Does anyone know what the dimensions and weight of this unit are? Considering it promotes its’ ‘slimness’ as a key selling point, the dimensions are remarkably elusive both on Anker’s web site and on the internet in general.
PowerCore II Portable charger 10000mAh
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Well it doesn’t have QC. 3 out 2 in seems pretty good. Might be too large for your liking, though.
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Huh? The Powercore II 10000 is QC input and output. If you’re referring to Powercore II 20000 then it isn’t QC.
It is a confusing mess of names and the port colors used to be blue for QC but now not.
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I was talking about the PowerCore II 20000. Seems somewhat compact.
Still kinda surprised they went with QC on the 10000 and not the 20000
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This one is the same size as the 10400, but with 260 mAh more. It’s also 3A vs 2.4 I believe.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z9QVE4Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_BPalzb510QN3K
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Do you have the PowerCore+ 20100 for your Pixel C?
Most people only own one QC device - phone. So in a multiport device like II 20000 you’d have overkill all 3 ports being QC. In one port smaller powerport it would primarily be used for phones, hence QC.
If you look across nearly every Anker product they have that paradigm, usually if there is QC it is single port.
This is why QC as a port and charging tech has to die, it is a dinosaur when compared with USB-PD. Inside the phone obviously you have QC to intelligently charge the battery but that’s true of every phone you have to alter the charge to the battery, with a progressively higher voltage and lower current and lots of stepping from the input power, just I don’t see why the input can’t be USB-PD over USB-C then we have one universal port, one universal power delivery, and differentiation is inside each end of the wire over the USB-PD standard. It would vastly simplify everything.
The children suffer as the adults bicker.
Betamax anyone?
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“The PowerCore II Slim appears to be the first PowerCore battery pack to include Anker’s new chipset, which delivers the fastest possible charging speeds to every USB device you own, including Quick Charge 3.0. That said, you’ll notice it’s not actually a Qualcomm-certified Quick Charge 3.0 product; it just replicates the tech on Anker’s own chip. That means less internal circuitry, and more room for battery, resulting in one of the thinnest 10,000mAh battery packs ever made”
So what is the truth here @AnkerOfficial is it a secret QC3 but can’t say officially?
Has anyone benchmarked, or better metered, this relative to QC3 other Powercore?
Ah, so that’s what IQ 2 does…
I ordered one. Should be here Tuesday. I’ll let you know. I sure hope it’s QC… that’s why I bought it. If it’s not, I’m sure Anker will understand.
A couple things to note:
- It shows it charging a QC 3 device (and mentions it)
- If it wasn’t QC, it would say so like all of their other power banks.
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If Anker wanted to be truly clever:
- they’d accept any type of Volts, Amps, then would charge off unregulated solar.
- they’d output any type of Volts, Amps, with 2 or 3 ports of popular types and a BT app on your phone to dial a custom Volts/Amps to then power non-USB devices like laptops.
Smaller batteries don’t need the BT app, but larger 26800 could benefit.
Anker would so corner the market if they did this.
It is only electronics and they are only limited by imagination.
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Awesome review.
My only question is it usb c or micro usb for charging th actual bank? Other than that great review and definitely something I would consider purchasing.
They do look a lot nicer!
What does it look like?
Don’t recall 3.0 micro very well.
3.0 micro was used on Samsung Galaxy S5…I only know this because i had to switch from my Moto X Pure to the S5
Isn’t 3.0 micro what they use for the Portable Western Digital drives nowadays?
3.0 micro is used on a number of USB 3.0 external hard drives and DVD / Bluray drives, all at the device end.
Indeed it is used in a number of portable hard drives, which reminds me I could use my hard drive cable to sync my phone to my computer since my wife lost the original cord. Never really thought about doing that until now, I’m such a spaz haha