Anker 622 Magnetic Battery MagGo, 5000mAh Foldable Magnetic Wireless Portable Charger and USB-C for iPhone 14 & 13 Series (Interstellar Grey)

GOOD PRODUCT FOR TRAVELLERS WITH 2 PRODUCTS TO EB CHARGED

Perfect travel charger to juice up my smartphones, bluetooth speaker and my Anker Powercore 26800mah battery pack with dual charging port. And is lighter and smaller than I expected. Best replacement to Apple’s crappy and puny 5V iphone charger.

You can plug this directly on most surge-connectors or just get a conversion plug (for my fellow Indian brethren).

*I want to point out that Anker includes on the product page that the iPhone 14 Pro is compatible, so that is the angle of my review. If I had an older iPhone model my views would be different*

As always Anker is such a good value solution to the overpriced Apple 1st party products. Amazes me how they do this and the products still seem like you are getting a premium product. What they’ve done perfectly is realise that sane people don’t want to be ripped off but also are happy to still pay a decent amount as opposed to going for the complete crap alternatives. I will list the Good & Bad below and elaborate where needed.

The Good:
– Premium feel (Nice rubberised texture)
– Strong magnet
– USB-C charging is incredible to have for both charging the bank quicky or using the port for wired charging
– Just about an acceptable size (You definitely know it’s there while holding your phone or in your pocket but to be fair it’s about the size of the Apple one.
– Nice to have colour options for those who aren’t boring like me and get black
– Light indicators are handy and easy to understand after a couple of uses

The Bad:
– It doesn’t come close to charging my phone fully even if I don’t use it. I’m not technical enough to understand this but I’m confused to why a 5000 mAH battery doesn’t fully charge my 3200 mAH phone? For example I’ve whacked it on a few times when my phone is at ~20% and at best it gets to 65-75% Don’t get me wrong that’s not bad but I think for the size of it, I feel 1 full charge is not unreasonable to expect.
– The actual speed in which it charges the phone is pretty poor and that’s while using the phone or just charging. Again this just feels like it further limits when to use this. To be fair the Apple MagSafe charger is the same if not worse charging speed but feel like it’s worth noting that it’s slow to charge and if this can be improved then it should. Plus at least with Apple’s you can charge both your phone and the battery pack at the same time and also get a boost in charging speed.
– I’ve touched on this a couple of times on the above points but feel like it needs it’s own space to elaborate on. Using my phone while having this charger on further highlights it’s limitations which may be just because I have the most powerful phone they state is compatible in terms of my phone’s battery capacity and it’s possible more power hungry hardware.

To give an example I’ve used this when on long hikes and city breaks and if I let my phone’s battery get to low while needing to still use it for navigation, texting and taking photos then putting this charger on doesn’t fill me with the most confidence. The battery will get really warm and my phone would at worst stay in the same battery percentage range or just only charge ever so slightly. So yes you still get extended use of your phone by having this but for my needs this isn’t enough.

To wrap this up I’m giving it 3* with my specific use on a iPhone 14 Pro but I would strongly suspect this to be a lot better on older iPhones.

I rarely take this out with me when I will be dependent on being able to charge my phone on the move even for a day or two. I still rely on a chunky 20000+ mAH battery pack. However I like to keep this in my work bag as a ‘just in case’ and find it useful to give a little bump to my battery while driving home or if I end up out and about longer than expected.

Carga rápido, no pesa, fácil de cargar

This MagSafe Powerbank from anker is really a good one. It’s Better than apple’s but it’s a little expensive but still according to me it’s worth it.