Antec & AMP Products Showcases - Value Gaming Case & Mobile Accessories Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is
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linkis in antech Suite they've got some
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cases and some case fans and power supplies and my voice is totally totally
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gone by now we're pretty far into the show I've done a lot of talking so we're
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going to start with the fan so they've actually updated their fan Line This is
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the true quiet Pro right here this one I've looked at before it's extremely
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quiet truly and it's really nothing new
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this is the true quiet LED 120 mm so
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this guy right here has four LEDs looks kind of cool it's not quite as
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sophisticated as the true quiet Pro so you can see it doesn't have that moving
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outer frame so you don't have those larger blades but it is sort of a less
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expensive option and as far as led fans go it's kind of hard to find high
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quality ones and this would fill in that Gap this guy right here don't worry they
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don't sound like that I got something caught in the blades this one right here
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is the true quiet UFO so it comes in a variety of colors and what's cool about
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them is that it's actually not a colored piece of plastic they are all clear
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plastic but once you actually power them up they have colored LEDs that make them
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glow the way that they do they have these extremely gorgeous silicon
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isolating mounts here in the corner you can see how soft and supple and the
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delicious those are you know kind of you okay this has gotten awkward we're going
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to move along um next let's move over to
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power supplies here I'll say nothing so you don't have to hold that
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there so one of the show pieces here is the high current Pro 1300 Platinum now
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they've got sort of a bunch of their other stuff High current Pro 1,000 Platinum which we've looked at which is
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outstanding their High current gamer series High current Platinum Series but
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this guy if you know anything about power supplies if you've ever read
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review on Johnny Guru you'll know how impressive it is when I show you guys a
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how clean the internals are you know you can't see any sort of mess no wires I
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mean where are all the wires inside this thing right now check this out fully
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modular power supply OC link which actually allows you to link up two of
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these things for a total of 2.6 kilow of
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power just for the lulls right in case you needed that I'm flip this over here
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flip this over here hold on hold on it's not the impressive part yet bam check
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that out when have you ever seen traces that
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clean on the bottom of a power supply so an's whole thing about this guys is this
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is state of the art manufacturing has all the features that you could possibly
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want because of the 80 plus Platinum certification that means it's basically
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up to 95% efficiency in places where they use 230 volt power and just yeah
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awesome manufacturing on that one so let's move on to this guy p280 white
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with a twist with window twist to be specific
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so I've got a couple of looks like they put the demo back together wrong there's
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two mismatched thumb screws you're going to end up with these ones with the plastic coating on the outside not the
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other kind that I have here so what they've done with the black one is they
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or with the white one rather is they've added a window they have kept the noise
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isolating material the 270° opening door and they've left black on the case as an
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accent so you still have the removable fan filter not a whole lot has changed
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from the p280 just the color scheme has kind of that Stormtrooper look that
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people seem to really really like and the side panel holy crap we finally have
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an antech P something8 something serious
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case with a side window I've been asking for this for
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years years I've been asking for this and they've finally done it and to keep
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in line with their philosophy of quiet Computing on the P2 PX 8X series of
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cases uh they've gone with instead of just a regular window they've gone with
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a clean look no rivets no no holes drilled so they're using a 3M Adhesive
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to adhere the window to the side panel and they're actually this is all acrylic
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so it goes the entire the entire length and width of the panel so what that
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means is it adds some rigidity it adds an additional layer for sound dampening
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and it just adds some sort of overall heft to the case that it otherwise
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wouldn't have other than that we've got a bone stock p280 looks really sharp
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with the white and black color scheme but it is time to move on to the next
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thing so this one we're going to play a little game the game is called guess how
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much this costs so in terms of features
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this case over here is I'm going to move over this way this
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case right here is the gx700 so in terms of the actual features
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it's very similar to the M100 here which is a military green styled 1100
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basically where they've changed the top fans to dual 120 so that it can
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accommodate a radiator so this guy right here has a bunch of really cool stuff
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going for it you got front USB 3 front USB 2 you got fan control with three
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positions built in under like a sort of I don't know missile release sort of
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system here it accommodates a top 240 mm
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radiator these are kind of neat check this out so it's actually got little
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Clips in the front that are not just for looks these will actually lock your
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Optical Bay into place just by sliding it in here's something cool as well so
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guys remember we're playing the the ho guess how much it cost game and I want
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you to post what you think before I actually finish solid pieces of metal so
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the front panel is actually metal not only on the 5 and 1/4 in Baye but also
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this piece right here that attaches with four four thumb screws where you can
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access the fan filter even this badge right here is metal and you can easily
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pop it off and replace it with something else if you want let's go ahead and open
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this case up so other than that it looks sort of pretty pretty standard I guess
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seven expansion slots rear 120 mm fan
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sorry let me get out of your way Diesel have a look at that I'm going to go ahead and pop this side panel off so you
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got a rear fan mount it actually comes with three fans so two 140s in the top
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and 120 in the back inside you find a
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big CPU cutout you've got sort of the typical antech uh toolless sliders for
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your drives so there's five of those included they mount either a 3 and 1
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half or a 2 and2 inch Drive ATX compatibility sort of yeah about what
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about what you'd expect for a gaming case so you know very meshy very cooling
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um the price for this thing is
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5950 think about that for a minute hold on let that process the price is 59.50
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so antech is going after people who want uh a featur rich case and are willing to
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compromise on things like how heavy it is and how much it costs antech has on
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display in their Suite not just cases power supplies and all the stuff that we
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know them for but also the antec mobile products lineup so we're going to start
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with the pulse this is something that's quite new it comes in a wide variety of
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different colors in fact what we have here in front of me isn't anywhere near
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how many are available it's comes in at4 99 this is a Bluetooth 3.0 headset this
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these are they are using leather for the top headband and one thing I'd like to
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note is that in spite of the plastic design and construction up here they've
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actually added more padding on the top headband than I'm typically used to
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seeing and that coupled with the fact that it is extremely light makes it
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comfortable even though I was actually I had to wait for my meeting for a little
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while so I just put them on just for the lulls to see uh to see how long it to
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see how long it would take before they'd get uncomfortable and I didn't actually have any issues with them whereas I
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often even on my parot PHS I find them to be uncomfortable after about 15
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minutes or so on the side you've got volume control as well as your pairing
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button and you've got uh sorry what was
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the size of the drivers in this
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one yeah they're working on it okay so you've got a pass through using 3.5 mil
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as well as a charging cable here so this is neat because when you're on an
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airline and you can't use wireless you can use it with a 3.5 mil Jack and this
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will give you about 6 hours of battery life so there's 's your button for
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taking calls and this is pretty much what it looks like once you put it on I
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think this is my color you know I'm a I'm an Autumn or you know whatever the
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terminology is for that moving right along we've got the sp1 I've talked
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about this before basically it's kind of like a jam box but more better um in
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sort of yeah every possible way much better sound quality this right here has
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no name and doesn't exist for all you
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guys know here is the uh the pairing button on the back power in as well as a
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3.5 mm in put and this thing is just
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ridiculous I love it uh they've put much larger much higher quality drivers in
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it's more of a proof of concept that the factory can produce this and anything
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else and before we leave here I'm totally going to ask to leave with it
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but I'm probably going to get shot down so love to have something like that this
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is great for traveling with whereas this is the kind of thing that you could
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actually legitimately put in your living room and use as just a a random sort of
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Bluetooth speaker moving over here we've talked
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about the iso we've talked about the DBS here I'll let's take this from you uh
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this is the gain so this is kind of like the iso except that you're not tied to
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the headphones that it comes with so this allows you to take any headphone or
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headset and use it as a Bluetooth
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headphone or headset very cool stuff so you got track skip volume up and down as
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well as the ability to take calls and hang up calls it lasts for about 6 hours
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on battery and it comes with free earbuds although the thing that I'm more
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interested in inside this box is definitely this guy because it gives you the flexibility to to use the equipment
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that you're more comfortable with versus having to deal with some kind of a
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built-in solution so you have the earbuds you know you like you know you
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prefer them then go ahead and stick with this next I'd like to move over into the
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antech mobile products charging products so these are we've seen these before
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everyone's seen these before but these ones are a little bit unique I mean anc's background is power supplies so
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these have all of the industrial protections that they're typically accustomed to including with a computer
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power supply you've got over voltage protection overheat protection over
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current protection and unlike again so it comes down to that true power message
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that they keep throwing at the power supplies it comes down
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to actually delivering the say you know
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the the amperage that they claim as well as the capacity that they claim with
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these things so this guy right here is able to charge up to four devices
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simultaneously and has 2 amps of output
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so that means that you can actually charge your devices much faster diesel
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in particular has a Galaxy Note 2 and he's found that the charging rates with
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1 amp devices are absolutely anemic compared to what he's able to achieve
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with a 2 Amp device so this guy right here is only two ports but is also
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capable of two amps this guy right here is just a car charger so you know you
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got all those protections that are included with it I mean another thing that antech brought up to us is they
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have a a much more intelligent sort of design than we've seen with sort of the
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the the Cheapo OEM ones for example it'll automatically turn off if you have
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a cable plugged in but nothing actually plugged into the other end not all of
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them do that it'll stop charging your device once it detects that it's
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actually full so that puts less strain on your battery and reduces the risk of
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any kind of an electrical problem because if a device is off then it's not
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going to cause a problem so this is the power up 3000 so this is going to charge
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your iPhone twice and this is the power up 6,000 which is going to charge your
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iPhone four times and you can see for size actually I should probably be doing
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an iPhone comparison if I'm going to bring up an iPhone while I talk about something that's a mobile prod and
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iPhone related so it's about that big I think that pretty much wraps it up
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