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it's got a couple of little dots on it's
actually a kind of a strange looking
contraption
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quick disclaimer before this video
starts i am in no way affiliated with
any of the brands that are featured in
this particular video i have limited
experience with all these cables i'm not
telling you to go out and buy them i was
more interested in the creative
implementation of the various magnetic
designs that are out there in the market
in most cases you're going to be a lot
better off using the included cable that
you've already got with your device that
inserts all the way and does not utilize
a magnet so full disclaimer proceed with
caution if you're gonna pick up one of
these magnetic cables now as many of you
are aware they've been following the
channel for a while you know i like to
travel down the rabbit hole when it
comes to certain products product
segments accessories accessory segments
today is the culmination of one
particular rabbit hole the cable
magnetic cable rabbit hole i was in
search of the coolest cable on planet
earth so i bought a bunch off amazon as
you would if that's what you're looking
for and i was surprised to find out that
there's actually some pretty bizarre
pretty cool cables out there that aren't
like anything you've seen before i think
this one is the strangest
360 degree ball shaped magnetic cable
that's the cable right there and then
you insert whichever magnetic tip you
want onto that particular ball now i did
a bit of reading and that's why i
decided to buy a variety of cables i
mean like look at this one there's some
very bizarre connectors that are out
there now i know what you're saying
you're thinking hey man what's wrong
with the stock cable that you have
well nothing but obviously there's a
market for sort of more eccentric more
interesting cables and i started to
think
if i could get by with one of these
cables inside of my car it could save me
from having to tinker with the little
port and just slap it onto the magnets
if one of these can replace a stock
cable because the reviews are all over
the place all over the map so anyways
let's go ahead and get started with this
one which piqued my interest the most
but we will quickly move through all the
different variations that i've got in
this particular pile so it is a 2.4 amp
max 360 degree ball shaped magnetic
cable magnetic attraction charging
product
non-pollution non-not unique combination
of metal and magnetic premium quality
cable they might all be junk so this one
comes with the cable as well as a little
cable tie a velcro cable tie to organize
it i suppose a nice braided strong
feeling cable pretty high quality and
the part that i'm interested in is of
course here on the end all these things
have bunched up onto the magnet and yeah
you know what it's a pretty strong
magnetic pull right there now of course
one of the benefits with magnets well
there are many benefits to magnets who
doesn't love magnets the benefit in this
case is that you're not putting as much
strain on the port if you do tug away
from it the device and the little piece
will come off together the port on the
device will not be messed up as much or
damage a good example of this is a
playstation controller i have many of
them at my house and oftentimes
especially with those kids that you know
they're kind of in there jamming it in
there you get a little wiggle in the
port and then eventually it doesn't work
it's got a couple of little dots on it
it's actually a kind of a strange
looking contraption
it spins so it can face any direction
without becoming disconnected it comes
with three different tips usb type c
that's the one that i'm going to use
lightning this is for your iphone or
apple product a micro usb that i would
only use at this point for a playstation
controller and look they all stay
together because of the magic of magnets
obviously
okay that fits in like that and now
let's get the ball piece hooked up let's
see if this connects well
bam
very nicely
magnetically
it's not a crazy amount of force but
there's definitely
there's definitely some force to it
you're gonna have to apply some pressure
to get it off but it's kind of a nice
amount
now you can imagine you jump in the car
you just slap them together it's not a
lot of thought you're already on your
way and you're not getting that tug on
the port all right this is what i'm
talking about so this is very cool
although what's weird is
this is your reality now
now you have
this connector in there and that's what
i'm going to compare on all these
magnetic cables how big is the connector
because that's going to bug you it might
bug you now looking at the device here
it may appear to you that it extends
beyond the body it actually is almost
the exact same
thickness of the s20 ultra but that's a
pretty thick phone so keep that in mind
if you have a thinner phone it may
actually extend beyond the body and i'm
not sure if the convenience for me would
outweigh the fact that i got to stare at
this blob sitting at the bottom of the
sleek phone but either way it looks like
it functions now let's go ahead and plug
this in and make sure that it charges
that's kind of important all right so
i've got a charge brick here uh this is
a quick charge qualcomm quick charge 3.0
we'll see if we get any type of fast
charge okay i think i heard it
did it just start charging
seems that way
hold up
that's it and as you can see it keeps
charging it has not come disconnected no
matter which way you tug it so i think
that's a pretty cool cable now like i
said it there may be some downsides here
oh it looks like it just disconnected
there
you know what i mean if you if you tug
on it pull it in a weird direction it
may come disconnected if you can put up
with the glob at the bottom
it's one of the coolest connectors that
i've seen
it doesn't require any kind of pins to
make contact it's a single connection
point let's move over to a slightly
different scenario does this have a name
uh
just magnetic phone charger it's a
different implementation of the same
idea now this one is not a ball it's not
a full 360 type c
micro usb
and lightning for apple devices and when
these go on and connect
what
they're able to swivel like this so yeah
this one look it swivels around it's not
a full 360 but it's still gonna give you
some play it allows the cable
to move like this some might think
that's a bit more solid it's i think
it's a bit less cool all right so that's
working as expected
charging charging
no change in charging as you swing
around here i can still see it's
charging down there
still charging boom
not charging
boom
charging charging charging charging
i think oh off
and then charging
so if you pull up it comes off easily
if you pull straight it requires more
force now this one says 55 minutes until
full this one just has less of a cool
factor the magnetic connector here is
more narrow it's definitely more narrow
than this s20 ultra and likely more
narrow than your phone but it does kind
of have a weird shape to it
uh
this feels like the most robust cable so
far it's definitely braided yeah so this
one if you look on the inside here it's
the only one the first one so far that's
recessed it's not going to move around
as much once it's connected i don't
think i like it it's
it seems loose a little bit loose in the
port
and then
once it's on it's it's not all that
satisfying what is the style here um
that's an interesting connector so
it can spin 360 like this
it doesn't have the same thing that the
sphere can do where it can move on any
axis but this feels like a really solid
connection
maybe the most solid so far you have a
360 degree connection point so the pins
don't need to necessarily match straight
up but obviously it does jut out this
way so this one is slim up and down the
height of it but this way if you don't
have a fat phone it might poke out by
far the most solid connection so far if
that's what you're looking for the
breakaway there is the least likely when
i tug on it this one has this cool blue
led oh it goes brighter blue
so it's like a dim this one's pulling
the whole thing out
what is this design oh so this one
is similar to the other
with the recessed connection point on
there let's check this out all right
okay
see what i don't like it's a bit of
wobble on it ah so that's a nice bright
green led i have to say i give it points
for having the led baked in any of these
models that have the led baked in
because then with a magnetic connection
you might be a bit nervous at least you
know okay i'm charging but it's weird
that the led stays on i don't even know
if that shows up on camera it's a tiny
little brightness increase to indicate
that you're charging but it's cool it's
cool to see the ingenuity yes this is
fringe stuff now this one it says an
hour 17 to to fill where some of the
other ones on the same power brick had
said 50 minutes if you know of any
cooler ones i will certainly most
definitely order them up and give them a
shot i think i'm gonna put this one in
my truck and give it a try over a longer
period of time you have a phone that's
over a thousand dollars you're plugging
a weird
magnetic charger from god knows where
into that phone but you see that's my
job you know i gotta test this stuff so
you don't have to
there it is
the wide world
of magnetic cables that exist on amazon
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don't do this to your phone this can't
possibly be good for the battery
but it is fun
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