I Spent Over $1000 On Multi-Device Chargers for the iPhone 12. Which Wireless Charger Was Fastest? By MobileReviewsEh

So, what's the best charger between the MagSafe duo, Sophie three-in-one wireless charging pad a random Amazon brand, the anger three-in-one stand the welkin three-in-one boost charge, the Jataka air OFNI, light nomad base station and the base station pro the Logitech powered and the scotch base links damn. That is a lot of chargers. How much money do we spend hold on I'm on it? We spent like fourteen hundred dollars so much money so based on our four criteria, which includes charge, speed, solo charging as well as charge, consistency and the overall function and design the top three products. There's a bunch of ties include this product, this product, this product, uh apple patch product, and this one. So for the rest of this video we're going to dig into the details and then give you our recommendations, I'm also going to rant Darren my brand Monty roll, the review. Now, when it comes to the design of each charge pad, they generally look the same, there's a place for your watch space for your AirPods and a place for your device or devices when it comes down to it val and I based our design functionality scores on the number of ports each product had the materials used, the number of devices you could charge at any given time and other special features and special annoyances.

When it comes to these multi-device chargers, basically the more things you can charge at once, the better it's going to score now, the best product from a design and functionality perspective only is the Scotch bass links. It can charge a pile of devices at once and is modular, so you can scale up and down your charging needs. Smart. The runner-up in terms of functionality and design is the Jataka air OFNI light like the base links, there's a ton of space for you to charge whatever device you want. The most notable feature is the ability to travel with this product because everything folds down neatly so nothing kind of juts out and gets in the way.

Now you do have to provide your own Apple Watch charger, which is silly, but Jataka makes up for that shortcoming by having the charger area slowly pop up by a press of a button. Also, there's a small compartment for your valuables or gummy bears now. If you need a charging solution for yourself and not an army, the nomad base station, not the pro just the normal base station, is going to be your best bet, it'll charge your iPhone watch, AirPods and another iPhone in an awkward manner and two other accessories that you want to plug in almost as much functionality, but in a much smaller form factor. Now, if you need another alternative to the nomad base station do check out the Logitech power, and I am very impressed with this product I really like where they place the Apple Watch charger. Your straps will never get in the way if you're charging with the Logitech power, which is something I can't say for some of these other products now the worst design product is this Amazon branded KVM ppm, whatever product the charge pad is clumsy, and it doesn't charge your AirPods wirelessly.

So one of the things I forgot to mention with this Logitech powered is that if you own the tiny, tiny iPhone 12 mini, it's actually too short to charge it. So you kind of have to put a spacer like I'm, showing you in this clip, or you can put it down here. It'll charge, there's another pad there, but that's kind of a fatal flaw for this Logitech powered now. The other thing I kind of realized was that as much as I love where the Apple Watch strap is I kind of default to loops, and so this is a leather loop. This one's not much of a problem because it'll flick up, but that looks awesome.

But if you use something like this sport, loop you'll actually have the watch, strap kind of drag on the ground or the table that you've set it on. So that might be annoying for some people, but I figure I just point that out now before we talk about all the charging tests, I do want to point out, apart from the apple product, all other chargers, except for the nomad base station pro uses the standard QI charging setup. The base station pro uses era, free power technology with builds on QI charging by allowing you to charge technically anywhere on that era, charge pad now most products in this video have one coil per charge pad, whereas the nomad base station pro has 18, which means that your iPhone or any device will charge in any orientation which is pretty cool from a perspective. Arrow's approach of charge anywhere is the exact opposite of what apple did with the MagSafe, which is to ensure a strong connection with the charge pad through the iPhone. Somebody on Instagram told me that I should review this, so I went and bought it and was pretty excited to see this thing in action.

This thing cost me 200, hey Monty. Are we happy that we spent 200 on this product? What do you think? I think that's a no guys anyways on to full sent charging now full cent charging for this. Video basically means dumping as many dead devices on each charging unit and measuring how quickly one of these devices charges for each product. We measured the time it took an iPhone mini to go from 10 to 50, with the Wi-Fi on and the screen turned all the way up. Once we got our data, we drain all the devices as good as we could.

We leave the AirPods out to drain the Apple Watch by turning on a workout and flashlight and just leaving it there and draining the iPhone mini by recording 4k video with the torch on it or any other iPhone in that manner. We did this several times for each product and averaged out the results. The fastest chargers in this group included the apple max safe duo, which came on the first followed by the Logitech powered and the nomad base station. Now don't get too excited about the MagSafe duo, because charging the iPhone by itself using a normal massive charger, was almost twice as fast to charge. The iPhone 12 mini from 10 to 50 on the MagSafe duo took a little over an hour using the normal mag sleep charger.

It only takes 30 minutes and with a wired connection with a 20 watt charger. It only takes 18. If you're looking to charge more than just your device and watch well. This top three list will include that no name Amazon charger, which is kind of surprising but kind of not the slowest charger in this grouping, was the nomad base station pro. None of the tests resulted in my iPhone 12, meaning being charged from 10 to 50.

I think one test got the iPhone to 48 before it stopped charging one of the tests. I did. Furthermore, I left it on for 12 plus hours and the base station pro still didn't get any device to 100. Now the next worst product. In terms of just full cent charging is the welkin three in one boost charge, it also performed incredibly poorly, and it's crazy.

The apple still buys stuff from welkin, given that this product took almost three hours to charge, an Apple Watch, an iPhone mini and the AirPods, which is crazy. Now one of the things we wanted to see was if the number of devices connecting to a charging pad would affect the charge speeds. Every charger has a maximum wattage, so it can only provide so much power to a bunch of different devices. For example, an iPhone with QI charging consumes at most 7.5 watts of power. The Apple Watch and AirPods both consume five watts so to technically charge all of all those devices at the fastest possible speed.

You would need at least 17 and a half watts. Now on paper. There wasn't any product where the wattage did not match the supposed number of devices that you could charge with that product, but because we're reviewers we had to see if what's on, paper matches real life, we did the same charge test as the full sign charging, but with just the iPhone mini by itself, and how did the speeds compare now? I was a bit disappointed with that outcome, because I thought most companies would have figured out a way to keep charge rates constant, regardless of how many devices were attached to it. If the output from the power supply has enough wattage to charge the devices shouldn't the speeds be consistent. Apparently I ask way too much from my attack from our solo charging test.

The fastest was the MagSafe duo at 40 minutes. The nomad base station came in at 47 minutes and the Logitech power at 64 minutes and the fourth place going to the Amazon branded charger at 67 minutes. Those are your top four uh, technically top 39 apple uh, with Sophie, scotch anger, welkin and Jataka filling in the spots between the fourth and last, and the last place goes to that 200 behemoth base station pro by nomad, so there is kind of an aster ix with the testing that I've done with the nomad base station pro and don't get me wrong. The base station normal basin great product this pro, if you're planning on getting it, I would actually hold off because there's a couple of things I did talk to. Uh nomad customer service, and they were saying that sometimes the screen will flicker- that's apparently normal.

They also said that on the iPhone 12s, the MagSafe magnets might interfere with the charge pad, and so I went and did a test with the iPhone 11 just to see if it was any better well that results coming up soon. I also did the same test with a galaxy device, and it's kind of the same thing as this product is kind of neat. You can update the firmware by plugging into your computer. I like the potential of what this offers, but as of right now is not that good or at all, it took 18 000 seconds to charge the iPhone 11 Pro to 50. Now the iPhone 11 Pro has a battery capacity around 3, 300 Williams and the iPhone 12 mini has around 2200 Williams.

So if we take two thirds of 18 000 seconds, that's still 12 000 seconds, which is three hours and around 20 minutes that is so long. You could charge your iPhone twice over with a normal, fast charger in that period, if not more. The final kicker to this overpriced failure is the fact that the pad will make your screen look funny, there's like waves on my iPhone 12, and in this time-lapse you can definitely see that my screen, just changes stuff, is happening on the screen on my iPhone, while it's charging facing does anybody else find this insane 200, and this is what you get now. There are kinds of three to four kickers when it comes to these products. That really annoy me and the first one is that some of these products just do way too much like this Jataka product this Scottish product.

It's just so many things. Do you really need to have like eight to nine products, plug electronic products plugged into this thing and put it right beside your head? A lot of these products I feel, are being used. You know for overnight purposes. So do you really need to have a command and control center plugged into your bed? Stand right beside you! It just doesn't really make any sense to me, especially when you know this. Jataka thing is designed for you to go travel but the size of this entire product.

You might actually be able to get away with bringing a power bar and all the cables and chargers and still have it to be smaller than this Jataka air OFNI knight like it just it really buckles my mind like and the second kicker is the fact that some of these products are actually incomplete, like you're, buying a charger so that you can go and charge in addition to what you have already, but some of these products, like this apple thing, this anchor thing you have to go, bring your own cable. So, like it's like a two and a half charger two and a half times charger like it's, not getting you anything better. You still have to bring your own stuff. It's like going to a really fancy store ordering risotto and then having to bring your own stock like it. Just doesn't make any sense to me and poor shout out oh enchanter, on mushrooms, you have to bring your own bruschetta and your own chanterelle mushrooms, like it just like seriously, who is like dropping 160 on this apple product only to have to tip apple for another 20 or 30 to buy the 20 watt charger like it just like that, really bothers me heavy cream.

I think I'm going to skip the risotto all right, we're getting risotto, apparently no you're, really that hungry we just had like pizza now. The third kicker for me is that some of these products come with extra ports like this nomad base station nope, not this one, that one's uh, this normal base station comes with an extra port. So does this pro the scotch products, so you can actually charge your iPhone faster plugged into that port than you can with the wireless charging and so that kind of just defeats the entire purpose like. Why would I do something slower when I know I can do something faster? Oh man, delivery! Isn't free. Did you want anything like we're doing a video right? Well, just all right I'll get you something, so the fourth kicker did you order your food yeah.

It's done ordered it's done. The fourth kicker is the fact that some of these things are just bloody, expensive, like we live in Canada, so I have to pay everything Canadian dollars. This nomad base station pro 200 us 260, Canadian, plus the 30 of import fees. This was so expensive, and normally I wouldn't bring this up to do that, but because we spent four hundred fourteen hundred dollars on all these things, my butt's a little chapped because, like premium product, should come with premium functionality. Stuff like this doesn't even stuff like this.

Doesn't I just I get annoyed, but that's kind of why we're doing all these reviews, because we don't want you guys to get annoyed all right? I'm done screw this Aaron's so dramatic. So if you're planning on getting one of these products make sure you use one of our links, this channel is sponsored. This content is sponsored, so yeah I spent 1400 on all these chargers. We've been testing these things, I think for at least two months. We started this.

A while back, and we've just been blowing up our iPhone 12 minis discharging and recharging them, and so we do this because that's just the right way to do a review like I just I cannot fathom just promoting one product because I'm getting paid to, because that's just not who I am so. You want to keep seeing more of this unbiased technological review, stuff subscribe to the channel, get your stuff through our links or go to our Patreon page and give us some support there, because I love doing it, but it cost a pretty penny, especially when products don't work out. So our final rankings are based on four scores, with the first being the score of the product in terms of design and functionality rank for the different charging tests and, finally, a score for the charge, consistency which is a difference in speeds when charging a device by itself and when it's fully loaded, we added in the charge consistency, because the product should be able to charge your device uh at the same speed regardless you, okay, I'll, be fine anyway, regardless of how many things are plugged into it. Uh. If a company is going to put in extra ports to a product, it better have the technology to ensure a consistent charging experience for charge consistency.

The best products were the Logitech powered and the score based links. So after we added up all the scores, there was a tie for first, there was a tie for a second and in third place was actually this uh Amazon, no name brand. This OK um such a weird name brand, despite the fact that, like it has a terrible design, the functionality is borderline, terrible the charge speeds and the charge. Consistency are uh quite good actually, but it is one of the cheaper products, and also you don't actually get to charge your AirPods wirelessly, it's still a wired connection, but the lightning cable on the km charger isn't mi5 certified. So you get what you pay for, I personally wouldn't um.

The third place would actually go to the Sophie three in one. This one now tied for second place is the scotch base links and the nomad base station, not the base station pro just the normal base station. The scotch bass links offers the best design and functionality and charges consistently, though the charge speeds are kind of in the middle of the pack, but it does offer a lot of extra functionality for those who want to charge more than just a phone watch and headphones now, if you don't need to charge an entire command and control center by your head at night, if it's just you, or you just got your watch AirPods and your device nope, not this one. I keep picking that one up. We go with the nomad bass station.

This is a solidly built product. The charge speeds are pretty consistent. Good all-around pick now time for first is the Logitech powered, as well as the MagSafe duo, and between these two products there's actually a KV for the tie. I personally go with this Logitech power. Now I will say that there is nothing that we've tested, that compares in terms of speed with the MagSafe duo, but you can only charge two things and you have to tip apple and buy a charger with it apple talks.

Now the main reason that the Logitech powered is tied for first and is not first, is because of the iPhone 12 mini size issues, but if you don't have that device, then I would go with the Logitech powered uh. The powered was one of the last products that we bought, and we're generally really impressed with it. It's a good product. In fact, I bought a Logitech mouse. I've always bought Logitech mouses and the last one I bought it's pretty awesome.

It's like an old person one because your wrist hurts kind of mouse. Is that way? Does that shape yeah anyways? That's all we got for this video questions. Comments leave them down there. There is one product that we are missing, which is the updated welkin powered up boost charge. You don't sell it in Canada and I couldn't find any way to get it, but if the welkin version- if this is any indication of what the chart speeds are for that product yeah, it's not that great uh.

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