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chi charging for five bucks let's see if
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this thing works Dave Taylor here and I
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have my iPhone 10 which works with Qi
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charging love it love it love it but I
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kept wondering how low can you go buying
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a Qi charger that would actually work
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with the phone or with of course any
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phone that works with Qi charging
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because there's some pretty expensive
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options out there so I went onto
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gearbest.com and I got this this is the
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fantasy Qi wireless charger and it was a
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whopping four dollars and 73 cents on
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gearbest in total five dollars and 46
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cents including shipping how crazy is
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that but five bucks for a Qi charger
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this thing even work so I thought let's
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so you have to bring your own charger it
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comes with its own micro USB cable but I
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got my own one so I plug it in and you
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can't see very well from there but
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there's a little red LED and then if you
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put your device on it when it's charging
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I don't know if you can see yeah you can
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see there's a blue light that comes on
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that indicates it is actually charging
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now on the screen of the phone you can
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see the little battery icon has turned
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green on Android phones that work with
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Qi charging it'll work slightly
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differently so at the most basic level
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Qi charging how cool is that but it's
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not quite that simple because different
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Qi chargers actually charge at different
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rates sounds almost like a tongue
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twister but the question then becomes
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how fast is this thing actually charging
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and that's where the answer is not very
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fast so I timed it and looked at the
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percentages and this is an iPhone 10 so
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different Qi devices might work at
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different rates I plugged it into a 2.1
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amp charger you have to bring your own
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and it charged at about what was it
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about 15 to 20 percent charge per hour
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so that's not very glamorous that means
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this thing needs overnight to charge a
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phone whereas if you plug it in directly
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it's probably just three or four hours
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now everyone that's using Qi charging
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knows that there's a cost to the cool
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factor and the cost is that it's going
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to charge slower I don't care how you do
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it what magic you have plugging your
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phone into a charter is gonna be faster
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than having it do the wireless charging
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magic Lou isn't that cool
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but hmm twenty percent an hour that's
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nothing to write home about
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then again five bucks total so here's my
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take on this is that if you want to just
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play an experiment with Qi charging then
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something like the fantasy wireless
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charter could be a fun option and if you
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want to just like take it apart and hack
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on it or build it into some sort of
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device or maybe into a tabletop or
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something it's definitely the case that
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when you have a Qi friendly device and
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you put it on it it's charging and it
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does have some nice elements not just
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the color feedback but it has the
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non-slip surface and then the top you
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can see there's the red part that's also
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non-slip so when I put this on it's not
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sliding around even though the case
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itself is somewhat smooth so it's kind
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of a cool idea now again I can't
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emphasize enough don't get this thinking
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that I'll put my phone on here and in
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five minutes it'll be a hundred percent
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charged none of them work that way this
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particularly so does not work that way
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because I think it's just dropped
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pulling out a fairly low amount of amps
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so it's just not pushing a whole lot of
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energy into your device but it is
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nonzero and it is non-negative so if I
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leave my phone on the table and I do
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nothing it loses charge if I put it on
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this it gains charge not at a super fast
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rate but hey again and we're talking
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five bucks so it's not like this is a
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huge investment now before I wrap this
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up let me ask please go ahead subscribe
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touch and if you like what I'm doing and
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you want to give me good feedback that
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thumbs up icon is waiting for you to
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I'm glad I got it it's fun it's you know
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just one of these things where even if I
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lose it seriously has five dollars and
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46 cents on gearbest shipped so fantasy
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Wireless Qi charger I say check it out
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if you want to play with Qi charging or
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if you want to get some real
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top-of-the-line system that'll charge
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your device faster there are options
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Apple will be coming out with an option
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and you know they're all gonna be really
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expensive so Steve Taylor and I'll catch
