hey guys EBPMAN here and today were to
take a look at samsung's official
wireless charger and this one was
released with the samsung galaxy S8
let's check it out
now before the Samsung s8 was released
last year's s7 charger looks something
like this so it was one that was kind of
fixed it had kind of this kind of look
to it and it really worked very well
Samsung now released a newer charger and
this is a convertible charge I'm going
to see why they call it a convertible
high-priced $89 charger so let's check
out why and if that $89 price is
justified with the specific Charter so
let's go ahead and take a closer look at
the specs so this is a Qi charger which
means it's going to work with the LG G 6
as well as the Samsung line of phones
pretty much any phone that supports Qi
charging technology it is also a fast
wireless charger now as a fast wireless
charger is never going to charge at the
speed as being plugged into a physical
wall socket where you're using a plug
just like this it's going to be a lot
faster using this way so this is more of
a convenience feature something where
you want to just place your phone and
let it charge now typically with these
chargers I have had some good experience
with them where you can have a case on
your phone and I have had relatively
thick cases even including some of the
ones from OtterBox and never had a
problem it does as you can see here has
a 9 watt wireless fast charging which is
only going to be supported by the
Samsung devices so the G 6 won't support
this has multiple changing charging coil
so it's going to give you a lot of
flexibility when you place it now this
is one of the interesting things here
notice this flash item built-in fan to
cool your phone during fast charging now
I don't know if anyone has experienced
this yet but if your s8 does overheat
and I'll give you a specific scenario
where that takes place let's say you're
in your car and you put on top of your
dash and the heat the Sun is hitting it
directly I have had a situation where
the temperature on my essay was higher
and the phone shut itself down because
of heat protection so I think this is a
new feature that Samsung put in you know
just trying to combat some of the
overheating issues that drove to some of
the battery issues that they had with
the add note 7 so what I find
interesting
both the decks you know the desktop
solution has a built-in fan and this I
believe and you can comment below is the
first wireless charge that has a fan as
well now inside the box that you're
going to find is your wireless charge
and we'll take a look at this for a
second you have a power brick and this
is the fast charging power brick and you
do have a USB C charging cable you do
have a little Quick Start Guide which
will put aside but that's pretty much
all to it so wireless charger USB C
cable and a while in the actual power
brick now taking a closer look at the
charger itself so it works in two ways
first so I could be flat like this and
you can place your phone on top of it
but if I move up like this and then tilt
upwards it opens up so it could be
standing up let me show you how that
worked again so basically this bottom
comes this way and then it tilts up and
then you have a place in this angle so
you can have it like this
where you can put your phone here to
charge now if I compare it to the last
year's version you'll notice that now it
kind of looks a little similar the
difference is that this one can support
both angles now the material that's here
it's interesting because the material it
doesn't feel quite leather but it is a
rubbery kind of material here that's
going to keep your phone from from
falling off or falling sideways that's
what one of the things that I notice
right there now in the back here you'll
notice it has all dis venting which is
for the fan your USB C connection and
then you have just your your bottom
serial number and whatnot there it does
have that kinda hinge mechanism it
doesn't feel like it's going to fall
back that easily so it does require some
coaxing for it to go back into place all
in all it looks nice it feels good let's
see how a charges alright so let's go
ahead and see what it looks like when
you charge so I'm going to plug in the
power adapters here and you'll notice
that it does flash on as it's being
powered up we're going to put it here in
place and want to charge our s8
all right so let's go ahead and test the
wireless chargers I'm going to put it in
place and wait to see is if we get that
little message says fast wireless
charging which it did I turn it here in
an angle and I'm going to check and see
if the fan is on and I can actually feel
the fan operating so it is keeping your
fan your phone cool and the charging
station cool as well that's interesting
it's there's a light breeze I can't
really hear it so I don't think this is
going to be something that would bother
you at night but it is on so let's go
ahead and look at it in the next
charging position so now we have it in
the next charging position which is the
flat one let's go ahead and put it right
on top and what we should see is the
fast wireless charging which it is and
now just trying to see if I can feel the
cool air coming through and you can as
well so here through the sides there's
actually you can feel kind of a slight
breeze as the fan is operating keeping
the charging station cool and the phone
as well so now one other thing I wanted
to mention about the fast wireless
charger is that I did test it with
multiple charging bricks from
third-party providers you've seen a lot
of them that I reviewed on the channel
and none of the charging solutions the
power bricks themselves were able to
give me a fast charging charge from a
wireless perspective I think that has to
do with the power requirements given
that this has a fan and also needs to be
able to deliver the fast wireless
charging it doesn't seem like the
existing chargers can handle providing
enough power to give it both features so
if you do have an extra charging brick
or a charging brick that you use for
travel and it's from a third party not a
Samsung you're going to want to make
sure that you have the one that came
with this unit with you because if you
don't you won't get fast charging so
this concludes my review of the Samsung
convertible wireless charging solution
if you ask me is this worth the 89
dollars in my opinion it probably is not
however it does have some cool
technology it is very good-looking I
like the fact that it has two modes to
charge the cooling pad also I think
gives you peace of mind I just have
never had my samsung phone overheat
while charging so I don't know
this is going to be a compelling enough
value proposition for you to want to put
almost $100 for a charger so that
concludes the video conference questions
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