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Ever had your iPhone or iPad run out of battery when were far, far away from a power outlet or on the move? Of course you have! We all have. That's why the Mophie Powerstation Plus with built-in Lightning cable is so useful. Its 6000 mAh capacity is enough to charge your phone twice but the unit's still sufficiently slim that you can easily slip it into a pocket.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviewed the Mophie Powerstation Plus and found it a great addition to any road warrior's kit
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a portable battery with built-in
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lightning connector let's check it out
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okay and my phone just died
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now you probably had the same experience
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so Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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this this solves this problem this is
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the Mophie power station plus and Mophie
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has been making external batteries for
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quite a while and I've gone through
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quite a few of them because I have so
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many darn devices this is their latest
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generation and it's actually very nice
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possibly the most important piece is it
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has built in a lightning cable so that
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means when you are ready to use it
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literally all you have to do is plug it
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into your phone or your iPad or anything
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else with a lightning connector and you
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are good to keep going or of course you
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can just leave it on the table at a
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lunch or in your bag and your phone will
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just charge up again super convenient
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now there's a little more to this than
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just having a built-in lightning
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connector and not the least of which is
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that it features a 6,000 milliamp hour
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battery
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well technically 6040 milliamp hours but
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that is double the battery capacity of
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your iPhone this is the iPhone 10 s so
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it has somewhere around a 2900 milliamp
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hour battery somewhere in that ballpark
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so this is more than double that what
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they say is that this will give you 20
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additional hours on an iPhone or 8 more
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hours of using an iPad Mini or if you
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got one of the big iPads it's about five
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more hours of charge that doesn't seem
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like a lot but five hours is still like
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what a quarter of a day so it is super
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light it is six point three ounces also
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known as 180 grams and obviously
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integrated lightning cable the it also
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in addition to the lightning cable this
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is really nice so you can use this but
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it also on the bottom has a regular USB
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plug so you could actually plug in your
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favorite cable of whatever kind even a
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USB see and then you're ready to charge
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so I can do this and assuming I have the
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cable with me too now I can charge my
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phone this way why
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you do this because you can charge two
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devices at the same time genius on their
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part right now here's the funny thing is
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that while we're looking at this
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close-up of the bottom let me tell you
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the other tiny little hole is how you
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charge it and I looked at it and I tried
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a bunch of different cables and I was
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really stymied until I looked at the
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instructions and what it does is it's a
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lightning port so you plug it in and now
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you can actually charge it so this I
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would plug into the wall and it would
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charge and there's actually a little
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indicator light on the side so you can
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see when it's fully charged or perhaps
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just as importantly how much charge is
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left and it also uses what they call
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priority plus charging and this is
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really great so if I have a
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configuration like this where my phone's
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plugged in to the Mophie and then the mo
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fees plugged into the wall then it will
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pass through all the power so the phone
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will charge first when this is fully
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charged then this unit will start
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charging that is exactly the behavior
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you want and this means that instead of
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just plugging your phone in at night you
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just plug both of them in and let it do
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its thing and when you wake up in the
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morning your phone's fully charged and
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your mo fees fully charged and I will
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tell you when I go to trade shows like
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the Consumer Electronics Show where it's
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12 13 14 hours a day something like this
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is an absolute lifesaver
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now what I also really like about this
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one and I've had a lot of mo fees what's
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really nice about this is it actually
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has a fabric cover yes you heard me
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right it's not just metal so this is
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what they call their premium fabric
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finish and this is one is actually slate
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I would call it blue they call it slate
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it also comes in black and heather gray
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so depending on what color you like
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there are a couple of different options
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for you so I'm a big fan
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I like Mophie I like the fact that it's
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smaller than my phone they have these
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big heavy duty ones with like 10,000
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milliamp hours and I'm not looking to
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power my laptop I'm just looking to
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power my phone and the fact that if I'm
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at a lunch or at a meeting and
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someone else can tap into it and they
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can use their cable and charge a little
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bit too that's just a win-win that's a
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great way to make friends at a trade
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show actually but it's all I got to say
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other than do me a favor click subscribe
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appreciate when you do that and I review
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tons of gear so why wouldn't you want to
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the comments but be kind people are so
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mean in the comments it's really it
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makes me okay we're good so this is the
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Mophie power station plus this
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particular one is in Slate blue it's
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very nice built in lightning cable it
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will cost you seventy nine ninety five
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at Mophie calm or you can pick one up at
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the Apple store if you happen to be near
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one now that's a pretty premium price
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for this product but I will tell you if
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you're anywhere and your phone just dies
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boy does it stink so this is a smart
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investment in making sure that your
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phone's always good and these things
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hold their charges forever so if you
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charge it up and then two weeks later
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you're in a situation where you really
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need to give your phone or your tablet a
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little boost it'll still be charged so
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big fan here really glad definitely
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ready to use this in my bag and on my
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trips which means I will catch you in my
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next
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