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Trapped in Las Vegas even though CES has ended, Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the best of his show swag: the Mophie powerstation plus external charger. Find out what makes it such a sweet little device in its category.
Video quality is low here, I know. Best I could do trapped in my hotel room!
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hi
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dave taylor here again and i'm still in
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las vegas a couple of days after the end
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of the consumer electronics show
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now this is an interesting show because
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of course
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everything that we're going to look at
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everything i'm going to be addressing in
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the next year on the site
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is going to be stuff that showed up this
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week so
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super interesting and lots of cool stuff
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and going as
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press i tend to get a lot of handouts a
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lot of stuff from companies because
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they're of course hoping that i'll
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actually try it out and write about it
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or do a video and of all the stuff i got
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i gotta say the most useful thing was
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from a company called
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mophie and i have it hooked up to my
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phone right now
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so you see it's this little device here
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let me pop the wire
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put my phone down and it's not news
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that lots of companies have these
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battery extenders
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if you have a smartphone you probably
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notice that the
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rated all-day charge really only lasts
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five
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six hours maybe and i got a new iphone 6
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so that's nice
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but the problem is is that by the end of
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the afternoon it's looking pretty
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thirsty
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and so what mophie has here is they have
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this very nice
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little battery charger this is called
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the power station plus
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and this is 3 000 milliamp hours for
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those of you that understand
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what that means so this means this is
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two full charges
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now it's not news to have one of those
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but what makes this really interesting
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is that it's not only small but look
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what they have
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neatly tucked inside can you see that
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it has both a lightning cable and of
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course it's fully certified by apple so
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there's no issues with charging your
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phone
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and it has a usb connector so how do you
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use this
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well now it's ready to charge my phone
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and it's certainly small enough i can
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use it and carry my phone around while
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it's
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drinking its juice and then when i want
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to recharge the mophie unit
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then all i have to do is switch cables
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and plug this into anything with a usb
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connector
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so a handy computer a wall charger
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might even be inside a rental car or
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something so
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super convenient really really light
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3000 milliamp hours is a pretty nice
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capacity
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you can see it's it's like a really
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small deck of cards or something i'm not
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sure what size it is but it certainly
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fits very comfortably in my hand
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so this is the power station plus it
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comes in different
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sizes you can also get it with a micro
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usb
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connector if you'd prefer that instead
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of a lightning connector
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and at amazon and at mophie.com
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runs about 79 bucks and as someone that
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has a lot of expand
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extended batteries i mean literally i
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got four other ones at the show
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and given all of those i think this is
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probably the best one i've ever seen
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this is the keeper because it's
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tiny and it actually has that lightning
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cable
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and trust me on this having an external
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cable that you have to manage to
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is just one too many things now the
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thing that would make this
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really wicked cool would be to have
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little prongs so it would be this size
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and i could plug it directly into a wall
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but
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lacking that capability having the usb
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right there inside this little guy
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makes it an absolute keeper so the
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mophie power station plus
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starting at 79 bucks i would tell you to
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check it out
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but you certainly can't check this one
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out because this is a keeper
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this is dave taylor and someday i'll
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leave las vegas
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and until then i'll catch you in my next
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video
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you
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