Anker MagGo 622
A portable, convenient battery with great features that actually enhance the user experience.
- Design
- Ease of use
- Price
One snap to charge your iPhone series 12 or 13 with MagSafe
In my opinion, you can never have enough portable charging options. I love that MagSafe charging is now available for iPhones (series 12 and higher) because it makes accurate charging easier. Since I’ve been using a MagSafe charger with my iPhone 12 Pro I’ve not had any ‘miss’ charges as I do with my standard wireless charging pad. There is nothing more frustrating than waking up in the morning thinking your phone should be charged only to find that it has less battery than when you put it on the charger. MagSafe chargers make sure that little mistake doesn’t happen. One such charger is the MagGo 622 Magnetic Battery by Anker.
DETAILS
The Anker 622 Magnetic Battery MagSafe (MagGo) is a 5000mAh foldable magnetic battery that also features USB-C for charging connected devices or recharging itself. It’s specifically designed for the iPhone 12/13 series phones and is available in five different colors (Dolomite White, Interstellar Gray, Buds Green, Misty Blue, Lilac Purple). The battery has a built-in foldable kickstand that can prop the phone into a vertical or horizontal viewing angle.
The magnet is strong and is designed to ensure perfect alignment with your phone’s charging area so that you receive an efficient charge. The battery is slim and compact – only 0.5 inches thick – so that you can continue using the phone while it’s connected. The battery utilizes Anker’s Mini Cell technology to reduce the size of the battery without compromising power and charging efficiency. The battery retails for around $60.
USER EXPERIENCE
The battery comes in a plain, Anker-branded box. The front of the box is white with some blue accents including the Anker logo and the back has the model information on it. Because of the retailer, the battery came from, it has a large barcode sticker placed on top of the standard label on the back of the box. So, it’s impossible for me to read the rest of the label, but I can see that the model number is A1611.
When you pull the battery out of the box, you will find it in a place tray that also houses the user manual and USB-C charging cable. The USB-C cable is short and very durable. I’ve always liked the cables that come standard with Anker products and never had any issues with them working properly. The user manual is multilingual and it depicts how to charge your device wirelessly while recharging the battery simultaneously as well as how to charge a phone or earbuds using a charging cable and recharging the portable charger alone.
The battery pack itself is very compact. It’s about half the size of my iPhone 12 Pro, but it does have a little bit of weight to it. One of the features I really love about this battery is its fold-out, magnetic kickstand. It’s a very unique design feature and it’s actually very helpful. It gives you the option to be able to have a charging stand without having it be a permanent fixture on your desk.
When I first saw the foldable flap, I wasn’t 100% sure how it was going to work until I saw a little groove on the back of the battery. Anker made it very easy to place the kickstand by including that little notch. Once you get the top part of the kickstand in that notch, the rest of the flap falls into place easily. The stand is sturdy, but when the phone is connected to the battery, the entire assembly can become top-heavy and get knocked over quite easily.
Out of the box, the battery did have a charge. There are five LED indicator lights on the bottom that show the different levels of charge on the battery. When I pressed the power button to see what kind of battery level it had, two of the lights lit up indicating that it have a 50% charge. The fifth LED is the light that shows that the phone is actually charging.
As a test, I connected my phone wirelessly to the MagGo battery and let it charge for 40 minutes. Every ten minutes, I did a status check on it to check the progress of the charge and noted the progress of the phone’s charging. After the 40 minutes had elapsed, I calculated the total percentage gained and divided that by the total number of minutes the phone was charging to get the charging rate. In this case, the overall charging rate was 0.575% per minute.
This isn’t a bad charging rate for a wireless charge. I do notice that after the 40 minutes were over, the battery was quite warm to the touch, but it cooled off quickly. I also noticed that the initial charging rate (the first ten minutes) was faster than the overall charging rate (0.8% per minute vs. 0.575% per minute). Since the battery did not reach 80% (that’s typically when trickle charging starts happening), I don’t really know a reason for the slow down, but it’s not a dealbreaker for me.
CONCLUSION
The Anker 622 Magnetic Battery is a gem of a portable charger. It’s convenient, powerful, and an efficient charger. I also really like the look of it and the fact that it comes in different color variations. It’s a creative charger for an on-the-go personality.
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