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If you use a portable charger, you've become accustomed to always having to compromise. Either it doesn't have much capacity or it needs a charger of its own or you have to carry your own cables for your devices. No more! The new Scout Max charging unit from intelliARMOR offers the best of all worlds in a sleek, slim package: 10,000 mAh capacity, wall prongs for direct charging and built-in MicroUSB, Lightning and USB-C cables for charging.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got his hands on a Scout Max and found it to be well made, powerful and super flexible. In short, a winner. His review explains all the features that make it exceptional...
Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scout-your-zero-compromise-all-in-one-charger#/
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Is this the best portable charger on the market? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this. This sleek little device is the IntelliArmor Scout
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Charger. This one is called the Scout Max. They also have a wireless one. I'll talk about the
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wireless in a second but I want to focus on this right now. This is pretty sweet. Now, first thing
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you notice is it's pretty big but if we compare it to our handy iPhone XS you'll see it's only
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just a little bit bigger than the phone itself but it's totally worth it because this has 10,000
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milliamp hour battery so that is a lot of capacity. You can charge your phone a number of times and
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now you look at this and you're like hmm how exactly would you charge your phone and the
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answer is that it actually has built-in cables. So check this out. So we have three, count them
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three different types of cable connectors built in. This is lightning. This one is micro USB
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and the one on top is USB-C. All three of these are here and they all work. Now that's not enough
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Well you have another micro USB and another USB 3.0 on the bottom. Now generally these are used
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for charging for input charging but here's the thing you don't really need to do that. Actually
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the USB 3.0 is an out charger so bring your own cable or two lightning cables if you need to
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charge two iPhones for example. The micro USB is kind of a backup charging plug but did you notice
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this at the very beginning? It has prongs for a wall socket. So one of the other things that's
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really fantastic about this is you can just plug it into the wall and it will charge up. Not only
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that but if you happen to be doing something like this and charging a device, you can see my device
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is charging, if I happen to be doing this and I plug it into a wall socket it will do the right
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thing. It will charge the device and then it will charge itself. So plug everything you need into
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this device at the beginning of your night and when you wake up in the morning everything will
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be charged including this. Now let's go ahead and tuck these cables back in and let's see what else
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I can tell you about it. So one of the things I like is like I said the prongs actually flip in
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or out and then there's actually a four LED status light that shows you how much charge it has. This
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is fully charged because it's super easy to just leave this plugged into the wall until it's fully
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charged. And then generally speaking you don't have that display. It's only because I was just
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charging with it. So there's a button underneath that you push the button and then the little
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lights come on. So that's pretty easy. Now what else can I tell you is this actually has each of
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the wires is pushing out 2.1 amps, 5 volts and the USB 3 port on the bottom does the same. So that's
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four possible connections to charge. Very nice. In terms of what you can plug it into it can work
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with anything from 110 to 240 volts at 50 or 60 hertz. So pretty much wherever you are in the
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world odds are pretty good. You can plug this thing in or like I said you can charge it via
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the micro USB port on the bottom. So that makes it easy. Now the complicated thing here, the only
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complicated thing is the pricing. But before we get there I want to tell you that they have another
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unit, same form factor, only 5,000 milliamp hour battery because it actually adds wireless Qi
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charging. This is not that unit. The Scout Wireless is the one with Qi charging. This is the Scout Max
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with 10,000 milliamp hours battery. Now before I get into their Indiegogo campaign and how they've
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done the pricing let me ask if you can go ahead and click on that subscribe button. I really
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appreciate when you subscribe to my channel and give me some feedback. When you're out and about
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and your phone is starting to die what do you do about it? So do you have a spare battery? Do you
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find a charger? Or do you just freak out and say ah my phone's dying? Hopefully that's not what you
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do because that doesn't actually start and help anything. Come on. So okay back to this. The
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Intela Arma Scout Charger Scout Max. That's this guy with all the cables built in and everything
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This, let's see, I'm going to try to get this all right. They're on Indiegogo. Actually I think the
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campaign launched the same day I put this video up. Here we go all three cables. All right so
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Super Early Bird pricing on this is $19.99. That is a wicked good deal. The regular retail price
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for this is going to be $79. So Super Early Bird is $19.99. Early Bird is $24.99. The Indiegogo
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Special price will be $29.99 if you miss out on the Early Bird. And finally you have a combo pack
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You can get one of these and one of the wireless units and those will run you $39 via Indiegogo
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or $158 as their, at this point, manufacturer suggested retail price. Now whether that'll
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be their final price we'll have to see. Oh and one more thing I did want to mention. I sort of
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showed you the size versus my iPhone XS but let me just give you the dimensions. So it's 6.2 inches
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by 3 inches by 0.65 or just over half an inch thick. It is also just three ounces so they've
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done a lot of engineering. They've done a really nice job and it's surprisingly light for this much
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battery capacity. Obviously they've spread the battery out so it is tall versus being thick but
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that's a pretty good trade-off and all these built-in cables make this a no-brainer regardless
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of what kind of device you have. So I say check it out on Indiegogo. Just search for the word
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Scout and hopefully you'll find this. And this is Dave Taylor. I'm getting back to... hang on let me
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put this in... and I'm getting back to charging my iPhone XS. There you go it's charging
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which means I'll catch you in my next video
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