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The Anker PowerWave 7.5 Pad & Stand Qi Chargers - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
Got a smartphone with Qi charging? Excellent! But are you getting the fastest, best charge possible? Probably not, because QuickCharge 3.0 only just showed up. One of the first companies out the door with a QC3.0 Qi charger is Anker, with its PowerWave 7.5 Pad and PowerWave 7.5 Stand. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews both units against the Apple iPhone X, highlighting the 50% faster charge than a traditional Qi charger. But there's a problem with the Anker chargers too, as detailed... Learn more: https://www.anker.com/
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are these the perfect chi chargers let's
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give them a closer look Dave Taylor here
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and this time I'm looking at chi
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chargers specifically I'm looking at
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these these are the higher powered quick
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charge 3.0 Cheetara the flat one this
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little frisbee this is the power wave
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7.5 pad and then the one with the
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60-degree angle stand is you guessed it
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the power wave 7.5 stand and they are
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incredibly well designed Qi charging
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units now I have an iPhone 10 and I was
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really excited about wireless charging
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but by default a wireless charging
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system feeds 5 watts to the device and
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that's not much it charged really slow
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maybe you'd get a 20% charge in an hour
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but it was not something that was gonna
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have it where you put it on a boom
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you're fully charged not how they work
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but with quick charge 3.0 turns out that
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it actually goes way faster in fact it
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gets 50% more wattage so these units
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give 5 watts of Qi charging to an
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unrecognised device but you put on an
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iPhone 8 or 8 plus or 10 or whatever
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comes down the road in the future and
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they'll get 7.5 watts now it's important
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you need to have iOS 11.2 or newer so if
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you're running still an older version
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you'll have to upgrade to be able to get
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that benefit but that 7.5 Watts gives
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you a 40% charge in an hour that's
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pretty nice that means that you can put
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this on your charging station and go
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grab lunch come back and honestly your
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phone's almost fully charged again so
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that's pretty cool assuming you have a
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fairly long lunch now if you put a
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Samsung device on this Samsung works
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even better with quick charge and what
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actually gets 10 watts so then the
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Samsung device like a galaxy s 9 will
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charge even faster with one of these but
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I'm excited mostly because it's for the
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first device I'm aware of that gives me
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the faster
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with my iphone 10 now they've done a
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really nice job with engineering - let's
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just look at the pad as you can see it's
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not the thinnest pad in the world
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because it has a built-in fan to keep
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both the charging unit and the phone
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cool while it's charging it also has an
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anti slip surface which is really nice
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because one of the problems a lot of
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these flat chargers have is you put your
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phone on there you have to find the
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sweet spot and then you get a call or
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something vibrates your phone and it
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moves a little bit and now it's not
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charging so if you read reviews of qi
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chargers you'll see a lot of people
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complain about the fact that the charger
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doesn't keep it in place now this is
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where the stand is obviously really nice
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so if I put this on the stand now it's
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not only charging as you can see but at
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that 60 degree angle it's the perfect
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angle so that if it's facing me it
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unlocks with face recognition so my
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iPhone 10 is now unlocked without me
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having to do anything further they did
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another thing really nice is that they
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actually have two charging sensors so it
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will also charge sideways so if I want
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to watch Netflix while I'm pretending to
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work or stream live soccer which is
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typically what I would do then I can do
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that and charge on the stands and the
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stand itself this is again the anchor
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power wave 7.5 stand this is also pretty
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big so you can see the base unit is
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pretty large because it has a fan so
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there's vents on the back to get the fan
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to keep the whole unit cool so that your
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phone doesn't overheat and the charger
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doesn't overheat I'm going to go ahead
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and let that keep charging now the
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biggest downside with this unit is that
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it has to use the charger that came with
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it this is a quick charge 3.0 which only
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has one USB plug I wish they would have
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put two and it has this nice heavy duty
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micro USB cable that is too darn short
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so let's just look at this if I put it
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like that you can see that's not very
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long and to put this in context if I
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simply hold this end and drop it down
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it is not long enough to touch the floor
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which means if I have a power outlet on
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the floor
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I can't plug it in use this and then
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have an
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enough spare on the cable to have the
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pad or stand where I want it to be that
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is a little bit of a known annoyance to
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put it mildly and that's the biggest
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complaint people have with this charger
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the fact that it's a fast charge for an
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iPhone fantastic the fact that it's an
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even faster charge for a samsung is
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great in fact let me tell you numbers so
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by default G charging is of five watts
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it's pretty slow maybe you get 10% an
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hour on charge on an iPhone that doesn't
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get you very far but with the new quick
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charge 3.0 and at least iOS 11.2 you get
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7.5 watts
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hence the 7.5 name and that 7.5 watts is
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a 50% faster charge that means I get a
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40% charge in an hour and that's really
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sweet and then 10 watts finally is the
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charge you get for a Samsung device so
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galaxy s 9 or something's going to
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charge really fast and that's a great
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thing
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so I like everything about it I'll even
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forgive them for having a single plug
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USB for the quick charge 3.0 but Ankur
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you guys need longer cables this cable
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just is too darn short and yes I can use
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a different cable but since this is a
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heavy-duty cable I fear that if I use a
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longer cable that's not the same quality
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then this will Auto sense it and
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actually drop my wattage down and
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there's no easy way to test so it would
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just be great to have maybe a I don't
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know 3 foot 6 foot 7 foot cable
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something longer as part of the
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packaging but be that as it may really
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nice design now the anchor set power
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wave 75 pad this one has a small sensor
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light that lets you know when you have
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your phone in the right place and this
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does exactly the same thing at the base
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of the stand all this left to talk about
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is price but before we get there go
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ahead and do me a favor and click on
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that subscribe link please and if this
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is a useful video give me a thumbs up
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should appreciate that cool ok now power
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wave 7.5 pad from Anchor Qi charging
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device will cost you 40 $5.99 at anchor
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comm so it's a little more
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pensive than most cheat chargers but
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seriously it's a fast charger that's
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totally worth it
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so $45.99 at anchor calm and then the
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power wave 7.5 stand will run you $49.99
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at anchor calm and I am absolutely a fan
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I really like Qi charging anyway and I
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particularly like that it works 50%
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faster that is an absolute win for my
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iPhone 10 I'm gonna go back to charging
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and I will catch you
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