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Imagine a hybrid device that's both an attractive Qi charger for even the nicest executive desk and a portable battery pack ready to go at a moment's notice. The MIPOW Power Cube X is just that, a Qi charger that works as a simple desktop charger with a built in 5000mAh portable battery pack that also supports Qi charging. So cool!
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ puts the Power Cube X through its paces and finds it's a really innovative solution for a lot of the charging challenges of modern smartphones.
Learn more at http://www.mipow.com/
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a Qi charger that's also a portable
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power bank let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at chi
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chargers again I have an iPhone 10 and I
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really like wireless charging so I look
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at a lot of these devices now if you
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have a Samsung it's a couple others that
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also do wireless Qi charging it's super
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cool imagine you just put your phone on
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a surface and it starts charging it is
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ridiculously cool and easy now what me
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Pao has done with their power cube 10
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and I assume it's not pronounced power
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cube X their power cube 10 is really
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cool so they have this big charging pad
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that is certainly suitable to have on
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your desk and you can put your phone on
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it even in the case it is charging
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wirelessly big win but what makes this
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really unique is that you can pull this
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out and now you actually have this power
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bank it's a five thousand milliamp hour
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power bank so that's good and it's a
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power bank that has Qi charging so I can
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do this and it's charging and when I'm
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ready I just put them in several pockets
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and I'm ready to keep going so it's a
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power bank where you don't have to fuss
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with the wires what a huge win now let's
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talk about it just a little bit so the
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power bank itself actually has a little
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indicator so you can see how charged it
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is five thousand milliamp should give
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you probably two full charges of your
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iPhone or Samsung phone this is 2.7
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inches by 5.5 inches and now let's talk
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about the charging base first off you
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see there's an LED here that shows you
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if it's red then oops if it's red then I
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put that incorrectly then it's telling
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me that it's charging the power bank
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blue means it's either fully charged or
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it's not present either way that's fine
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and then what's also interesting about
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it is on the back let me unplug it on
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the back you have a USB C and it comes
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with the USB C cable but it doesn't come
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with a charger so BYOC bring your own
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charger or of course you can plug it
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into your computer as you desire
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but it additionally has a USB 3 plug so
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you can use this as part of a daisy
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chain which is great few of a computer
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that doesn't have a lot of USB plugs you
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can plug this in and then daisy chain
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something out of it so you haven't lost
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a plug so much smart so much good design
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now the base itself is fairly big at 4
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by 7 inches but as you can see it's
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really a nice design and they've just
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done so much right it's super light
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which is nice and it's something that in
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black or in white the whites even nicer
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actually this is something that even an
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executive could have sitting on their
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desk at work and it's just very nice and
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elegant you drop this in you let it
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fully charged and whenever you need to
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you grab it and you've got a couple of
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extra charges for your phone so crazy
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smart
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now also comes with foreign object
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protection and overcharge protection you
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want those because if I put an on
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charging device on here I don't want
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this to end up running out of battery
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because it's desperately trying to
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charge your phone you doesn't do that
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which is good and in terms of the charge
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itself it definitely does a full
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standard Qi charge I plugged it in with
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a quick charge 3 didn't seem to make
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much difference and my quick charge gave
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me that twenty six percent charge on the
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iPhone 10 in an hour
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that's pretty typically how fast Qi
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charging works on the iPhone on the very
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latest generation of Samsung's they can
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pull it a little faster so they can
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charge it a little faster but this is
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not the fastest way in the world to
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charge it's just the most convenient now
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the only other thing I want to say is
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when I see the ads that me pal has for
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this product they show people doing this
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and talking like that and I gotta say
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from a health perspective I'm pretty
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darn sure this is a bad idea you know
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truth be told this isn't a great idea
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and you can do your own google research
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on that but when you add wireless
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charging you've got just that much more
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going on right by your brain that's not
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how I'm gonna use this product so I'm
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gonna definitely just have it sitting on
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a table and
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gonna do this and it's gonna charge now
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the only other thing I want to say is
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that the top is slightly curved and it's
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very slippery because it's such a lovely
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design and they've done so much with it
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but that does mean that if my phone
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vibrates I could easily see it vibrating
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and falling off so that is something you
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want to take into account it obviously
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works through cases maybe there's maybe
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I don't know a couple of little bit of
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rubber strips that you could put on here
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as you desire and that would certainly
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make it stay on a whole lot better but
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not necessary just something that I've
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experienced as I've been using the
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product having said that I really like
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this this is a really great design it's
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very elegant it's very professional this
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is absolutely something I can see
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someone pulling out of their $400
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handbag and charging their you know
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really beautiful expensive smartphone
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while they're at some big power meeting
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in Manhattan or something this is not
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the bottom of the barrel budget solution
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this is a high-end solution for people
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that are willing to pay a little more
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for a really nice elegant solution there
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we go anyway before I go any further and
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tell you the price let me ask you if you
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give me a thumbs up if this is
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beneficial and useful or even just
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entertaining I really appreciate that
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now this me pal power cube 10 charging
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pad and power bank will cost you $75 at
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me POW calm it comes in black as you can
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see and they also have a very nice white
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solution so either way if you do cheat
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charging and you are on the road
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occasionally or even just out at
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meetings or trade shows this is a really
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really interesting solution and I would
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check it out if I were you and with that
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I will catch you
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