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Mophie Apple Watch Dock Review: Expensive, but Elegant
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Mophie Watch Dock and compares it to a low-budget Apple Watch charging stand he bought off eBay for about $8. The result? Have a watch to find out!
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about the Apple watch
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tada the Apple watch but I don't want to
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talk about the watch itself I want to
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talk about charging docks so here's the
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deal mophie sent us the beautiful mophie
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watch doc that is this guy and it's very
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nice it has a premium price tag it is
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$59 and that doesn't include the actual
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watch charging cable which you have to
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buy separately but it has leather on it
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and it's nicely weighted and as you can
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see in this close-up it does a very nice
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job of hiding the cable so it really
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looks very elegant on a desk or perhaps
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on your side table but 59 bucks here let
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me show you I'll put the watch on it and
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it won't actually charge because i don't
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have it plugged in so don't freak out
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about that it's all good but 59 bucks
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that's that's a fair amount of money so
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for testing purposes I went onto eBay
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and for seven dollars and eighty-three
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cents shipping included i bought a
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luxury stand from some miscellaneous
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factory in china that's what this one is
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and quite frankly it's not very well
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designed again i have to buy my own
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charging cable although i think third
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parties will start having apple watch
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charging cable soon for now you have to
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go to apple and here's the thing unless
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i'm going to actually break the cable by
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making a sharp 90 degree angle there's
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really no way that i can get it to fit
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in the little channel that's designed
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for it so on this very low budget
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plastic unit i end up with the cable
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just sticking out the side so
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aesthetically that stinks it's
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definitely not elegant it's just a chunk
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of plastic but on the other hand it's
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under eight dollars and this guy's sixty
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dollars so i guess here's my take on
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this my take on this is that you
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probably spent 400 500 700 a couple of
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thousand dollars on your Apple watch and
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the reality is is it does need to be
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charged probably you need to have more
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than one charging set up one for your
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office one for your bedroom maybe one in
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the
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our I don't know about watch docks for
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the car yet haven't seen those coming up
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watch charging stands that are vehicle
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friendly but you know you're probably
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going to need more than one and the
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mophie is pretty hard to beat it is
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expensive but it's very nicely designed
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it's very elegant I like that it's so
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sleek and that you can easily just have
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it on the edge and you never really even
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see the cable so I would encourage you
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to think about having spent so much
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money on your watch do you really want
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to have the super low budget charging
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dock for your watch and then have to
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suffer through things like damaging
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cables or just having to have its it
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looking rather dorky forever yeah I
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don't know maybe in watch os/2 you can
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actually just have the watch on its side
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right that's the big thing you can have
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it on its side and you can have the
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little charger and then it displays the
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time sideways that's kind of interesting
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but still the dock seem to be a more
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elegant solution so check it out you can
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certainly find the mophie watch dock on
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amazon com or on mophie zone website and
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in terms of this luxury stand if you're
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really looking for something really
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really inexpensive it is really really
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inexpensive go onto eBay and search for
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Apple watch charging stand and you'll be
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surprised at how many factories out in
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the Far East are shipping remarkably
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inexpensive pieces of plastic might work
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for you as for me the watch dock where I
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can actually look at it and I'm going to
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say I'm gonna be using it a lot that's
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going to be the mophie the one that I
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have hidden away that is my emergency i
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have to charge my watch and I just don't
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care what it looks like that's the ebay
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solution so this is dave taylor i'm
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putting my watch back on and i will see
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you in my next video
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