- I'm Andru Edwards, you're watching Gear Live
and one of the devices many people were excited about
from the last iPhone event was this guy right here.
This is Apple's MagSafe Duo charger.
A device that can wirelessly charge your iPhone 12
and Apple Watch at the same time,
but can also wirelessly charge your AirPods,
any previous iPhones with wireless charging capabilities,
and in fact, any device that's compatible
with Qi wireless charging.
In this episode, I show you how it works.
Let's do it.
What's going on tech squad, Andru Edwards here
and as I mentioned today,
we are taking a look at the MagSafe Duo charger.
Apple sent this over for review
so I figured I'd show you how it works.
So this is it right here, the MagSafe Duo.
It will cost $129 when it goes on sale.
And before we open this up,
I do also have unboxes and reviews of the new iPhone 12 mini
and iPhone 12 Pro Max,
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Let's get this opened up,
just pulling the top off here
and there it is, MagSafe Duo.
We're taking it out of the box.
You can see there again,
exactly what we saw on the front of the box.
You've got the MagSafe on one side
and the Apple Watch magnetic charger on the other.
And again, you can move the Apple Watch
magnetic portion upwards.
If you want to charge in dock mode
to use the nightstand features,
and then when you're not using it,
it folds up and it actually magnets together
so it's not floppy.
It actually securely closes
and stays closed until you open it again.
So let's see what else they've included here in the box.
We do have the lightning to USB-C cable,
and we've got all the disclosures here in the other area.
No Apple sticker included with the MagSafe Duo.
And let's take one more quick look at this.
Now, as you can see, it has a lightning port on it
so you can use the included
one meter USB-C to lightning cable,
or you can swap it out and use a longer cable,
which gives you way more options then something like this.
This is Apple's MagSafe charger,
just a standard MagSafe charger.
And as you can see, the cable is permanently attached
to this charger.
So if this cable is too short for you,
you're pretty much out of luck.
You can't remove it and plug in a longer cable
while with the MagSafe Duo charger you can.
Now you do also need to supply your own power source
since there's no AC adapter in this box.
So this is Apple's 20 watt charging adapter.
So when you go to the Apple store,
just look for this USB-C 20 watt power adapter.
Apple sells these for $19 a piece,
and this will work great with the MagSafe Duo.
So here's how this works.
You can put an iPhone 12 mini, 12, 12 Pro
or 12 Pro Max on the MagSafe side.
So here is an iPhone 12 mini.
And as you can see, once you put it on there,
it begins charging.
At the same time,
you can put an Apple Watch on the other side,
which I will do here.
Apple Watch, that's a series six,
and as you can see charging,
and this is still charging as well.
So simultaneous charging of an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
However, one thing you can also do
rather than an iPhone is take AirPods
that have a wireless charging case
and put that on the other side
and then you can charge an Apple Watch
and your AirPods at the same time.
These are AirPods Pro,
which shipped with a wireless charging case,
but you can also get these standard AirPods
with wireless charging case as well
and then charge a watch and AirPods at the same time.
Now I showed you how it looked with an iPhone 12 mini
so here it is with the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
And again, right there instantly starts charging.
So really convenient.
If you want to use one cable and one Apple charger
to charge multiple devices
rather than buying multiple chargers for different devices.
Okay, one other question I've seen people asking is,
can you remove your phone from a MagSafe Duo charger
without lifting the MagSafe Duo charger
when you lift your phone?
And the answer is, of course you can.
You just lift your phone
like that, set the phone down,
lift the phone up.
It's not that difficult at all.
There seemed to be a lot of concern about this
and I think that concern is unwarranted.
Okay, now, as I mentioned,
the MagSafe Duo will sell for $129.
When you compare that to the $39
of the standard MagSafe charger
and the $29 for the standalone USB-C Apple Watch charger,
you're paying an additional $60
for the convenience of having it all in one.
However, when you consider
that you'd need to power two separate chargers
versus one for the MagSafe Duo,
that brings the price difference down to about $40.
Some might say, even more fair comparison
would be the $39 MagSafe charger
and the $79 Apple Watch charging dock,
which allows you to use your Apple Watch in nightstand mode
just like the MagSafe Duo does.
When you look at it that way,
the MagSafe Duo what is the cheaper option by about $10
for the same utility and feature set.
Okay, so we do know the price,
but what we don't know is when the MagSafe Duo
will be available.
Apple says it's coming soon.
And since they've already sent it out for review,
I imagine it won't be too long of a wait.
Now, if you have any questions
about the MagSafe Duo charger,
drop them down in the comments below,
and I'll meet you there for further discussion.
Of course we'll have much more on the iPhone 12,
all the accessories and everything else
Apple will be announcing this week on Geared Up.
Geared Up is the show I do each week with John Rettinger
where we cover the latest in tech, gadgets and games.
Just hear Geared Up in your favorite podcast player,
if you want to listen.
Until next time, thank you so much for watching guys.
I appreciate your support.
I'm Andru Edwards and I'll catch you in the next video.
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