i think especially in light of the livestream that i uploaded earlier this
week it's going to come as a bit of a surprise to you guys that we have been
working on a new channel concept for the last few months that i think we are just
about ready to show the world the working name is ShortCircuit we're
gonna have a link to the youtube channel in the video description so you guys can
go over there go subscribe there's actually gonna be nothing on it so i
hope it's gonna end up being one of those hilarious channels with like a silver play button and literally no
videos uploaded to it but don't worry we're gonna have content coming on the
surface it's gonna look really similar to Linus tech tips it's gonna be tech
oriented unboxings first impressions things like that the reason that it
needs to exist is that sometimes we see a really cool product and we can't think
of exactly the right title and exactly the right thumbnail and then we end up
just not making a video about it at all and that sucks and it's not a lot of fun
so that's what this is we want this to be an outlet for us to just take
cool stuff that we're interested in and check it out so
let's kick it off shall we this is the pataka air quad and this is a third
party attempt at what apple failed to do which was to create a wireless charger
where their vision was that you were going to be able to take your air pods
your apple watch and your iphone and just
chuck them all on there don't worry about getting the you know the magnetic
charging coils exactly positioned right they were just all going to charge you
just grab them all in the morning and you're ready to rock apple abandoned
that we did get some third party options and i actually grabbed this one from
mophie that i could show you guys for comparison but what this one does is not
quite what apple promised so it does charge all your devices at the same time
you know you throw your air pods there you throw your apple watch there throw your iphone
there it goes a little something like that but if you don't line it up just right this is actually the one that i'm
daily driving right now it it doesn't it doesn't actually work okay so i'm really
excited about this thing then it's got an auto flip up watch charger position
free charging so they claim you can just chuck your phone anywhere you want on it
because it has multiple built-in wireless charging coils wirelessly
charge your air pods well i would sure as heck hope so four in one
wireless charger yes got it also one of those things isn't wireless because the
ipad charger uses a wire m 18 watt wireless fast charging sleep charging
perfect as an organizer so let's check it out
listen to that thing that is
built wow if you're into the chrome look i guess this is going to be right up
your alley if you want somewhere to keep the keys
to your bentley or whatever bentleys are kind of chromed out right yeah yeah ish
yeah okay what's something more chromed out what's a more chromed out
car than a bentley andy what kind of car owner is gonna be into this
the good news is that the super shiny part
goes on the bottom and all you end up with is a relatively tasteful chrome
accent and then like a carbon fibery looking finish on the top so i'm
actually a little curious as to how is
that oh okay i get it so if you don't
have an ipad and you're not interested in standing up your ipad here and then
there's a little slightly flexible usb type-c here at least you can just tuck
that out of the way and focus on charging your phone and your watch and
your uh airpods all right you get to build your own wall wart how does this go on
there we go that wasn't so hard and other than that just packaging oh that's
cute this must be their apple watch charger adopts patented flip up design
allowing you to take full advantage of versatility i always like to take full
advantage of my versatility even factoring in that some stuff's
going to overhang it the air quad takes up on butt ton of space compared to the
mophie this is a lot smaller not to
mention a lot thinner but i guess that's the price that you pay for having a
whole bunch of charging coils inside it also we still haven't figured out what
this dial does the usbc thing look at this oh okay so
if you've got a case on your ipad you can raise it up a little bit for
maximum penetration and then if you don't then you can kind of pull it back
it's a lot heavier it's a lot bigger it's a lot thicker but if the
performance is there then i guess it doesn't really matter so the first thing
i want to do is chuck all my devices on the mophie because i've got a super
convenient Android app here for detecting the rate at which a phone is
charging i'm not going to be able to measure the charging rate of the airpods or the apple watch but this will tell me
you know how much juice is left over for the phone when you've got all three
devices charging at the same time let's give it a hot minute here it's what the
kids call it when it's more than a minute you know i'm going to reposition
this a little bit i want to see if it gets worse or better we're dropping so that's clearly too low okay so let's go
back up this way a bit we want to find out exactly where the charging coil is
in this phone oh there we go okay we're getting right up there
and we fell off a cliff all right now it's time for the pataka
okay the magnet hold i wouldn't describe it as amazing to be
honest with you so you can see it grabbing on there
but actually i think the mophie holds better i mean
either way it's not gonna be a problem it's not gonna fall off by accident so i'm not gonna take too many marks off
for that but okay we've got our oh bloody hell this
isn't even a charging case who's got a charging case for their airpods yeah we
good now we got the wireless charging case all right let's try that again shall we
okay doesn't seem to make any difference whatsoever we're right around the same
1.3 1.4 amps attack of time that sounds
cool yeah protagotive you know it's kind of funny they say
well you can put it anywhere you want but like it's only about as big as a
phone anyway two things we want to check for here one is if there are claims
about it being able to charge kind of no matter where you put the phone on the
pad are true and two if it can even get close to
keeping up with our mophie oh we're ramping up this time yep we're right up
in the same range as the mophie 1.3 amps oh
we are discharging boys and girls you better go get that checked by the way
there you go so you don't want to get too close to the edge we're at an amp
now which tells us for sure we've got coils somewhere in this area somewhere
in this area and as advertised when we
put the phone right in between them it doesn't charge well but it does charge
so let's try something new based on what i've seen so far i am not expecting
there to be any wireless charging coils over here but
yeah no we discharging again how interesting i think we just figured
out why apple wasn't comfortable coming out with air power because even if
you're aligned with the coil there's still an orientation dependency here so
what pataka has done is they've said you can put the phone anywhere you want
as long as where you want to put it is
here and running this way not this way what
do you think david do you consider this acceptable for put anywhere as long as
it's no it's not charging like that that's
not put anywhere okay but what if what if so i've already got my other stuff on
here right okay now can if i can put it anywhere where it's
on the pad is that not put it anywhere and it looks
like it was an anomaly the first time it's charging just fine right dead
center now so like no you can't just like
throw your phone at your charging pad oh
i got it okay hold on so you can't just throw your phone at your charging pad
and expect it to start charging but as long as you take a moment of care and
put it on the charging pad as soon as you come over the edge here
it's charging how much is this thing 200 bucks
us so about 270 canadian
but i think i can accept that i should probably have my phone on the pad if i
expect it to be charging so i'm gonna give them a pass on that i'm actually
pretty pleased with the result i don't like how much space it takes up but as
long as you have the space it definitely looks and feels
a lot nicer one thing i think they could have really improved is the quality of
the charging cable honestly i expect a braided cable you know
i want to check how much the mophie is now too so this thing is
110 bucks i think that's a tough sell paying an extra
90 for the pataka solution you know what i want you guys to give me the verdict
200 bucks for this 100 and change for this or just don't be lazy plug in all
your stuff let us know in the comments below and let us know in the comments below if you're going to subscribe to
the new channel if you like this type of just casual unboxing
quick look format i'm actually really looking forward to it i had a lot of fun
doing this guess we'll see you guys over there