![]() That’s good news if you’re looking to cut down on clutter or searching for a device that’s easy to pack for travel. ![]() The MagSafe’s charging bed is the size and shape of a decent-sized cookie (bigger than an Oreo but smaller than anything I’d bake at home) and permanently connected to a cable a little over 3 feet long. In true Apple fashion, the design is clean and simple. By comparison, the Samsung charger fully powered the 11 Pro Max in 2 hours and 15 minutes and the S10 in 2 hours and 45 minutes. It took our testers a total of 5 hours and 22 minutes to fully charge the 11 Pro Max and 5 hours to power up the S10. While the MagSafe technically can do that, too, as Apple admits, it’s not nearly as fast at refueling anything outside the iPhone 12 family. The upside of Samsung’s device is that you can easily use it to charge myriad phone models. ![]() And after the first hour of charging, it also had the phone’s battery up to 50 percent. The Samsung charger was just a touch slower than the MagSafe, fully powering the 12 Pro in 2 hours and 45 minutes. Qi (pronounced “chee”) is an almost universal charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium. Like the MagSafe, it can produce up to 15 watts of power, but it’s designed to work with any Qi-compatible smartphone. To get a comparison, our experts recharged the phone using a Samsung stand charger, $80, that we had tested earlier this year. After that, the process slows down a bit, likely to put less strain on the battery and prolong its life. It’s worth noting that the charger performs faster right out of the gate filling the battery up 50 percent in an hour flat. As noted above, the MagSafe charger, which can kick out a maximum of 15 watts when connected to Apple’s 20-watt wall adapter (sold separately for $20), managed to take an iPhone 12 Pro from completely dead to fully charged in 2 hours and 37 minutes.
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