Which PowerCore is better? I have read the differences and read reviews but I would like your feedback. I am charging a iPhone 5 and Nexus 6P. I think the PC 20000 with Quick Charge 3.0 is he better one. I wish Anker had a comparison feature on their website.
PowerCore 20100 vs PowerCore 20000 with Quick Charge 3.0
It would help if you could lay out your priorities, as “better” is significantly personal.
I keep a spreadsheet tracking the features and I looked at what I find important which is energy density (Mah/volume mah/weight) and these two products are very similar to each other, for my criteria they are equal so I’d be looking likely just at their prices.
They appear (the QC 20000 doesnt state its input) to be likely the same input so they likely take about the same 11-12 hours to recharge, so the main different is the QC output. Your iphone won’t benefit so would use the QC’s non-QC output and your 6P is QC so would benefit.
I’d say look at prices but from what little you said, the QC is probably the better for you.
What made me not buy these is their input is a little of a concern, so I waited and waited then got the new 26800 with dual input to half the charging time. I knew something like that would happen eventually.
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Thank you for your feedback. I wonder why the input is not stated. The selling point for me is the QC for my 6P. Why do you say that the input is a a concern to you? I will look at the 26800. It sounds powerful and expensive.
It seems clear from Anker’s main thrust of new products that most people seem more interested in connecting the portable charger for brief periods as their phone gets near empty, recharge their phone as quickly as possible, and then be happy to let the portable charger recharge slowly. That is fine if you get sufficiently long near mains to recharge, such as an overnight recharge option between depletion. That is probably the case for most people.
The 26800 is NOT what you want necessarily, it is faster to recharge as it has 4A input vs 2A input, but it doesnt have QC output. I’m sure if you wait long enough a QC version will come out, probably at a $ premium for a while.
As I said earlier, if you know is your priority then it makes it easier to weight the choices.
I just took a look (I’m in USA and options change country specific) and I see 2 very similar sounding very similarly price options of the “PowerCore Speed 20000 QC” and the “PowerCore 20000 with Quick Charge 3.0”
The 20100 QC isn’t listed now.
Bewildering or what!
I think the differences may be in all 3 of QC3 with Voltage boost with IQ? I think the higher cost has voltageboost added the lower cost one doesnt? Just looking in detail between their descriptions. Voltageboost helps with bad cables.
Read their small print.
As to cost, this varies enormously week by week and if you wait long enough anything can get a deep discount but right now the 26800 is the same as the “PowerCore Speed 20000 QC” and $5 more than the “PowerCore 20000 with Quick Charge 3.0”
I paid $30 for my 26800 as it was on a 9am PDT offer I got on the last day, now $50.
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The PowerCore 2000 w/QC3.0 and PowerCore 20100 are basically the same, except the 2000 w/QC3.0 also supports QC3.0 (backwards compatible with QC2.0) output on one port. (both are still available for sale through amazon)
They both do NOT support QC for charging the PowerCore itself, therefore expect it to take between 9 and 10 hours to fully charge using a 2.4A wall charger. (based my on use of my PowerCore 20100 and Anker PowerPort 2 wall charger)
And 20,000mAh vs 20,100mAh capacity is a negligible capacity difference.
Despite having a Nexus 6P (its an extra device at work), I never really understood how Rapid Charging with USB-C works… especially as it relates to after market chargers and cables. Currently I have my Nexus 6P enrolled in the Android Beta program, and its running Android 7.1. I just did a test… With the stock charger and USB-C cable (both were in box with 6P), the phone tells me “22% - Charging on AC 53 minutes remaining”. When I change to my Anker PowerPort 2 w/QC3.0 wall adapter, and the USB-A to USB-C cable that came in the box with my Nexus 6P, it just says “25% - 2 hours until full on AC.” So I could conclude from this that even using QC3.0 with a proper USB-A to USB-C, its not “Rapid Charging”. (I assume the USB-A to USB-C cable in the Nexus 6P box meets any specifications and includes the 56kΩ pull-up resistor). NOTE: by the time it got to 30% it says 1hr 37 min until full… not sure that 23 min had passed, but its still no where near what the stock charger reported as remaining time… At 40% it says 1h 19min remaining…
So based on this… With your iPhone 5 and Nexus 6P, you can expect the same performance out of either battery.
If you don’t mind recharging the PowerCore over night… either of these batteries will do the job. But if 9-10hrs is too long and you need to quickly recharge the PowerCore itself, you might want to look at other models that have a QC input or two inputs which allow them to recharge faster.
If you want to rapid charge the 6P, consider looking at the Anker PowerCore+ 20100 USB-C https://www.anker.com/products/A1371012 It doesn’t support QC2.0/3.0, but does support USB-C charging speeds of the Nexus 6P.
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Thank you very much for you feedback and input.