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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024
This review is using this new Anker power bank with an iPhone 14 Pro with an official Apple leather Magsafe case and have used the charger for a few days now under different levels of power left in the power bank.
1) I've known for awhile now that wireless charging is inefficient, but my iPhone 14 Pro has a reported 3200mah capacity battery, so this power bank theoretically has enough power to charge it roughly 3x. I'll take efficiency at 66% and still it should recharge my phone 2x, right? Nope. Either I got a dud or it's even less efficient than that -- I watch the LCD display to see that I can sometimes charge the phone 10% using anywhere from 7 to 10% of the power bank. Yes, that's right...sometimes it shows I get 1:1 charging, so I can charge my phone ONE time.
2) The brings me to the second problem. the LCD display is certainly prettier than LED lights you normally see. But it's a case of "false precision" -- I don't think it's actually very accurate. The time left bounces around like crazy on mine. Literally changes a couple times as I look at it for 10 seconds. 8 hours left, 5 hours left, oh wait, now it's 6 hours. HOPEFULLY, the magnitude is roughly correct, but in that case, LED lights are certainly enough.
3) As others have reported, it gets fairly warm. But I expected that. It's not good for batteries though.
4) It's chunky and heavy for a 10k power bank. Must be the Qi2 circuitry because I've owned Anker power banks before and they were not this heavy for this capacity. Also, it extends past the bottom edge of my iPhone just a tiny bit, which admittedly doesn't really affect much, but it's just an unfortunate design.
Now, if this were a normally priced power bank, maybe I would forgive the shortcomings a bit, but man, the price on this is pretty high comparatively, and I just don't think it's worth the cost at this point.
1) I've known for awhile now that wireless charging is inefficient, but my iPhone 14 Pro has a reported 3200mah capacity battery, so this power bank theoretically has enough power to charge it roughly 3x. I'll take efficiency at 66% and still it should recharge my phone 2x, right? Nope. Either I got a dud or it's even less efficient than that -- I watch the LCD display to see that I can sometimes charge the phone 10% using anywhere from 7 to 10% of the power bank. Yes, that's right...sometimes it shows I get 1:1 charging, so I can charge my phone ONE time.
2) The brings me to the second problem. the LCD display is certainly prettier than LED lights you normally see. But it's a case of "false precision" -- I don't think it's actually very accurate. The time left bounces around like crazy on mine. Literally changes a couple times as I look at it for 10 seconds. 8 hours left, 5 hours left, oh wait, now it's 6 hours. HOPEFULLY, the magnitude is roughly correct, but in that case, LED lights are certainly enough.
3) As others have reported, it gets fairly warm. But I expected that. It's not good for batteries though.
4) It's chunky and heavy for a 10k power bank. Must be the Qi2 circuitry because I've owned Anker power banks before and they were not this heavy for this capacity. Also, it extends past the bottom edge of my iPhone just a tiny bit, which admittedly doesn't really affect much, but it's just an unfortunate design.
Now, if this were a normally priced power bank, maybe I would forgive the shortcomings a bit, but man, the price on this is pretty high comparatively, and I just don't think it's worth the cost at this point.
