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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 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).


> 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.


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


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.


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...


Amazon link?


This looks to be the newest, most powerful out of the group: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012YUJJM8/

Here's the full set of products: http://www.ianker.com/Solar-Chargers/category-c53-s1

There are Amazon links on each individual product page.


Thank you!





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