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Got an iPhone 12 with MagSafe? Excellent. Now you need a MagSafe Qi wireless charger and a matching 20W wall plug! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Sindox MagSafe Charger and matched Sindox 20W Wall Charger and finds that they're a great pair with lots of smart design features at an entirely affordable price. Heck, the wall charger is so useful with both USB-3.0 and USB-C that it's a must-have even if you don't have a MagSafe device. Turns out the MagSafe Qi charger works with any wireless device too, as demonstrated.
Wanna check 'em on Amazon? Here are the links:
Wall Charger: https://amzn.to/3vtLeF3
MagSafe : https://amzn.to/3ntDD6C
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An incredibly thin Mag widget and a 20 watt wall charger
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Let's check them out. Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at charging again
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With all our devices, it's an endless adventure of trying to keep everything charged and every battery from running out
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Now, the iPhone 12 series has an interesting new technology called MagSafe
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There are magnets in the back of the iPhone 12 line devices that help you actually correctly align and quickly charge your device
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Now, you're thinking, wasn't MagSafe something to do with the old MacBooks so that if you pulled the power plug, you wouldn't have the computer spill onto the ground
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And the answer is, you're right. This is a different MagSafe. So apparently Apple can reuse its trademarks
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All good. Now, what makes this interesting is that it is actually right
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really pretty slick. So here's what I'm looking at. I'm looking at the Cindox MagSafe charger and
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check out how thin that is, right? This is really nice and it has the right magnets so that it
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connects with the iPhone 12. But it does not have its own power. It needs to be plugged into the
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wall with a wall charger. So Cindox also sent me their 20 watt wall charger. This is really sweet
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This tiny little guy puts out 20 watch which means that it
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it can give you power delivery or quick charge 3. So PD3 and QC3, which means it can charge just
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about anything. As you can see in the closeup, it also has USB 3 and USBC. So it's very, very
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flexible. It's literally a 1.1 inch cube. Really like this thing. It's really slick. Now, it works
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with 100 to 240 volts 50 or 60 hertz and it has protection for overheating over voltage over current overcharging and anti Now I haven tried it while you know there was a lightning storm outside
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but that's a lot of protection for a little tiny thing that's not much bigger than a big casino dye, right
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Now, it's really remarkably inexpensive, but we'll get to the price at the end
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So what I did with this is I plugged in this. This, like I said, is the Syndocs MagSafe charger
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and this is 0.16 inches thin and 2.25 inches in diameter. It is a 15 watt fast charger and it has 32 magnets to make sure that when you place it on your phone
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it literally can hold the phone up. That's how strong those magnets are
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That's pretty cool. This also supports both PD power delivery and QC quick charge standards
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And what's interesting is you can see there's a pretty heavy. USBC plug on the other end. But the reason for that is because there's an LED light that gives you a lot of information. It can recognize and alert you if it has
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incorrect objects like foreign bodies they call it. So if you drop a bunch of coins on your charger, it won't try to charge those coins. That's pretty important
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But it also can show you if it's charging when it's fully charged. It will actually stop continuing to charge your device, which is important. So
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Enough talk, let's plug this in. So I'm going to plug in the Syndoc's MagSafe charger
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Look at that. I'm so fantastically thin. To the wall charger. And then I'm going to plug that into my convenient power cord right here
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And you can see here, it's already giving me those bright lights just to show me that
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hey, something's going on. Now, let's put my phone on. And now I have blue and it's charging
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I can see here that the little green battery icon is now half full That a good thing So I thought hmm all right well how fast does this actually charge right And there always a cost to wireless charging It just
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can't transmit as much energy as having it being plugged in. But how much does it cost? And here's the
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answer, is that I can charge my iPhone 44% in an hour. So that's not bad. So, you know
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it's going to take you somewhere between two, two and a half hours to go from zero to fully charged
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But the iPhone, like so many devices, doesn't have an even and consistent power charging system
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So the amount of time it takes to go from 20% to 50% is shorter than the amount of time it takes to go from 90% to 100
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because it's trying to manage the battery life. Now, people get upset about that, but there's actually a positive
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This is something Apple's trying to do to help us out. So here we have our charger
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It's so incredibly thin that honestly it looks like I'm not doing anything
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It doesn't even look like it's plugged in or there's a charger underneath it. So many of these wireless chi chargers are like a half an inch or an inch
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They're just substantial. So having something this slim is pretty nice. But then I thought, hmm, it's just a wireless Chi charger
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So what if I use something that isn't mag safe? I thought, let's grab my handy Google Pixel 5
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And that also has wireless charging, and it's charging right there. So it just says charging wirelessly
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How quickly does that charge? That's a little faster than the iPhone
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The pixel can charge 48% in an hour using the wireless charging system
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So all in all, it's a very simple, elegant design. I like the LED that gives you that feedback
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If I take this off, you'll see that color will turn off
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So it giving you that feedback It does have a nice long wire so you can just tuck this in behind your wall and have this on your bedside table or right by your office monitor whatever it is
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And there's lots to like here. I mean, if you're going to have MagSafe, you might as well have a device that can charge with it, right
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So let's talk about the price. That's really the only thing left. But before we get to the price, give me some feedback
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Give me a thumbs up if you appreciate what I've done and the testing I've done here. Leave a comment. Tell me what you
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what kind of Chi charger you're using. And of course, if you're so inspired or inclined
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subscribe to my channel. It's just a click away. Thank you. All right
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Now, let's talk about prices. Let's start with this. This is the Sindox MagSafe charger
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and it's 2499 minus 10% right now. So it's 2249 at Amazon.com
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and you'll probably want to pair that with a 20 watt charger, and this 20-watt wall charger, and I really like this, with both USB-3 and USB-C, is 1899 minus 10%
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So this is $17.9, which means this setup, all ready to go for your iPhone 12 or any other wireless
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device you have, is under $40, and this is pretty state-of-the-art stuff
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So definitely worth checking out. If nothing else, just go get one of these for
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For $17, this is a no-brainer to have in your computer bag with two. Count them. Two different plugs. So handy. That's all I got. I'm going to go back to charging my phone, which means I'll catch you in my next video
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