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Power to go however you want it. Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This fairly unassuming little device is the Infinitech
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Pandora Portable Power or P3. It is an 8000 milliamp hour charger but it's also a battery
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It also works for pass-through power and it also actually does wireless power. So there's a lot of
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different things you can do with it, not the least of which is it has prongs built in so when you
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need to charge it you just plug it into the wall. Unlike just about every other device I've ever
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seen it also has a digital readout that shows you what percentage is charged. So this is 95
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charged which makes it pretty darn easy to know whether you need to plug it in again or whether
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it's good to roll. Now it comes with these international plugs for EU and UK so it works
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from 110 to 240 volts and 50 or 60 hertz which means you can take this when you travel and it's
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pretty ingenious the way they do this because these literally slide on top of the regular prongs
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So now it's ready to go like that and when you're done you just take that off and you're back to
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where you were with the original US 110 prongs. So it does Qi wireless charging it's going to be
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5, 7.5 or 10 watts so theoretically that's a fast Qi charge but my experience was not quite so
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that good but we'll get back to that in a second. And then on the side really the only thing to look
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at is this side and it has an LED light it has USB-C and that USB-C includes PD power delivery
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and then there's two USB 3 the top of which is a quick charge and then the lower one is just
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regular USB 3 and then at the bottom push the button and you get the percentage charge. So all
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of that it's pretty simple I mean it's not really a complicated device but how does it work? So I
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took my Google Pixel 4 and I tried charging it different ways. So first off when I charge this
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using it wirelessly and that's super easy you just make sure that it's on and you just go ahead and
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lay a wireless charging device on it and assuming your device supports wireless boom it will just
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start charging so it's charging now but it's charging slowly and it charges pretty slowly in
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fact it picked up a 20% charge in an hour so that was not really very fast but I then said all right
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well it's USB-C so I happen to have a short USB-C to USB-C so I plugged it into the USB-C port
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on the Pandora portable power unit and that gave me a 64% charge in an hour which was a
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solid result and in fact the Pixel phones actually give you sort of a rating of how fast
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it's charging and it did say charging rapidly so in this case that power delivery worked great
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so what's really cool is that if I plug in other devices too then it turns out that I can charge
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all three simultaneously without any performance penalty on any of the charges in other words
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I am now charging my Apple AirPods Pro and two different Pixels and they are all charging as
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fast as they can go that is not a bad setup and considering that this is small and light
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it's really a pretty nice deal so how small is it well you can see it's a square so it's actually
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6.3 by 5 inches by 2 inches thick and it's about 11 and a half ounces there's no way around it
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batteries end up being heavy because they need the capacity and I can feel just a little bit of
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warmth nothing really dramatic and if I want to I can also do pass-through charging so while all
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this is going on I can actually plug it into the wall with my handy extension cord so now I'm
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charging this unit even as most of the power is being pushed out to the other devices to charge
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this is a really flexible device now just out of curiosity I did take the USB-C and plug it into
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my MacBook and then I looked at how much wattage it's getting and that's 15 watts so it's not going
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to charge your Mac however enthusiastic you may be but on the other hand you know for smaller devices
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for phones tablets headphones earbuds anything like that this is a great option and the fact
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that you can do multiple simultaneously is really handy now I will take points off because you have
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to supply your own cables there are some devices like this that do everything including the wireless
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charging and have little cables that you unfold and that just are very you know ready to roll and
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just part of the system that's really handy but the infinitech doesn't do that so it is in fact
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a really flexible battery so I'll plug everything so that's really all you need to know other than
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the fact that it's actually surprisingly inexpensive this is less expensive than you
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anticipate so before we get to the price I'm just going to ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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whatever give me some feedback subscribe to my channel really appreciate it so this is the
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infinitech pandora portable power or p3 8000 milliamp hour battery and it's $39.99 at amazon.com
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that is a pretty solid deal for something that has this much power and flexibility and I say power
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literally not just figuratively so with that you should definitely check it out and I'll catch you
