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The Haribol USB-C & Lightning Cables: Your Last Cable Purchase
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May 29, 2025
it's the least exciting facet of consumer electronics, but it seems that regardless of how many cables are included with our gadgets, everyone ends up buying additional charging and data cables. Problem is, they can be surprisingly expensive. Unless they're from Haribol... Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out both the Haribol USB-C 4-cable pack and the Haribol (as Boreguse) Lightning 4-cable pack and finds one of 'em is a slam dunk. The other cables? Well, they're... okay. Check them out: Lightning Cable Set: https://amzn.to/2DYMwAZ USB-C Cable Set: https://amzn.to/2DQNwWS Discount code for Lightning cables: ANDB3DNX Note: this code will expire on Dec 18, 2018
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lots and lots of charging cables but are
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they any good Dave Taylor here and I'm
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looking at what's possibly the most
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unexcited category in the entire
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consumer electronics industry and that
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is charging cables so I got two
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different kinds of charging cables from
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the same company even though they go by
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different names on Amazon so let's start
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with these these are the hairball USB C
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charging cables and as you can see it
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comes with four different cables -
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three-foot cables and two six-foot
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cables now you know the company says
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that they support 2.4 amp fast charging
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480 megabits per second data transfer so
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I thought hmmm well let's see how fast
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they charge so I plugged in our handy 6
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foot into a 2.4 amp charger and plug the
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other end into the samsung galaxy s 8
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and I didn't find that a charge very
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fast if charges at 35% an hour which is
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really just a standard USB C charge so
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the cables the price is really good
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they're reasonably well made there's
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nothing really to write home about in
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terms of their design or anything and as
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you can see they tend to hold their
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shape so they're not more of like a
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braided design or anything we'll get to
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that in a second so these are perfectly
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functional USB 3.0 on one end and USB C
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on the other and of course you get it in
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two different lengths for different
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cables that's a really good deal in
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total it is a kind of crazy good price
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it's $12.99 for four of these cables
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we'll come back to the price and minute
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but where harab all really shines is
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with their Borah goose lightning cables
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so these cables you can see right off
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the bat there's a little bit more design
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involved there's a very different look
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and it is a braided cloth cable and they
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put a ton of effort into the sort of
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joint here they say that it's rated up
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to a hundred thousand bends which is a
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lot and so what I like is
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that I can do crazy things with these
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like tie it in a knot and pull it really
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tight and it still works now when I tell
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you the price you won't even believe how
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inexpensive they are but these are
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really nicely made cables it's kind of
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hard to believe both of these are from
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the same company there's such a
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difference so these are the lightning
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cables you get two 3.3 foot to 6.6 foot
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and you get this really cool let me just
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sort of let these all flow out of the
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box still one in there let's see so you
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get all these different lightning cables
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and what I really like the most is you
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get this neat little cable too and so
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this is actually this little I don't
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know six inch cable and it is something
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where it actually has a little holder so
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you can tie this or clip this to the
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outside of a backpack or something and
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it looks like a nice little piece of
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decoration until you actually need it
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at which point you say hey check this
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out I got a spare lightning cable so
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it's five lightning cables now they also
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support 2.4 amp fast charge so this time
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I thought I'd plug in my iPhone 10 s and
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let it charge for a while so there's
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that and here's what's really impressive
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is using the Qualcomm quick charge
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technology in this I clever charger and
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using the cable even with a knot in it
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it actually charged up my phone 62% in
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an hour that is a fast charge that is
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actually really good now again I really
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like the build quality here's a close-up
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you can see the way they did the ends of
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the connectors it's just really nice and
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the price is kind of out of control
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before I get to that price though let me
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go ahead and ask if you can subscribe to
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my channel and leave me some feedback
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where do you get cables if you go to the
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Apple store and buy Apple branded cables
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or go to like the AT&T or Verizon store
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and buy cables there you were paying a
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lot of money but do the cables last
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forever or do you find that they
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eventually go bad my experiences cables
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don't last very long but these solid
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build and the price of these is crazy so
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let me
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back in review before we get to those
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the hairball USBC 4-pack of cables is
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$12.99 on Amazon but the real winner is
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the Borah goose and I'm just guessing on
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that pronunciation I have no idea to
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pronounce that the Borah goes 4-pack of
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cables with special bonus mini cable 5
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cables its 1398 on Amazon but not all
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that's not all because they actually
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sent me a discount code which you can
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find in the description to this video
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which will give you a substantial
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discount over that but let's just call
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it you know 1398 for one of these cables
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would be a pretty good deal but to get
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four of these now I'm sorry five of
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these for that same price is crazy I
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mean worst case scenario you use this
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for a couple of months and you say yeah
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that's not working whatever and just
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move to the next one it's still a great
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deal but the company actually has a
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lifetime warranty so if you have any
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issues with any of these cables just hit
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them up via email and they tell me that
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they will replace your cable so that is
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a pretty sweet deal this is basically
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your last cable purchase ever so hard to
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not like that so this is Dave Taylor I'm
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gonna get back to charging my iPhone and
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I think I'm also while I'm at it
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it's going to get back to charging my
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samsung and that means that assuming I
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can get everything plugged in correctly
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and I do like chargers that have more
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than one plug so we'll plug everything
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in correctly and voila
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while this charge is away I will catch
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you in my next video
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