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Wireless Qi Charging units have become commodities and just about ever vendor now sells one. Including iClever. So what makes the iClever Wireless Charger worth checking out? Well, when paired with the iClever Boostcube 24W dual USB charger, it's actually a pretty solid combination and at a budget price.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tested out the combination of Wireless Qi Charger and 24W Boostcube wall charger with various Qi phones, including an Apple iPhone XS, Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google Pixel 3 XL. His results are...
iClever Wireless Charger: https://amzn.to/2XhYnR8
iClever Boostcube 24W: https://amzn.to/2Et74k9
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Wireless charger and wall plug? Let's see how they work together
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Dave Taylor here, and this time I'm looking at wireless chargers. Yes, again, wireless chi charging. These are very much a commodity
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This time I'm looking at this. This is the I-clever wireless charger, and it's a 10-watt fast charger
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But hold on, because it's the charging plate and it's the wire, but the actual plug
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you need to power it is not included so either you can use your own or you can get this one
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let me unplug it this is the i-clever boost cube 24-watt dual USB dual USB with smart ID so i'm going to
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come back to this in a minute let's plug this all together and let's talk wireless charging so it's all
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plugged in and there's a nice green LED that lights up when you put a phone on it so let's start with
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this this is my reference phone this is an apple iPhone 10 s and when I put it on here it is
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charging hopefully you see the little green light at the bottom there and it gets when I tested it
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about a 33% charge in an hour so that's not bad it's not a world record breaking super fast
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charge for an iPhone but it's not bad so the actual wireless charger like I said it's a 10
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watt fast charger and it has circuitry to make sure you don't have any issues with over
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temperature, over voltage, short circuit, or surge protection problems. So all of that's built in, so it's going to protect your phone
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And of course, if you don't have it on there, it's off. So it's not just radiating this field the whole time
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I think some people think that's how it works. It's not. It actually has sensors to figure out when the device is on there So Apple iPhone 10S 33 charge in an hour Then the next phone I thought I test would be the Samsung Galaxy S8
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Not the S-10. We'll get to that one, but this is the S-8. And when I put this one on here, I got a 32% charge in an hour
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So sometimes the Android, particularly the Samsung's, can charge faster than the iPhone does
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But in this particular instance, pairing the boost cube with the, the wireless charging pad gave me 32%
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So again, that's not bad. It's definitely functional. That one charged. And then the third one
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I always love testing with this one. This is the Google Pixel 3xl
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and the pixel is notoriously finicky about wireless charging, and it even actually gives you this sort of reprimand
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if you use a non-Google charger. Because I put it on here, and it is charging
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but at the bottom it says, charging slowly. Really? it's like stick that knife in so what google really wants you to do is to buy one of the google pixel
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paired wireless chargers which are crazy fast it is like super fast you can get a full charge in i think
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like 75 minutes so it's really much faster than anything else but it is from google and it's super
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expensive this whole setup is considerably less than the google charger but if you have a pixel
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you might want to actually look at getting one of the google pixel chargers however this
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does charge and again it gave me about that same charge speed so it gave me
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somewhere in the 30% range in an hour so let's see the LED shows status and
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this design is kind of interesting let me unplug it and show you it looks
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almost like they've actually like had plastic and then melted it on top and I
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like it actually it different it just you know it not quite that same hockey puck slash coaster that so many of these wireless chargers are And on the back you have a micro USB plug and that is how you power it
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And otherwise, there's nothing else to really talk about. It does have some non-stick, so it doesn't slide around
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And it has some slots cut out that gives it some cooling when it's actually charging a device
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because I guess that can actually generate heat. Okay, now you know
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So this comes with a 3.3 foot micro USB cable that plus the charging pad in black is 1499 on Amazon and if you want it in white it's only 1399
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So apparently black costs a dollar premium. So pick your color, figure out what you're going to do
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Now I got the black charger but I got the white boost cube
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So not really great on my matching colors. But so it goes, this is great
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I mean, there's so many really beautiful chargers out there now that if you're just using one of the ones that came with your device, you really should go and drop a few extra dollars in upgrade
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This is two, 2.4 amp plugs. So you can plug two things in simultaneously
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And Smart ID, like Quick Charge, will actually inquire to the device how much amperage it can handle and then give it the maximum possible
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So theoretically, it should charge as fast as it possibly can. And that means that like older devices will charge slower the newer devices
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Although again, in my actual experience with the testing, it seems like they're roughly about the same speed
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Still, even just having two plugs and having something with this nice plastic finish and obviously the prongs fold
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this is a highly portable friendly device. This is something you can easily toss into your suitcase
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And it also has overheat over current over voltage and short circuit protection So between the two of these you really have no issues at all whether your phone getting wonky or charging weirdly or something
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So that's good. Now, before I tell you the price of this, and this is a really nice price
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before I tell you the price, let me ask if you can go ahead and go ahead and go ahead
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Let me say that a couple more times. And subscribe to my channel, because I swear I'm not always this incoherent
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Anyway, so subscribe to my channel. when you do that and this is the i clever boost cube 24 watt dual USB smart ID
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wall charger it's a lot of words and it is 999 at amazon.com that is like a
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no-brainer price for 999 upgrade get one of these sort of devices and you will be
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happy as you travel around or even in the office or something when you need to
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charge more than one device at a time and we all have lots of devices so
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together this is about 25 bucks And that gets you everything you need and you will have wireless charging and you know how fast will it work on your device
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Well, it depends on your device but it's an easy simple solution and gives you some flexibility and if you actually want to get this in white
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You will actually save a dollar and it'll all be paired so that would even look more attractive than what I have here
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So with that I'm going to go back to charging that Let's see which one should we charge I think I will charge the Samsung Galaxy
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And that means I will catch you in my next video
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