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The Perfect Portable Charger for All Your Apple Gadgets Is Here

This is the first power bank that actually does what I want

Dave Gershgorn
Debugger
3 min readNov 4, 2020

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I love power banks.

I used to carry around a 26,800 mAh Anker power bank all the time, back when we went outside for extended periods of time. It weighed 20 ounces—more than a pound—but it was worth it.

The most annoying part of carrying around a power bank, though, is also needing to carry a bag with its associated cords. You probably already get the gist that I have more gadgets than common sense, so I’d need to carry around a USB-to-Lightning cable for my phone, USB-to-Apple Watch charger, USB-to-micro-USB, and USB-to-USB-C cables all the time just to use the already bulky charging brick.

But I recently preordered and received a gadget that fixes those issues.

The $100 Satechi Quatro wireless charging bank is a 10,000 mAh power bank that has a built-in Apple Watch charger and wireless charging pad, as well as USB-C and USB-A ports. It can charge my phone, watch, and iPad…

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Dave Gershgorn
Dave Gershgorn

Written by Dave Gershgorn

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.

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