iClever is a company known for providing charging solutions. I have spent some time reviewing one of their Boost Cubes, specifically a two port USB wall charger. A few weeks back, I spent some time with their three port charger, as well as having also reviewed their quick charger. Let’s see how this one faired.
LIke the other multi-port charger, this unit is a glossy and plastic white. On one of the broad sides, it has their company logo, while the other remaines blank. There’s the FCC info on the bottom that’s easily ignored, along with the folding blades for an electrical outlet, as well as markings around the two USB ports that indicate they both charge at 2.4 amps. This unit is somewhat shorter than the same size as the three port, so shaving off one port seems to have reduced the height about an inch (give or take). LIke it’s three port counterpart though, iClever has placed a blue LED on the inside, and a small amount of blue light is generated while it’s plugged into the wall. This is handy when looking to charge something in a dark room, as it makes the port easy to find. Fortunately, the vast majority of the light is contained when both ports are occupied. As mentioned before, the blades that are inserted into the traditional American electrical outlet do fold neatly into the body of the charger. Coupled with its smaller size, this unit is even more pocketable than the other, making it quite conducive to throw into a bag or keep in a car, for use on the go.
As I have done with other chargers, I charged both my stock Nexus 6 and stock NVidia Shield LTE Tablet, which sport a 3,220 mAh and 5,200 mAh respectively, As one might expect, the charger performed the same as the other, three port unit did, so it is delivering on its promise. I found that my phone, for example, would received a little over a twenty percent charge in a thirty minute period, whether or not the tablet was plugged in for the same block of time. I received similar results with my tablet, though oddly enough, it seemed to get more a charge while the phone was plugged in, compared to the test when it was alone. In either scenario, neither device’s rate of charge suffered for having to “share” the wall charger with the other. In this, the most important point of all, it was delivering as promised, handling both devices concurrently without shaving off how much charge was coming through.
So were I to boil this down, I’d be tempted to give it an 8, but I happen to prefer the three port charger. I don’t really see a downside to having the third port, even at the extra cost. If you need to pinch your pennies, or just abhor the idea of having an empty third port lighting up in the dark, then this would be the charger for you, and you can save a few bucks over the cost of the three port version. If you’re open at all to the three port charger though, I still think that’s the better of the two.
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