The Poki 10,000 mAh power bank is a different feel of charger than most with a design made to be 🛡 pocketable and a capacity that makes your power-starved devices functional for far longer than you’d expect in something this small 🛡 and light.
The TL;DR version of this review is: surprising light, extremely pocketable, does the job, not my dream charger but 🛡 at the price it’s well worth it.
We’ve covered a product of Lepow’s before, the Moonstone. Like the Moonstone, the Poki 🛡 comes with a cloth carrying case that you can stash a USB cable in (it appears to come with a 🛡 6″ USB-> MicroUSB,) or chuck your ID and credit card in and use it as a wallet while you’re out. 🛡 It’s actually the first thing that stood out when I was looking at the device. The Moonstone is still going 🛡 strong with a friend of mine a year later.
The battery delivers a 90% conversion efficiency rating according to specs on 🛡 the manufacturer’s website. Most batteries go from the high 70’s to mid 80’s. You want to see a higher number 🛡 as this is how much power gets delivered with the rest being lost in conversion.
The Poki can charge and recharge 🛡 at 2.1amps. This means you’re not stuck for 20+ hours charging a 10,000mAh battery at 500mA. At 2.1 amp you 🛡 should be able to charge this in under five hours and with 90% conversion efficiency you should have around 9000mAh 🛡 of actual juice to spare. That should be enough for at least three complete charges from dead to full for 🛡 any smartphone on the market today.
2.1 amp charging also means you’re not going to spend ~7 hours charging a 3000mA 🛡 phone from dead, more like an hour and a half if your phone supports it.charging that fast.
If you’ve got an 🛡 M8, that’s about 3.5 charges. iPhone 6 it can charge about five times in a row, a 6 Plus about 🛡 three times, an iPad Air 2 evidently just over one full charge. It’s a very useful little tool.
As a portable 🛡 rechargeable battery it fails a couple of my “perfect battery” tests – these are it doesn’t do something else neat 🛡 (like include a flashlight,) doesn’t have fold-out prongs to charge directly from a wall, and doesn’t have built-in cables. It 🛡 also blinks when you’re charging it, however you can throw it in the carrying case and avoid nighttime light pollution. 🛡 That said though it is the perfect size for throwing in my pocket and going somewhere with.
The Poki also includes 🛡 a touch-sensitive power display. While it’s neat it doesn’t always register my touch, but it does the job. It sort 🛡 of reminds me of KITT from Knight Rider, or a Cylon, but not quite so cool.
The Poki also has a 🛡 10-LED power indicator. While I haven’t paid close enough attention to the battery as it drains, it does appear that 🛡 it’s calibrated at least somewhat close, unlike other batteries that stay on 4 (full,) and then drop to a blinking 🛡 1 about 12 seconds before the battery dies.
Did I mention it’s light? Just under 8 ounces. It’s the lightest bang 🛡 for the buck I think I’ve played with.
The Poki 10,000 mAh portable charger claims to be 100% compatible with all 🛡 USB-based devices for charging, so as long as you’ve got a charger cable, or can use the MicroUSB cable that’s 🛡 evidently included, you should be set with any device.
It’s available in a couple of colors on Amazon (white and black,) 🛡 but there’s a much smaller mAh version of the Poki listed on the same page in different colors for slightly 🛡 less, so be aware that they’ve linked the two products for some reason. It appears from the Lepow website that 🛡 you can get a lime green Poki 10,000 but not on the Amazon page, which is where the manufacturer directs 🛡 you.
The Poki 10,000 mAh has an MSRP ofR$79.99, but as most of those things go you can get it on 🛡 Amazon forR$30.99.
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