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I've also started buying Anker exclusively. Their chargers work with every device at full-rate, and their cables are decent. I have had the clips break on a cou

I've also started buying Anker exclusively. Their chargers work with every device at full-rate, and their cables are decent. I have had the clips break on a couple of MicroUSB cables, including the 1ft from a similar 5-pack. I had my phone attached to a battery pack and stuffed both in my pocket. The stress of bending the cable in strange directions messed up the clips on the cable. Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead).

vidarh 11y ago
> Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead). This is one reason why I don't mind if the cables aren't that difficult to break. I'd rather the cable break than my devices.
- organsnyder 11y ago
  It's my understanding that the entire spec is engineered this way intentionally: The wear items are on the cable rather than the device.
excalq 11y ago
They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Amazon link?
  - will_pseudonym 11y ago
    This looks to be the newest, most powerful out of the group: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YUJJM8/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YUJJM8/ Here's the full set of products: http://www.ianker.com/Solar-Chargers/category-c53-s1 http://www.ianker.com/Solar-Chargers/category-c53-s1 There are Amazon links on each individual product page.
    - toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Thank you!
  - beernutz 11y ago
    http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3OL5U8 http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3OL5U8
    - toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Thank you!
- oDot 11y ago
  Yeah shit here is crazy expensive. Nexus 5X will cost about $600[0] [0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.walla.co.il%2Fitem%2F2902979&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev...

vidarh 11y ago

> Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead). This is one reason why I don't mind if the cables aren't that difficult to break. I'd rather the cable break than my devices.

organsnyder 11y ago
It's my understanding that the entire spec is engineered this way intentionally: The wear items are on the cable rather than the device.

excalq 11y ago

They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Amazon link?
- will_pseudonym 11y ago
  This looks to be the newest, most powerful out of the group: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YUJJM8/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YUJJM8/ Here's the full set of products: http://www.ianker.com/Solar-Chargers/category-c53-s1 http://www.ianker.com/Solar-Chargers/category-c53-s1 There are Amazon links on each individual product page.
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Thank you!
- beernutz 11y ago
  http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3OL5U8 http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3OL5U8
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Thank you!
oDot 11y ago
Yeah shit here is crazy expensive. Nexus 5X will cost about $600[0] [0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.walla.co.il%2Fitem%2F2902979&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev...