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Still using portable external batteries for your iPhone that require you to cable up? Old school. The new BENKS "MagClap" MagSafe 5000mAh external battery snaps right onto the back of your MagSafe-compatible iPhone (series 12 or 13) and charges it up with no wires or cables required. Nice! But is it fast or frustratingly slow? Tech expert Dave Taylor claps a MagClap on his Apple iPhone 13 Pro to find out...
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Small, sleek, and effective. What else can you ask for in a MagSafe charger
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out, let me pull it off the back of my phone
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This. This is very cool. This is the Banks MagClap, MagSafe external battery, and it's small, it's slim
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It has a really nice, soft plastic finish to it, sort of a rubberized plastic finish
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And it's a 5,000 mill-amp hour battery. And most importantly, it's MagSafe
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You can see that on the symbols there. But that means if you have an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 13, you can do that
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And your phone is now charging. Now, it's not charging at the maximum possible charge for a wireless or Chi charging system
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but it's charging pretty darn fast. Now, it obviously is super easy to work with
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If you don't have an iPhone 12 or iPhone 13, it does come with these sort of little magnets that are
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I guess, have an adhesive on them. So you can put this on other devices to use it with the magnet part
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And it is fundamentally just a wireless chi charger. So you could use it with other phones too
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The benefit of using this is that, you will actually make sure it stays in place because obviously that is pretty darn convenient
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in terms of me being able to charge my phone. Now, let me see what else I can tell you about it
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It is the direct competitor to the Apple MagSafe battery pack. Let's bring that one up and I should
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say the MagSafe from Apple is way more expensive It Doesn include a charging cable or anything and it only they rate it at 1 milanmp hours but I think that if you do the math it actually about 3 milanp hours
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This, remember, is 5,000 milanp hours. So theoretically, this is going to give you more charge than the Apple device will
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It also theoretically runs faster if you do this and then you plug it in. So I thought, hmm, well, let's try that. So it has a U.S
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USBC on the bottom. So it's sort of fun because in some sense you end up getting that USBC iPhone, right? And it's now charging as hopefully you can see. And that's pretty straightforward because now I can charge my phone and charge the battery pack at the same time. Very convenient. Now let's go back to the Apple unit and I will just tell you that Apple unit charges at 7.5 watts. I'm pretty sure this does
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is a 5 watt charge. Now, what the company says is that it should do a 15 watt charge when plugged into
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with a cable to at least a 20 watt charger, which is what I have
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And then 5 watts when you're just using it wirelessly, I didn't find that
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In fact, I was surprised to find that my phone charged at the same rate, whether it was
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plugged in or not. Now, I don't mind because it was getting just a smidge less than 40% charge in an hour
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and it's worth mentioning that because of the way that phone charging works
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you get more charge if you have a really low battery, but if you want to go from like 90 to 100%
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that's going to be a slower charge than 40 to 50% because of how it tries to manage battery life
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So Apple used to get in trouble for that, but I think that was actually their engineers
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not being able to tell the story because I actually want my phone to last as long as it possibly can with its battery So surprise to say is that the benefit of this is not that it charges my phone faster in actual real life but that I am charging this unit and my phone
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simultaneously. Now, if you have it unplugged, then I should mention there is a button on the
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bottom, and there are four LEDs, so you push the button, and it shows you what your charge
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status is. When you put it on the back of your phone, you will need to push the button
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to wake the charger up and then the phone will start charging. So that's pretty straightforward
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but you're going to want to remember to do that. Otherwise, it's not going to work real well
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So it is 3.7 inches by 2.5 inches by 0.49 inches. And here's something worth knowing
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The Apple device is 0.43 inches. So there are six, one hundredths of an inch difference in thickness
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between the Apple device and this Banks mag clap. So long and short of it, they're basically the same size
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Now, one huge advantage that Banks has is it comes in lots of different colors
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So this is purple, really like it. There's baby blue, navy blue, black and white also
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The Apple device, white. It's Apple. That's all they ever seem to produce
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They did occasionally do other stuff. And I guess the phone comes in different colors
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I don't know why accessories don't, but be that as it may
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So I would say the real win for this is that it is dramatically less expensive than the Apple device, less than half price
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So you might not get exactly the same functionality, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if I have the Apple MagSafe battery pack on my phone and I plug it in, I'm going to get a much faster charge than this
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But honestly 99 of the time what I want is this in my pocket or purse or bag or backpack And then when I looking at my phone and I saying oh that charge is looking mighty low to be able to push the button and drop it on the back
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and know that it's going to line up and get into just the right spot and charge at 38% an hour
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that's a pretty great thing. And that's something where you will find this to be a absolute
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lifesaver when it's the end of the day and your phone's just about dead. And you don't want to
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be tethered to a wall because you don't want to be charging and standing around and waiting
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So do this, put it in your pocket again. Super easy to work with. So only thing let's talk about
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is the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my
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And we're connected. Great. Thank you. This is the Banks MagClap, MagSafe
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external battery and it's 4399 currently discounted to 3959 at amazon.com. That 39.59 compares very favorably to $99 for the Apple unit
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So you could have two of these in your pocket and still have enough money to buy a cup of coffee
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versus buying one of the Apple unit. So you decide if you want to get 90% of the way there and save a whole lot of money
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or whether you really just insist that everything you buy has the Apple logo on it
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Good luck to you. I hope you're very wealthy. That's all I got. I'm going to put this back on my phone and let it finish is charge
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So I hope to catch you in my next video
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