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4.0 out of 5 starsFantastic price, works as promised, photos not exact, but did not affect performance.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2020
The price for these chargers is great! They work as promised and my charging time has come down for my iPhone 7. If you still have the little cube charger that came with your iPhone 7, it's time to upgrade!
Remember, however, that a fast charge depends on three things: Having a fast charger (which this is), having a phone or device capable of pulling a fast charge, and lastly, having a cable/cord capable of passing a fast charge. If you are noticing that this charger doesn't seem to be charging like you expect, you may need to test your device or the cable.
You can do this by purchasing (at a reasonable price) a USB Tester and Load Tester. You can find these here on Amazon. These are the little devices next to the charger in my photo.
Here's a few things I found by using a USB Tester and Load Tester. First, I found that the iPhone 7 (at least our two) pull about 1.6 amps using a fast charger. That's because the phone itself wasn't designed for 2 or 3 amp charging (think of amps as charging speed, 1 is fast, 2 super fast, 3 super-duper fast). Newer iPhones, of course, are made to pull faster charges. The iPhone 7 came with a little white cube that maxed out at 1 amp charging. So, upgrading to a faster charger, cut down my charging time, but it will never be as fast as 2.0 or 3.0 because I have an old phone.
This means, no matter how fast a charger I have, I still can only charge at ~1.6 amps, not 3 amps (or watts, you can do the conversion).
I also noticed that one of our iPhones was damaged in such a way that it only pulls about .5 amps. And, by testing the cables I found that a couple cables were limiting the fast charge because they were cheap or broke or an older cable made for speed considered fast 5 years ago.
Anyway, I only docked the product because I'm a stickler for photos of products. I think it's important to have accurate photos of what we receive as consumers. The product photo has "Qualcomm" listed in most photos and not in others. The chargers I received say "San.Como". This doesn't not effect the performance of the product as far as I can tell. And if I could have given 4.75 stars, I would have.
Good luck with your chargers!
EDIT 9/27/20 - I said that one of my iPhones was damaged because it was only charging at .5 amps. However, what I have discovered is that towards the end of a charging cycle, let,s say at 95% charged, the iPhone was designed to slow the charge (I have no idea why, but I did read that somewhere). So, if you notice your iPhone only charging at .5 amps, check to see your charge percentage. If it's near the end, I wouldn't be concerned since that seems to be the way they are designed.
