{"id":31730,"date":"2021-02-25T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31730"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:29:53","slug":"anker-powercore-magnetic-5k-wireless-power-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/25\/anker-powercore-magnetic-5k-wireless-power-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5K Wireless Power Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/23\/anker-magsafe-battery-pack\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/23\/anker-magsafe-battery-pack\/\"><p>First previewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/01\/11\/anker-magnetic-series-accessories\/\">at CES 2021<\/a>, the PowerCore battery pack magnetically attaches to the back of any iPhone 12 model and provides 5W of wireless charging. With a 5,000 mAh capacity, the battery pack is capable of charging the iPhone 12 mini from 0% to 100%, the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro from 0% to around 95%, and the iPhone 12 Pro Max from 0% to 75%, according to Anker. The battery pack itself recharges via USB-C.<\/p><p>While the battery pack is compatible with the MagSafe system, it is not an official accessory, so charging is limited to 5W. Apple&rsquo;s rumored MagSafe battery pack would likely be able to charge an iPhone 12 model at up to 15W, in line with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/19\/hands-on-magsafe-charger\/\">MagSafe Charger<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty cool, although I wonder whether the battery is thick enough to get in the way of the camera lens. You can also use the USB-C jack to charge other devices or the iPhone itself (more efficiently than wireless). Presumably you can also use a single cable to charge the PowerCore at the time time it&rsquo;s charging the phone.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/magsafe-2020\/\">MagSafe 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/iphone-6s-smart-battery-case\/\">iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: First previewed at CES 2021, the PowerCore battery pack magnetically attaches to the back of any iPhone 12 model and provides 5W of wireless charging. With a 5,000 mAh capacity, the battery pack is capable of charging the iPhone 12 mini from 0% to 100%, the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-26T01:29:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"73fc7471-2ab0-4cb0-bdb5-6fd5c3bc951b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-26T01:29:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ac_x0cSqwTLC9tW_Vw7yVGw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1530,1837,85,1999,365,280,1154],"class_list":["post-31730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anker","tag-ios-14","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-12","tag-magsafe","tag-power","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31731,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions\/31731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}