Exactly.
If they just moved the pivot of the pins to the wider side, so it protruded 1.2" not 2.7", it would fall out less, that’s likely a small modification.
Future iterations likely much improved.
New Power Bank!
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I totally agree
Holy cow that thing is huge then wow
Yep compare its volume and weight to something else you might own.
I made an error earlier saying it was double the weight of other items I was looking at wrong column, but here you can see the volume of 9.5cuin is bigger than say the Powercore 10000 and its weight of 6.67oz is little more than the Powercore 10000.
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Where did you get that spreadsheet from?
All my own work. As Anker released products I add a row, its probably now including items no longer available. You can see the Powercore 10000 and the newer 26800 really stand out, and the new PowecoreII isn’t that amazing on its size considering its new design.
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Nice how about the speed 20000?
I don’t necessarily have every product listed, its as I spot them consider them. I bought the Powercore 10000 as its a dense/weight is excellent, if I need more capacity I use two of them (better than one bigger), and the Powercore+ mini for really small carrying days (although since then I moved to a mobile with replaceable battery which is even smaller). I got the Powercore 26800 cheap in that 50% discount code offer.
Personally, i’m not wanting speed of output charge or ports because I personally would prefer to carry 2 Powercore 10000 than 1 PowercoreII 20000, because I get the same combined input charge and 2 ports out is fine for me and its a lot harder to have 2 items fail than 1 item fail. This angst on bigger batteries is illogical, if you carrying that capacity it is because you NEED it, and if you NEED it why put all your eggs into one basket. I do a lot of backpacking type trips and weight/volume are my particular focus. If I’m happen to be indoors (say a pub) I’m more keen to make fast use of the mains power (so speed of ingest matters most to me) than speed of output (as the battery is with me all the time so do I need a faster output?).
I don’t have any QC items, and they tend to cost more.
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Thanks for all the feedback and thoughts. The PowerCore Fusion 5000 will most likely be around $26 on US Amazon.
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Woohoo! Thanks
I guessed $21 you guessed $34, so $26.
I’ll get one, but wait for a discount code. I am right now moving a lot all day and in my pocket is a Powercore Slim 5000 and an Aukey 12W and two Anker cables, with my mobile and tablet. Shrinking the Aukey+Slim will help with the bulk.
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Is this being launched at CES?
This is real world problem look at the power sockets in the office I’m at now. The pins orientation problem. With Anker current products the best answer is Powerport 5.
The Powercore Fusion 5000 in this desk can fit one socket, but in a aged wall socket risks falling out. If you made it flat to wall to not fall out, it could not fit in this desk photo.
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i like it!!!
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@nigelhealy I agree with you about the hotel situation. What I’ve experienced is that hotels like to limit the amount of outlets available. It’s bad enough that you have to hunt around for an open outlet but when you do find one, it’s always behind the bed or something BUT only one spot open. That leads me to gripe number 2… how the heck am I going to plug something like the Fusion in a cramped space? So, I’ve had to charge my electronics in the bathroom by the sink. Which, I’m not too keen on, especially when I want to use my iPhone as an alarm clock. Therefore, I’ve been saved so many times by just either using my slew of Anker power banks or the Anker Powerport 5 when I could find an available outlet.
On a side note, I just purchased the PowerCore 10000 and loving it. I toss it in my backpack to power up my GoPros, iPhone, and whatever else needs charging. The Fusion looks a lot like it and would be great but I would of liked to see at least a 10000mAh version. Thanks Anker for another great power bank 
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Different contexts calls for different tech.
I’m seeing the Fusion as a leave-home-for-the-day type EDC, you make use of any decent mains power sockets when stationary.
For the problems where mains ports are hard to reach, I go two different approaches depending on the gadgets and hotel. More expensive hotels have more ports and usually each side of the bed, so I tend to go with a Powerport5 plugged into the side of bed opposite with gadgets all recharged at packing. Cheaper hotels, well I may go with a 12ft mains extension cord and then the Powerport2. These are about the same size/weight in total. I always have the Aukey 12W as a backup/small so for example 12ft extension + Powerport 2 + Aukey + Powercore 1000 is then a fairly robust “system”. The 12ft cord helps in airports as often where is a seat isnt where there’s a socket and you can share power with others more.
I add the mah for the expected time off-grid. 5000mah to 15000mah usually does it. I might swap the Fusion instead of the Slim.
In the hotel situation you can also sometimes find the hotel Wifi is abyssmal and your cellular signal inside the room bad also. Whilst I usually have hours of videos stored, a use of an Anker Powercore is to place your cellphone by the window (or outside on the ledge weather permitting) to boost its cell signal, then tether over Wifi to another device inside the room, a basic jerrryrigged antennae booster. This drains the window-ledged cellphone rapidly so it would be connected all evening to a Powercore (the Fusion for example) and the other device inside would be wired to the Powerport, and then as sleep beckons its moved together to the Powerport. I was in Vegas recently and exactly this problem and solution. If you spot a theme it is diversity is your tool.
Hotel life: Be careful what you touch pulling back a bed, usually there’s years of …
I think the Fusion will be improved, such as a little smaller / lighter or possibly a bit more mah or more Wattage (its Anker’s weakest mains charger). If a 10000mah Fusion was to be made, I’d like it to be corded like put 10000mah inside the Powerport5. If they have to cut back the Wattage output from say 40W to say 30W for thermal reasons that would be fine.
Those who want more mah inside them a wallplug well, they’ll feel a bit foolish having plugged it to recharge overnight to wake finding it on the floor, or worse, soaked up the water in the puddle on the hotel sink surface.
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for hotel and airport outlet problems, i never travel without one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-692-W-Triple-Grounding-Adapter/dp/B000P9SXTG/
its small and portable, folks in airport dont mind plugging it in and sharing juice and it adds 3 outlets to those desk/lamp plugs in hotels.
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Never seen a wall charger with battery included. Or should I say a battery with an AC plug attached? I am assuming that the 5V 2.1A Max image from nigelnealy’s post means if more than one device is connected the 2.1A will be split between the two. I hope that is just when using battery alone and not while connected to wall outlet. With so many fast charging devices on the market I can’t see the logic behind any new product putting out less then 2.1A per port. However, I would love to test out this new product. Anker, feel free to hook me up. 
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Kind of.
The 2 ports when plugged into mains is max combined 2.1A, when not plugged into mains the 2 ports combined max 3A output.
The idea of combined battery+charger I’ve seen for years. They were always too big or expensive, I never bought one.
This Fusion idea is a good idea but I can see already how to improve it. For example once the internal battery is charged, the max output is 3A not 2.1A. I’m guessing in the size/weight engineering problems of not making it so big it falls out the wall, they could only fit a 10.5W AC-DC converter and a 3.7V to 5V 15W DC-DC converter inside. Thermal issues can only by solved by shape or size both a constraint of this size, as discussed earlier, having the pins on the narrow side makes it a bit easier to fit in constrained spaces but pulls weight further off the wall, having pins on wide side makes it harder to fit in constrained spaces, if you make the design more thermally efficient (less square, more rectangular) then it makes both these problems worse (it’s longer if narrow so pulling more, or its wider so harder to fit). If they used more custom chips to merge to make smaller or more efficient, then the cost goes up. Some clever engineering going on in here, and they’ll learn from this for the next one.
Still, I expect the version after “Fusion II” can be tuned.
The more likely is this idea in a corded design. Think the Powerport5 with a battery. Corded can be heavier and shaped more rectangular which allows an energy increase of the AC-DC and of the DC-DC and you can place these further apart to keep the battery temperature in safe limits. This is why say Powerport4 is 40W but the corded Powerport6 and the upcoming USB-PD can be 60W or higher.
So I’m guessing something like a Powercore Fusion 10000 corded looking a bit like a Powerport5 would be out in the not too distant future, possibly if this Fusion 5000 does really well.
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