Before You Buy Guy Here. In today's video we're taking a look at the Anker Powercore 13,000
I've been working hard or researching and finding out everything
that you need to know before you buy this product this video is gonna be really quick: let's get to it
so taking a look at Anker as a company that are
established in 2011 Anker is a subsidiary of Anker Innovations
the name comes from the German word for anchor. You can buy Anker products on Amazon
some of these products are now for sale at big retailers Walmart and Target
let me know where you've seen the anchor product for sale. Now in this box
you're gonna get one power pack, one convenient material pouch you can use
this to store your power bank and avoid it getting scratched if you drop it
you'll also get a micro USB charging cable which you can use to charge your device
now if you have a phone that's charged by a micro USB cable you'll be
able to use this cable to charge your phone and charge your power pack having
a closer look at the power bank you can clearly see the anchor branding edged
into the device. At the front here you've got four blue lights that indicate the
level of charge that's in this battery pack you can have one bar for a low
charge and all the way up to four bars for a full charge. On this side here
you've got some detailed product information and on the other side you've
got the input and output ports. There are two USB charging ports and one micro USB
charging port. Now you can use this for charging the battery pack. There's also a
little button on the side here you can press this button at any time to give
you an indicator of how much power you've got left in your pack
it is worth noting that this power pack doesn't come with a cable to charge your phone so you
will need to use the cable that comes with your phone OR purchase another cable
now this is really important information you can't charge this power
pack at the same time that you're charging your phone
if you want to charge your phone you've got to unplug the power pack from
being charged and then charge your phone but because this battery has got quite a
decent capacity you probably won't need to charge it that often
this charger does support some fast charging technology it uses a
technology called power IQ to work out what type of device you have to deliver
the maximum possible charge that it can deliver from its 3 A output. So according
to Anker you can charge an iPhone 6s around five times - you can get a full
charge for a galaxy s6 3.5 times and you can charge an iPad air twice
I'm sure you're probably using a device that's a little bit more modern
than that but at least that gives you some sort of a benchmark to start having
to think about how much charge you get for your phone. It doesn't have to be a
phone you can charge tablets anything that'll take the charge with the USB
cable should be able to get some type of charge from this device
other features of this power pack includes surge protection circuit protection
I think the matte black finish looks really good on this device and it's
going to help it stay clean or at least look clean for longer in addition to
having the pouch you should be able to keep your device looking newer for longer
this portable charger weighs about 240 grams now I measured this
product using a ruler and the dimensions that I got were around seven point five
centimeters by nine point five centimeters by two centimeters I'll put
the conversion four inches on the screen now as well. The capacity of this
Powerbank is 13,000 milliamp hours and for its size
that's actually quite a large capacity most power banks with that much power
are quite a bit larger than this. Now this battery pack does like quite a
long time to charge, maybe seven to eight hours. If you fully drain the battery you
might find it beneficial to leave this on to charge overnight
Now while this battery pack can offer you some fast charging for your phone it
doesn't really have fast charging for the battery pack itself
I think that the size of this charger really hits a sweet spot because you want to make sure that
you're going to get at least a few charges out of the battery pack
the really small and portable battery packs: you only get maybe one
one-and-a-half charges and then you have to recharge your battery
having something that's a little bit bigger that provides at least a few charges
at least you won't have to worry about running off and charging your
battery pack all the time. But I guess it's a personal preference thing I find
this pretty easy and convenient to fit in a bag or take with you you can even
slip it into your pocket. I think this size really hits a sweet spot between
having good capacity and also being quite portable and being able to fit in your bag easily
Some of the main positive for this device are
you can charge two devices at the same time and for its capacity this device is really small
I've heard that anker offers really great after sales service I do
really like the material bag that comes with this product
I like the premium feel to this product and it really does feel like a quality build
it appears to be well made and I like the matte black finish
Now there are some things that I think Anker could improve on and that includes this
power pack could really benefit from faster charging of the device it's only
a micro USB and I think if it had a USB C input charging it could really speed
up the charging time. I think it would have been nicer if Anker included a
wall charger with this power pack but I guess that would increase the price and
you can just purchase a wall charger separately if you want to. But ultimately
having a ball charger would certainly be handy it's not included with this power
pack but most power packs don't include a wall charger so it's hard for me to
really hold that against them I really would prefer it as well
if this power pack could charge your phone while it's being charged quite a
few times I've gone to try and do it and realized again it doesn't work
I jumped on Amazon to have a look at what some customers had to say about this device
and I must say most customers were pretty happy with this power bank.
while there certainly are some things that I think anchor could improve on this
device overall I've been pretty happy with this charger with only minor
improvements that could be made. This is a functional power pack and it works as advertised
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