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If you're looking for a great combination Apple Watch charging stand and phone charger, you'll want to check out the Griffin WatchStand Charging Station. It's a good solution for a nightstand, office desk, or even your kitchen. Except for one thing, as Dave Taylor from http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explains...
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hi Dave tail here and this time I want
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to talk about Griffin's new watch Stan
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let me get the name right it's the watch
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stand charging station now that's word
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station turns out to be important
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because they also have a watch stand
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charging dock which is basically just
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the little tower and that's nice this is
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interesting this is actually a sort of
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different approach for them and as you
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can see it is phone and watch friendly
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but let me show you why that works it's
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because underneath they have a USB
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basically hub so you plug the device
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into the wall and it comes with adapters
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for different you know world power
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levels or world plugs I guess is better
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you plug that in and then you plug in
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your USB devices in the end underneath
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and of course the watch one you just run
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it all the way up the tower so it's here
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so when you are ready you just drop your
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watch on there or you can drop it
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sideways if you like nightstand mode it
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works either way and it charges now
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that's the good now the bad is that it's
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just a lightning cable and in fact it
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doesn't come with a lightning cable so
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you'll have to supply your own not a
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huge big deal but where that gets to be
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a bit of a drag is that I really want to
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have something where I have something
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where it's like a little dock for my
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phone and a dock for my watch and then
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they would both be there and they would
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both be happy but sadly my phone is not
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entirely happy with this because I have
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to literally just plug it in and then it
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just sits on that's on the side and as
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you can see it's kind of a little clunky
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now I've wounded most of this wire
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underneath so it doesn't stick out too
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far and this works well enough for your
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nightstand ER for your desk but I really
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wish I have other docs that are actually
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proper phone docks even with a lightning
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cable and I really wish Griffin would
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have done that
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it would have had the doc for the watch
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which is like this which works really
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nicely and had a doc for the phone where
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it might have just SAT like something
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like this and then of course you would
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have everything going and it would be
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just a more elegant solution and the
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thing is is that this is kind of spendy
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for what it is to this is 59 99 on the
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Griffin website and to me this is not a
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sixty-dollar item now yeah it has the
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little USB hub and there's some
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technologies involved here but it just
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feels a little expensive for what it is
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and like I said I'm not a huge fan of
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how the phone actually works on the doc
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I feel like they could have done
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something a little more elegant with a
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little more design effort but
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nonetheless if you're looking for a
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single plug device that you can have on
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the edge of your desk on your nightstand
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by your bed maybe even in your kitchen I
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actually tend to have charging devices
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in my kitchen which means I have to make
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sure that they get cleaned occasionally
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but if you're looking for something like
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that this can be a nice solution and
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it's from griffin technology so I'm
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confident it's going to last a long time
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they do make really nice products I just
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wish their design would have been maybe
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one more iteration to make it a little
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bit more elegant a little bit more user
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friendly be that as it may you can make
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your own decision and you can learn more
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about this product at griffin technology
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com so 5999 this is the griffin watch
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stand charging station make sure you use
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the word station and this is dave taylor
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and i think i'm going to have to make
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sure everything's charged because i'll
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see you in my next video
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