solutions because if it's all the same
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and they're all going to be making the
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same beep when you get it to work and
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they're all gonna be able to plug into
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the wall and you're gonna get the same
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speed charging then I'm not sure it's
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worth $60 anyway that's my opinion this
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is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
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next video
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