My guess for the price is $60-$70
Coming Soon: PowerCore Solar 10000!
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First Look at the Bottom! 
Impressions?
The bottom looks like it has Wireless… Does it?
Wish Anker should merge and make Powercore Solar + Wireless 10 = Powercore Solar Wireless 10K
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Cool, so the lithium cells get cooked from both sides, sun and wireless induction eddy currents?
Wonder if the warranty is 18 months?
Without mentioning a new battery technology which tolerates heat better, this will be a warranty nightmare.
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Sun & batteries???
Weird combination.
I never would buy such a thing.
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Correct, the tiny solar panel means it will only actually charge when in strong sunshine, so gets hot quick. It will require a long time in sun to get any meaningful energy so the cells are cooked for hours. The solar panel also is a semiconductor, not a conductor, so it is a semi-insulator so it traps heat in more than, say, a metal case made of conductor.
Wireless must pass through a non-conductor also, so for it to shed the heat from induction eddy currents, really needs to be in an otherwise all-metal outer casing, which the solar on the opposite side defeats.
Electromagnetic and Chemistry worst combinations.
Better to carry simply more non-Solar Powercore instead for a short trip, or carry a large folding solar panel and 3ft cable to your shaded Powercore for a longer trip. The Powercore are more likely to work when you need them as not cooked, the solar is more likely to work as larger so outputs in imperfect sun conditions, and the cable keeps the Powercore out of the sun while the solar panel is in the sun. Eventually the Powercore, even if cared for, dies after a few years but you then get another and use with the same solar panel which doesn’t age as fast as Lithium cells so you get more value in the long term.
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But it has a “modern green” touch! 
In this case it doesn’t matter if its a nonsense! 
My speakers are placed in front of me on the window bench.
Really good I have a roller blind to protect the speakers from solar irradiation.
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Good solar panels are currently around 28% efficient, so for every Watt of energy you get in useful, you receive 2.6 Watts as heat.
So say the solar panel on this product is 2 Watts, then it absorbs 5W as heat. Do that for say an hour you absorbed 9527 Joules of energy, which assuming this weighs 500g would raise its temperature 8C (assuming plastic).
That would lower the power efficiency of the cells by around 3Wh or around 10% less.
Happy for anyone to refute it, including myself via beta unit test.
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That’s an Idea : Testing!
But this should be a long time test!
I am sure you are right about the “watts”.
My idea was only it would not last long if
exposed to high temperatures which are needed.
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I have 2 similar products for years. A 12000 mAh and a 4000 mAh.
Let’s see what is new in this. Solar charging is very slow for these type of powerbanks (like 1 watt or something).
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Do you use those very often?
Though I am not a green,
I am always extremely open for such techniques saving resources of our nature.
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@Insider how sure are you it was a new product, not an old product you stumbled upon thinking new?
4 year old reviews.
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100% sure.
Are you using one of the Windows / Mac applications with scan unlisted ASIN?
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Hmmm, never heard of that…
wow! 4 year old … the reviewer has left a lot of pics, we could compare once the actual Anker powerCore Solar releases
good find @professor
Me too.
Seem @professor knows some secret tools! 
(ASIN is the id-number of amazon as far I know)
Do you know such ones under LINUX?
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I will start a new thread as soon as I have more information.
No all I did was a reverse image Google search for the image and took me direct to the old product. That’s all.
Insider is saying he’s not being told organically, so must be electronically, there are tools, not free ones, which will search for unlisted Amazon items.
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