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Scosche MagicMount Base Pro 3-in-1 MagSafe Wireless Charging Stand - DEMO & REVIEW
Jun 22, 2024
Imagine a 3-in-1 MagSafe charger that can keep your Apple Watch, iPhone and AirPods fully charged and has an integration 5000mAh power bank you can grab on your way out for the day too. That's exactly what the Scosche MagicMount Base Pro 3-in-1 MagSafe Wireless Charging Stand is all about. Tech expert Dave Taylor explores its many cool features - including a sweet built-in LED nightlight - but also highlights a few design quirks that you'll want to know about before you make a purchase decision!
Check it out at: https://www.scosche.com/msqspbwt-3-in-1-magnetic-wireless-charging-stand-with-removable-power-bank
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A three-and-one charging stand with a portable component
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This is the Scosh Magic Mount Base Pro MagSafe charging stand. And as you can see, it's a three-in-one charger, phone, watch, and AirPods or another device that's also MagSafe
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But there's a couple of critical things for us to note at the beginning. First off, the base charger is also a 5,000 mill-amp hour power bank
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How cool is that? It's a mag-safe power bank, so anything that charges wirelessly, like an iPhone, can charge off of this
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No cables needed. Really, really want a cable? Well, on the front, there's USBC
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So you can plug in a cable, and you can use this to charge whatever the heck you want
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5,000 milliamp hours is more battery than my phone. So it's plenty of juice. What I really like is that it lives on the base of this charger, so it's always charged
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You don't ever have to worry about picking up your charge bank and saying, oh, you know what
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I realize it doesn't have any charge. I have a lot of power banks, and most of them just sit empty because I don't think 24 hours in advance, I better charge that
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This is always charged. Now, the other really important thing to know is that while it includes an Apple Watch charger
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it doesn't include the Apple Watch charging cable. So this is a really important thing to know is that the cable, it's a B-Y-O-C
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Bring your own cable. Now, if you want to get a cable from Apple, I'm just going to make this a little neat here
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If you want to get the Apple cable, it's kind of spendy at 30. But there are third party Apple Watch charging cables that are as low as $8
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So that's actually a good thing. And then what you end up with is you can just use it just like this
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So now it the phone plus the additional MagSafe And then let just jump on to the back for a second There are two ports in the back One is for its own power supply
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We'll get back to that in the second. And the other one is a USBC charging port
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So the idea is that if you want to use the Apple Watch charger side
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it does come with this plastic piece. So you just simply basically loop your cable into it
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It's easy enough. I'll actually do it while I'm talking. So there's the charging pad and then it slips on the end here
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And then in the back of the bar, you can see in this close-up
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there's a little channel that you can run the cable to have it be somewhat neat
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And then you just charge or plug the other end into that USBC charger
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So now I'm all set up and I'm ready to go. And I do need to show you that the charger itself
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I'm going to take points off for. Scotch number one this is pretty big I don't care so much about that but what I do
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care about is it has a custom charging plug it's not using something like
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USB C now I know they're doing that because they're giving it a lot of wattage
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but if you don't have this then this is not functional and I'm getting a little
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tired of having dozens of these all over my house and all over my office so on
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the other hand you plug it in you're good to go now did you notice what happened when
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plugged it in. See that light underneath? It's a little hard to tell in the studio here because it's so
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bright studio kitchen. But watch this. The metal bar is the on-off switch for this very slick
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integrated LED night light. So now imagine you have this by your bedside table and it's dark and
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you need to double check something. So you just tap it and it gives you that just nice
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gentle glow and tap it again it turns off and then again so these are AirPods
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Pro so they charge wirelessly that ding means it's charging and my Apple Watch
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I let that charge and then this I can adjust so I can also do it in either orientation and this is MagSafe which is great If you don have a MagSafe phone like a modern Android phone that does charge
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wirelessly, you have two options. One option would be to use this and charge on the lower
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portion, but the cool option is they include something called the Magic Ring Android
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adapter. And that's what this is. So this has an adhesive on one side
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side and you basically put it on the back of your Android phone and then you can use this charger
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So they include this ring and a cleaning pad and much more interestingly, this little
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spacer so you can get the positioning to be optimal. I will say this is an interim problem because
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Chi 2, the new standard includes that magnetic positioning. That will also be showing up on Android
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phones. So Apple phones have MagSafe. Android phones will have the equivalent with Chi 2. So when that
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happens, this will suddenly become even more useful. But that's pretty much everything I can show you
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I really like it. What I really love is I love this whole idea of this being a portable power bank
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It's so helpful. This is 5,000 mill-amp hours. So it's plenty of juice. The charger, let's see, this charger
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Let me just sort of take my phone off for a second. This is a 10 watt wireless charger
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The USBC port in the back is a 15 watt charger. And the Apple watch, the USBC, 15 watts is plenty of power for this
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I believe that puts out about 5 watts to the watch. And I'm expecting Apple will keep incrementing that so your watch will charge faster
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But a lot of us actually charge our Apple watches overnight. I don't like watching or wearing watch
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when I sleep. So I just give up on the sleep tracking. I charge it overnight. I would rather it charge
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more slowly and had a longer battery life. So we'll see how that balances out. But all of this
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and because it mag safe that means I can do that And my phone is charging with no wires It magic right It just magic So really lots to like here It a really smart design
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I really appreciate that has that nightlight and everything. It's flexible, easy to work with
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If I don't have these on here, I can fold it down. So I could slip it under my monitor and pull it out when I need it, for example
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And let's put these things back. And not much else I can tell you about it
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I think that they've done a really nice job. I was a little surprised that it doesn't have an integrated Apple Watch charger
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but I need to bring my own cable. But like I said, that's a fairly inexpensive solution
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And you probably already have a cable and it's probably just laying on your desk. So this certainly makes it a little bit neater
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And that's what I got. If you're someone who needs to charge multiple things simultaneously
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then this is a really solid option to check out. And of course, that portable piece
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makes it just a head and shoulders above all the other competitors in this segment
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So, we should talk about the price. Before we get there, I'm going to ask you to subscribe to my channel
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This is the Scosh Magic Mount Base Pro MagSafe Charging Stand. It is a fairly spendy, 149
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99 at scosh.com. But hang on. If you sign up for the scosh email newsletter, they'll send you a code that will save you 15% on your first purchase. So if you do that, you can get this down to 12749. And it is a really nice, elegant solution and has a built-in nightlight. How cool is that? That's all I got. I got to let all my devices to charge. I will hope to see you in my next video
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