I was sent these a little while back now and originally said yes to them more for Steve’s benefit as he is the only one of us to have an iPhone. At his work, he is often sat at a computer for a few hours and often has to find a spare socket so he can charge his phone – not always ideal especially if there are a few of you in the office who all need to do the same. When I was told about these products, I knew I had to get them for him to give them a try. I was also lucky enough to be sent one for my phone too – so I could test them out too!
As you can imagine, the ChargeCard fits snugly into the credit card slot of a wallet or purse whilst the ChargeKey can be attached to your keyring. If you find carrying around a bulky phone charger a faff (especially when carrying around other leads such as laptop chargers and headphone chargers), you probably want to reduce the cables as much as possible – this is where these could come in.
They need an electricity supply to work – all that you need to do is plug them into the USB port of your computer or laptop and plug the other end into your phone and you are sorted.
We tried both the iPad and Steve’s iPhone with the Chargecard and my Samsung Galaxy with the Chargekey and whilst they work well, they work much better in a laptop or battery pack rather than a desktop computer – the USB part to these products is quite small so you would need something to support your phone or tablet whilst charging.
All in all, these are a very handy addition to Steve’s gadgets – he often moans about having too many cables in his rucksack so hopefully these will soon replace them for good.
You can buy the Chargekey here for $29 and the Chargecard here for $29 with free shipping on two or more items.
I was sent this product to review
Not seen those before but they do look handy. I wonder how quickly they give a phone a full charge?
Relatively quickly – ours charged within about 40 minutes which is a shorter time than our actual chargers, although not by much (mere minutes)x
I have seen these online and they look really useful! It's so annoying when the charge on my phone runs down
These look fab, ideal for taking to a festival (not much opportunity to charge in a field lol) I have seen comps around to win one but think I may have to purchase the way my luck is going! Thanks for sharing x
look fab, great must try
A brilliant idea for someone like me who is always forgetting to charge a phone
This looks really useful, I may have to research that too. Colleague at work has something similar more like a portable drive size, but charged enough to charge his phone at least six times. I wonder if the company makes something similar.