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It's one of the most affordable Qi wireless charging stands you can buy, but is the NANAMI Fast Wireless Charging Stand actually able to operate as a Qi fast charger? Tech expert Dave Taylor tests it out with multiple phones, multiple chargers, and rather surprising results...
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It's a super affordable Qi charging station, but is it a fast charger
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm talking about charging, as usual
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We constantly are talking about charging because all our devices need to be charged
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Now, one thing that modern devices have is they have something called Qi wireless charging
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which is never as fast as plugging in, but it can be super convenient, and it can be
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reasonably fast because there's a newer generation of what they refer to as fast charging
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Now, I picked up this. This is the Nanami fast wireless charger stand, and you can see it's a very nice design
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They say it's inspired by wind sails and such. I'm not sure about that, but USB-C plug on the back
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Comes with a USB-C to USB-A cable, but it doesn't come with the actual device you'd
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need to plug into. You could plug it into your computer, but generally it's going to be one of these bring
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your own charger sort of devices, but it is convenient. It does have dual coils, so it can charge in both a standing orientation or a sideways orientation
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The question really becomes, is it actually fast charging? This is Qi certified
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Like I said, has USB-C on the back, and it is compatible with iPhones and Samsung and
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Google Pixels and such. One of the things I do like about it is that it has a nice LED status light, so I'm going
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to plug this in, and I'm plugging this into a 67 watt charger
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Now it's never going to give 67 watts on a USB-A port, but it can go up to 30 watts
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so that is more than fast wireless charging needs. So theoretically, this should be able to do the fastest possible wireless charge, but
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you can see on the bottom here that there's that blue light
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Now if I put the phone on here, then what will happen is it will actually flash for
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a moment, and then it will turn green, and it being green shows that it's actually doing
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a wireless charge. That's all there is to it. It's super easy
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Now on the Pixel lineup, it shows on the bottom the status of the charge, and in this close
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up you can see that it just says charging wirelessly. Not only that, but you can see it's got a long time to go just to get that extra 15
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of charge that it needs. Now modern devices don't charge up to 100% as fast as they go from say 20% to 50%, and
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that's to do with battery management and lifetime expansion, but be that as it may, when it
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just says charging wirelessly, it's not saying fast charging or charging high speed or anything
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like that. That means that this is detecting that it's just giving it, I think this is 10 watts that
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it's giving the Pixel, and that this, my iPhone, will end up being at 7.5 watts, and those
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are slow charges. So initially, I was going to actually give you the time of the zero to 100%, but it charges
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so darn slowly that it's basically like an overnight project. So in many situations, that's perfectly fine
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You can see, by the way, I turned it sideways and it's still charging because of those dual
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coils on the back here. So it does have systems in place for overcharging and over temperature control, so it's not
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going to damage your device. If you put something metal on here but it doesn't have Qi charging, then this will go
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from solid blue to a flashing blue. I tried charging one of my phones that didn't have wireless charging, and it just had a
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slow blue flash, and I'm like, hmm, I think there's an issue here
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And the issue was, the phone wasn't compatible. But with a compatible phone, if nothing else, if you have this right by your desktop computer
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for example, then you can have your phone sitting here, and to me, a lot of this is
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the stand more than it is the charging. Because even in the best of cases, Qi wireless charging isn't super fast
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This can be convenient to have your phone be showing you notifications, or you could
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watch a show on it or something. And it's not lowering the charge, it's gaining charge, but at a fairly small speed
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So the company calls this the Fast Wireless Charger Stand, and I gotta say, I think they
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should take the word fast out of it. Because I've tried different cables, I've tried different chargers, I've tried a lot
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of different combinations, and I could never get it to be more than a slow Gen 1 Qi wireless charger
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Now, to be fair, it is super inexpensive. And in fact, the reason I got it was because it was the cheapest of all Qi wireless charging stands
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Because I have situations where I want to just show that it will actually, for example
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your phone can charge through a specific case. And so here's an example of that, where my iPhone 14 Pro is just sitting here and it's
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working fine. It's charging. Is it charging fast? No. But that's just part of the game here
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That's just part of the situation. So what I do want to do is I want to tell you about the price and the colors
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But before, let me give you just one more showing here of its design
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And it really is a very attractive design. I would have been perfectly happy to pay even $15 more to get it to be a true fast
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wireless charger that could handle more wattage going out. But maybe that's its next gen product
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So what we should do is we should talk about... Let's see. I'll put the iPhone back on, I guess
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We should talk about the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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So excellent. Now, I'll take the phone off. And this is the Nanami Fast, maybe, Wireless Charger Stand
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It comes in this black or white or silver, and the black is the least expensive
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It is $18.99 with a 6% coupon right now, dropping it down to $17.85
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On Black Friday, I picked this unit up for $15. That's why I was saying, you know..
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So that... Sorry. $18.99 minus 6%, $17.85 at Amazon.com. That is going to be your lowest priced Qi wireless charging stand
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And if you just think of it as basically just a stand, and then it has the added benefit
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of a slow background charge, then you'll be perfectly set and you'll love this thing
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So there's a lot to like about it as just a simple way to prop your phone up
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Because if you've had your phone sitting like this on your desk, absolute game changer to
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have it like this. So that's the pros, that's the cons, that's the reality
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It's not a fast charger. I have plenty of devices to be able to demonstrate that
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But suffice to say, it's also only $17. So that might still be something worth adding to your desktop or your home office or your
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setup right by your bed. And I will note that if you do want this bedside, you might put a piece of tape over that status
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light because it's pretty bright. And if you're in a pitch dark room, that's going to be light enough that it's going to
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illuminate the walls around you. I'm not kidding. It's a bright light
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And there is no way that I can see to disable that or to have that go way into a dim mode
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Again, that might be a nice engineering add on, but that would add price to the, you know
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add cost to the unit. So there are your trade offs. I'm going to let this charge
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We're not in any rush. I will hope to catch you in my next video
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