Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Closest Thing to AirPower!”.
Hey, what’s up guys mkbhd here and welcome to a quick video about an impressive knockoff of the product that never was air power and i’ll also be attempting to set a record for the shortest mkbhd video of this year. 2019. So far, we’ll see how i do. Okay, so i posted a video of this on twitter not too long ago a couple days ago, and it got a lot of interest and a lot of questions so for those who haven’t seen it yet this is called air unleashed and the honest truth is: there’s A ton of other wireless chargers that i’d recommend first before this one, because they’re either more functional or cheaper.
But if you’re just straight up trying to get as close to that air powered dream as possible. So clearly, they’ve taken the approach of trying to create the closest possible thing to what apple was going to make kind of shamelessly because hey, why not? So it has this soft touch felt bottom, as apple probably would and a white smooth surface up top. You supply your own charging, brick to plug it into the non-removable cable, so you plug it in and you can now charge your iphone. Your apple watch and your wireless charging airpods on the same white oval shaped pad. That looks just like air power. Okay, so natural question: why does this exist and air power doesn’t, while it’s a little different from what air power was going to be? You can watch my full video i’ll link it right below the like button on why air power died and what it was supposed to be, but to make a long story short air power was supposed to be. This magical mat filled with a ton of overlapping coils. So you could drop any compatible apple device anywhere on the mat and it would just start charging like it was supposed to be really easy kind of like magic, but also really tough to make, and it ended up presenting a lot of heat issues. So this air unleashed is just three coils, very simply so.
A cheat charging coil on the left hand side under that plus a qi charging coil on the right hand, side under the other plus and then a special proprietary apple watch charging coil in the indent. In the middle with some magnets, so it sort of fits in there and lines up every time. So the apple watch, of course, does not use qi wireless charging, so it won’t charge on the left or right side only in the middle and, of course, since it is qi wireless charging, you can put whatever compatible device you want, it doesn’t have to be an Iphone could be anything that wirelessly charges, but, as you can see, sort of by this layout, it’s not perfectly lined up straight across. So this left side, as you can see, has a little bit more space. So if you’re just ever charging one phone, you can pretty much just toss it down somewhere on here and you’ll have plenty of room and it lines up pretty well. Most of the time, that’s great if you ever want to charge a phone and an apple watch cool.
But then, once you add a third device that third one has to be a little bit smaller, because the coil is pushed over here near the edge and it doesn’t have as much room around it basically means you can’t quite fit another phone on here without bumping Off the apple watch, which means it’s perfect for airpods, but if you get rid of the apple watch in the middle, then you can charge two normal sized phones, no problem, okay. So some other questions from when this was posted on twitter rich asks, basically how fast these things will be charging, which is a good question, because you’re, basically splitting your charger from one thing to three different things charging at once. So i did my own little test.
I supplied my own wall adapter, which was the oneplus warp charger, but basically any quick charge 2.0 or 3.0 or later brick will work. If you have one or if you buy another one, it’s a couple extra bucks anyway. I plugged it in for about 20 minutes with the phone starting at 50 and the watch starting at dead, so after leaving them there for the full 20 minutes, all of them charging at once.
The phone had gotten up to 56 and the watch had gone from zero to 11. So quick math, that’s about five and a half hours of charging, the phone from zero to 100 and about three hours to charge. The watch so and it’ll go a little faster. If you only charge one of them at a time, but you know that’s not fast wireless charging by any means that’s totally average and then another question was just: does it get really hot or people wondering if mine has caught on fire? And i’m i’m happy to report mine has not caught on fire, yet it does get a tiny bit warm, but the devices that are actually charging usually get more warm than the pad in the first place, so i’m actually not worried about heat at all. That’S, of course, more of a air power reference and then will the dbrand skin work on the air power knockoff. So yes, dbrand did make a joke air power skin for april fool’s day, but no there were never any official dimensions released for air power so that skin was sort of just mocked up to be roughly correct, based on the size of the iphone.
So i cannot confirm that the skin that dbrand made for air power would actually fit this perfectly. Yes, i asked that was the conclusion that we came up with, but at the end of the day, it’s not bad for a knockoff, although i guess is it really? A knockoff if the product, the original product never existed in the first place, i don’t know still feels like they’re copying apple, it’s an expensive wireless charger. You know it comes with the cable built in, but there is no brick in the box. You’Ll have to get one that’s separate and we all know air power was going to be even more expensive, but this thing is 99 bucks on their site. So, like i said, there’s plenty of other charges for cheaper but uh for apple vibes. This is the one.
If you live in that ecosystem, if you have an iphone and an apple watch and wireless charging airpods, well then this is all you could apple have made this if they wanted to. If they just realized air power, as the concept wasn’t going to work, could they have just made this three-coil version yeah? I think they could have, but they were so set on that magic of air power and they don’t want to come up short from what they’ve promised people on stage, so they just cancelled it completely. So this is the next best thing all right. How do we do shortest video of the year? Was that rollable tv, video from ces didn’t quite hit that mark, but hey this was still a fun one hope you enjoyed.
Thank you for watching catch. You guys in the next one peace. .