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Powermat Wireless Charging Review

2009-12-14
hey guys John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo here they for you for you of the power Matt wireless charging system before I get into the nuts and bolts of what this thing does let me show you exactly how it works so it's got a single cord that plugs into a wall outlet and it's got three charging ports on the front now when they say wireless charging the first thing you're gonna think of is wireless charging you can take your device and put it right on top but that's not the case we actually have to put something else on top of the device to charge your phone or your iPod or whatever it is it might be and there are three ways you can do it when you buy a Power Max wireless charging system and you comes in the standard desk charger or a portable charger that folds they both are the same idea you get this charging cube and this cord rolls around and it goes in for storage and it's got a ton of different tips at the end and you can swap tips to charge to plug in to any device you like so you take this it's got a little circle on the bottom and it matches up with the little circle on the device and you can take your phone your PSP whatever it might be and plug it right in so certainly your phone for example won't have any wires since the wall we still have to plug it in with something now for $30 extra you can get if we're talking about an iPhone or an iPod Touch or an iPod a dot and that goes on one of the three available slots and you can take your phone put it right in and you'll be charging but again it's not completely wireless and the third option again for just around $30 is this case and it's a decent case it's made of sort of a soft touch rubber feel but on the back it's got a really large charging mat you put your phone in there and you can place it on there and charge you can charge three at a time so a little bit of note about each of these first this is not something that I would use on a regular basis especially not leave on the phone and keep in my pocket and just Park it down on here all the time it's very big and has a lot of weight something that I don't think would be the most conducive for for pocket or general care and use I'm not sure who this is applying to when you have to use the phone for example gotta open it up slide your phone in push it down the top part down and put it back on the charger that's a lot of work as opposed to just plugging in cording so I'm not so sure that this option would be what I'd recommend so secondary you've got this sort of dock which is quite handy just as you would charge any other phone or iPod and one of the apples docks so just go ahead and push it down and you'll be charging it really works as you'd expect it to the third option this little cord is actually more handy than you expected ton of different tips really make it useful for for a lot of different things that it comes with really a tip that'll fit most phones Samsung Nokia I really whatever else you have a mini USB microUSB iPod or iPhone there are a lot of different choices so what this does it works very well um and it works exactly as advertised they're not claiming that it's completely wireless charging i'm although if you joined by the commercials didn't really see any wires but if you're okay with having to plug your device still in or put it in a dock this does work exactly as you'd expect it charge the device it charges it almost as quickly as it would into a wall and it does save on outlets so I can charge three devices right here if that happened to plug three cords into a wall so what I recommend this well yes and no if you want to maybe save some space on your outlets or you don't want to mess a cords is this sort of a nice option and it does have a little bit of a cool effect to it because you are still getting that sort of pseudo wireless charging even though this still does have a wire that plugs in no I wouldn't recommend it in the sense that it's not really true wireless charger you're not getting any advantage other than sort of a cool factor in less cords than just charging three devices and certainly for $100 which is what this device costs it's gonna be a hard proposition to justify the drop down to around fifty it'd probably be a much easier recommendation but you know the final decision is going to be up to you if you're okay with what this thing does it does do it very well and it works like I said just as advertised but really gonna be your decision if you want to spend a hundred dollars on something that's actually cost you more if you buy this for a hundred bucks all you're going to get is one of these little cute you only charge one device if you want to charge your iPhone or another phone and to plunk down another 20 or 30 bucks for these other sort of adapters so this is gonna get more expensive if you want to charge 3 so many hundred bucks becomes 160 dollars with the two accessories so the city is going to be yours and what you want to spend your money on if it was me I don't think I could recommend this I'm sure they don't think I would buy one anyway guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content to check them out of Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and for all of your techniques be sure to check out TechnoBuffalo com I'll see you guys in the next video bye bye
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