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Sick of running out of power with your devices? Want to be able to charge multiple devices without having to worry about your powerstation for a few days? The solution you seek is the Mophie Powerstation XL 20,000 mAh external battery with USB-C and 2 * USB-A and a max of 20W charging. Tech expert Dave Taylor runs it through its paces and finds that it loves the Google Pixel phone, offering a lightning fast charge!
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You'll never run out of power with this power station
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I have a lot of devices
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I probably have more devices than you do. But whether you just have a phone
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or you have an array of different gadgets that you like to carry around with you, it's inevitable
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At some point, you're going to feel like, mmm, running out of power
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I need to figure out how to charge it. Now, wall outlets and chargers aren't always convenient
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So there's a whole ecosystem of third-party external batteries, typically called power stations
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And some of the best and most flexible of those are built by a company called Mophie
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So that's what I'm looking at today. This is the Mophie Power Station XL 20-Watt USB-C
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charging device. And right off the bat, you can see on the end
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here that it has a USB-C in the middle, and then two USB plugs on the sides
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What this means is it doesn't have any built-in cables or wires
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So you're going to have to bring your own wires. Now, most of us have those in our bags, or backpacks
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or briefcases, or purses anyway. So not a huge big deal. But important to know, this is basically
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just a really big battery. And in terms of functionality, there's really
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not much else on the device. There's one button, because on this side, there is a four LED
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You can push a button, and it'll show you how much charge remains
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And this one's still pretty much fully charged, with four dots being shown
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And then, of course, the big question is, how big is this? What's its capacity
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And you can see it's thick. And it's thick because it's a 20,000 milliamp-hour battery
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And that is a lot. By comparison, this iPhone has about a 3,000 3,500 milliamp-hour battery
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So you can imagine, by comparison, this is like having five iPhone batteries in my pocket
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Now, it is big. It is hefty. But when I'm actually at a trade show
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or I'm at school, or whatever, and I just need a charge, and I don't want to fuss with having
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to sit next to an outlet for half an hour or something, this is such a great solution
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Now, what makes this particularly cool is that the center USB uses what's known as power delivery
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It's a protocol where this device can talk to the other device
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And they can figure out the fastest maximum possible charging. So this can go up to 20 watts
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And when I plug it into my Google Pixel 6 Pro, it actually will say, as you can see here, charging rapidly
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And that's great, because it means it's getting the maximum possible power from here
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In fact, my Pixel 6 Pro will charge 48% in an hour just off
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of this device, which is really fantastic, because so many of these external batteries
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are slow chargers. Now, interestingly, the Apple iPhone is much more picky about its power
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And it doesn't work with power delivery in the same way. So when I plug my phone, my iPhone, into this thing
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I only got a 27% charge in an hour. But the iPhone's also rather infamous
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for charging at different speeds based on how much you do or don't have already in the battery
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In other words, if you're at 10%, it'll charge faster to 50% than if you're at 80
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and it wants to charge to 100%. So there's different times. But suffice to say, the Pixel charges basically twice as fast
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as the iPhone does in my tests. Now, your mileage may vary, but it's really pretty simple
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So plug in something to USB-C. So for example, let's try my Apple Watch
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So I'll plug in the USB-C. It's ready to roll. And we'll put the Apple Watch on its charger
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And there you go. Now you can see my Apple Watch is charging away and ready
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to get the rest of its charge. So it's at 100%, super easy to work with
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But all right, while I'm doing that, let me do some more charging. So have a USB-A to Lightning connector
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So I'm going to plug that in on one side. Let's put that here
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And then what I'm going to do on the other side, let's get this off to the side a little bit
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On the other side, let's see what else we can do. We can do a USB-A to USB-C
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And again, you need to have your collection of cables for this to work optimally
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But I'm going to plug that into the Pixel phone. And then I'm going to plug my Lightning cord
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into a pair of Apple AirPods. And then we're just going to let everything go
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And the light here, and the display on here, and my watch, everything's still charging
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Now, there's not an infinite amount of power coming out of this thing
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So when I add all these other devices, then now they're sharing 15 watts across all three ports
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So that means my Apple Watch charge went down. So if I unplug the other things
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then the watch will charge faster. But I'm charging three devices simultaneously
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with something I can put in my pocket. And that's pretty sweet
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So one of the other things I'm going to give Mophie, which is actually a division of Zag
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but I'm going to give them a lot of credit for, is that number one, their packaging is 100% recycling
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or sorry, recyclable. And the unit itself, the battery is not particularly recyclable
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but the packaging, the exterior plastic of this is 50% post-consumer plastic
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And that's important. We go through a lot of stuff, and we don't really need to fill our landfills
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So I appreciate the company putting in the effort to be a little bit more green
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So not much else I can tell you. Everything's charging away, but let me unplug everything anyway
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And so, you know, this is it. It is, from a physical appearance
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it looks like maybe a very small version of what you might find in 2001, a space odyssey
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We can put it here and have tiny little, like chimpanzees or apes or something
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cavorting about the bottom. But honestly, it's small enough that you can put this in your pocket
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You can certainly carry this around with you, but it is a pound in weight
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There's a lot of battery inside. And dimensions wise, it's six inches by 2.75 inches
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by 1.25 inches thick. Mophie makes a ton of these different power stations
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with different sizes and capacities. But the real key on this one
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is both that it has an enormous capacity at 20,000 milliamp hours
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but it also has that PD or power delivery USB-C that can go up to 20 watts
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which again means that, like with my Google Pixel 6 Pro, it was doing a rapid charge
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which is just music to your ears, or I don't know, music to your eyes
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when you see that show up on your screen. So that's everything
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All we need to do is we need to talk about price. And before we get there
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Also really appreciate that. Thank you. Cool. This is the Mophie Power Station XL
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20-watt USB-C power station, and it is 59.95 at zag.com. It is hefty, but it has a ridiculous amount of juice
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And this is so powerful and has so much energy and so much charge inside it
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you can be charging all your friends' phones at the same time, and that's a big win
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You're gonna make some good friends that way. That's all I got. I'm gonna get back to getting everything charged up again
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So we'll hope to catch you in my next video. ♪♪��
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