How about Anker? Where does Anker stand in Battery world? They are specialized in batteries, correct?
What on earth did Energizer just launch? Yep a Phone
Oh yeah, but Anker’s cells are more or less traditional cylindrical shaped cells packaged inside pretty cases. I suppose the powercore slim 5000 would be a good start to a real cell phone battery. Mostly, I was joking that the Costco brand (Kirkland) is certain to jump into the game if duracell and energizer do.
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Anker uses whatever high quality cell they can get their hands on mostly Samsung but some LG there are a few Anker branded 18650 and 26650 cells that are included with Anker flashlights but I doubt they are manufactured by Anker more likely they are repackaged Samsung or LG cells.
The same is probably true for lithium polymer batteries like the one that is used in the powercore slim 5000.
@elmo41683 would probably know best Essie likes to take things apart.
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This is really interesting! Android phone lovers will really love to get thier hands on these… Or may be iPhone users may just buy it to charge thier iPhones 
It is time may be Anker too got into phones 
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Kirkland this really have me a good laugh
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I first saw this a few weeks ago, and was blown away. I have a big battery at 4500 mah, but that makes it look like nothing.
It’s not the battery, it’s the battery costume that they’re releasing. 
It’s the battery pack attachment, inside the phone instead of clamped to the phone? I get that.
At 6,2 it’s a phablet!
Screen won’t be that great.
Chip is the cheaper slower chip.
Kids who this is aimed at won’t want to carry a brick… Mind neither will adults.
No headphone socket. So BT only… Or usb-c audio adapter required.
Part of me likes the pop-up camera.
Size isnt all that bad. I love my lg and its got a 6.1" screen, yet smaller than a galaxy note 9 (also same size as my old g4 and what this energizer should be). The phones that use all real estate on the front are still decent sized but huge screens.
The blue lines are for the note 9, red is my current one and green is this phones estimated size
Now we have a picture if it and this thing is a brick, literally
click the picture for the recent article
They took a 18k battery pack and slapped a screen in it and called it a day. Such a shame as they used old tech processor that can’t keep up with today’s chips, it could have been a big hit if it had the specs to back it up
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Thick as a brick! (Jethro Tull!) 
Wow…thick as a brick and no headphone jack
Doubt we would have to worry about it bending…you also get an arm workout to boot while lifting it to your ear 
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Sheesh… I’m afraid it would break my foot if I dropped it! 
I know people that wouldn’t care about the size and ugliness, and weight.
They’d call it, a festival phone. It’ll last the festival, no one would want to steal it, and it’ll do FB/emails etc (even if slowly… Mind being on O2, I’m used to slow speeds!).
Prob too heavy for.old people, who.like to leave at home and not use it, as it’s just for emergencies! Prob be flat by then, but… lol
I like the fact it can be used as a batterypack to charge other devices, which would probably be my only use for it and if need be I have a phone I can use too since it’s built in
I meant the phone not you Tank you handsome bastard 
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I mean I know I’m a beast, but that just had me rolling
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I believe I can use the term hideous and call it a day… Yea 
They’re not stopping with this abomination either!!
https://www.gsmarena.com/energizer_power_max_p8100s-pictures-9590.php
10,000 mAh battery in this one, and only €900 - much more like it…