Now if you are anything like me you probably have a number of
different devices that you gotta keep charged on a daily
basis just to kind of keep everything going in your
daily life. Now Pitaka hopes to simplify that with the
introduction of the Air Quad which is a four-in-one wireless
charger designed to charge an iPhone, Air Pods,
Apple Watch and it even has an integrated USB C connector to
Gordon charger iPad Pro. Let's get started
What is going on everyone? it is Mike and welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV. This is the Air Quad from Pitaka and it's
capable of charging a number of different devices both
wirelessly and wired through a integrated USB C or even
lightning connector depending on how you configured.
So just so you and I are on the same page. This is not a paid
review from Pitaka. This is something that they sent out to
me really unbeknownst to me after I met with them at CES a
couple weeks ago and I'm really sharing my experiences with you
after using it for the past week. So it is what it is.
Right and then you know how I feel about it. Now this costs
one hundred and ninety nine dollars and you know when you
first open up the box the first thing that you see is it feels
quite premium because the device is heavy. Now I would
tell you that it weighs about a pound and half my scales broken
at the moment but it feels about almost the same as about
a bag of flour.
That's the comparison I can tell you for it. Now the back
of this is all metal. All right. There are five
rubber footies on the bottom of it to prevent it from slipping
depending on where you go and put it. And this one in the
middle here. What's nice is that you pull this up and it
becomes a back plate to rest your device on that you go
ahead and place into this integrated USB- C or lightning
connector that's on the back here. So you don't worry
about you know one kind of putting stress on that port
while it's in here into it gives you kind of another gives
you a viewing angle when you go ahead and using your device
that's in that location you can use it as maybe you know
FaceTime or Skype with people you can use it.
I mean it just makes it I guess a great location if you're
putting it on your desk or whatever whatever the case is
now what kind of uniquely is that the front of this is all
Aramid fiber and it's soft touch and it feels nice and has
a kind of a premium texture to it. So here on the front
there are three wireless coils that allows you to go and place
your phone from side to side here and it will deliver 10
watts of wireless power to your device. If you are an
Android device or if you have an iPhone can deliver seven and
half Watts here. This is where you place your Air Pods or your
your QI enabled wireless headphones that will deliver
five watts of power and then this will deliver five watts
as well.
You have an Apple Watch wireless puck here that can be
shown in either this horizontal or vertical orientation.
It's kind of slick the way that just kind of slowly creeps up
like that nice. So like if you have a link band that you'll
take off at night you can use it in that vertical orientation
and you can even use the nightstand sand mode and then
the USB C or lightning connector that's on the back
would deliver 18 watts which is the equivalent of
fast charging. Now that is enough to to charge an iPhone
or an Android device 50 percent in 30 minutes but for an iPad
Pro it's can take a little bit longer because to begin a
bigger battery.
Now looking at the device here you know there's nothing on the
front or even on the on the right hand side of it if you're
looking at the device itself but on the left hand side there
is a button that you could depress to go ahead and engage
or disengage the Apple Watch charging puck. And there is
that rolling dial that will go ahead and move the USB-C.
or lightning physical connector back or forward depending on
whether or not you have a case. Now what I like about this
there's a really nice presentation when you open out
the box. It does have a sense of being a premium accessory.
It does have you know can a heavy weight to it's not going
to slip off your desk it does have this nice soft touch
texture to it.
And for me I have a iPhone obviously. I have
my AirPods, i have my Apple Watch but I also have a twelve
point nine inch iPad Pro and from time to time it's actually
very nice to place it into this charging dock and use it for
FaceTime call so I can go ahead and face time with a friend or
family member and use it in this orientation and it's still
going to be charged. Now there are no additional connections;
you can't plug in a USB C cable to this and charge another
device or even a USB A cable. Now the one thing that don't
like is that the power connector that plugs into this
is going to be a barrel charger so it's it's proprietary in the
sense that it is unique to Pitaka.
But it's not a USB C or it's not even a cable that's
integrated to this so if you lose that or you break it or
you can't choose it whatever the cases you will have to
reach out back to Pitaka to go and get another one. So at the
end of the day the question becomes really who should buy
this at one hundred ninety nine dollars. You know it's
taking place of a wireless charger for your phone for your
air pods and for your Apple Watch. Those three things
combined plus you're saving space and you the ability to go
out and charge a fourth device assuming that's gonna be USB-C
or lightning. Oh I think at one hundred ninety-nice dollars it
does give a very good sense of being premium it does have a
nice fit and finish to it.
I actually do like it a lot. I'm going to put it on my desk
at least for the time being. See how it works out there
because they don't currently have a wireless charger for
both my phone and my AirPods and from time to time my watch
dies in the middle of the day while I'm working so it's nice
to have that. Now I do have the Scosche, screech and
I'm not really sure how you pronounce it but the BaseLynx
charger which is kind of a configurable modular solution
which allows you to charge many different devices and it's
really easy to integrate these different charging modules into
it to expand it for different functionality. Let me
know if you want to see a review that in the comments
below and I will talk to the next one.
Hey everybody. Thank you very much for watching my review of
the Pitaka Air Quad. Now I do have a lot of other reviews in
the pipeline for iPad Pro accessories,
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I am Mike and I will talk to the next one.
Just kidding.