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Snaptain P30 Pro is a 4K drone with GPS that uses brushless motors to deliver powerful power, smart flight and Return to home to make flying easier and safer, with a weight of less than 249g exempt from FAA registration. The new user interaction system and novice mode make use easier and faster.
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5
Fantastic drone for the beginner or hobbyist!
on April 20, 2025
Posted by: Bren
This drone is an absolute blast to fly and is honestly so much tougher than I could have ever expected. How do I know how tough it is? Well, I will get right down to business and tell you. Due to my user error and lack of judgment, I crashed this into the side of my house… twice, with hard falls from the crash from 6-8 feet up that resulted in it landing on the concrete. Trust me, I felt like a big dummy, and this drone–– praise be–– survived my carelessness! And not only did it survive, but I didn’t even have to replace the propellers! I am so beyond impressed that I just had to come right out with that information to let you know that this is indeed super tough! But now onto more info.
This is a great package for a drone. I love the included hard shell-soft exterior carrying case that is complete with preconfigured slots for the main components of the drone and even a handy and generously spacious zippered section for additional accessories like a wall adapter for your charging cable or even a portable power bank if that is how you decide to roll! The drone comes with extra propellors, screws, a screwdriver, and even extra controller toggle sticks for those uh-oh moments that come along. The setup was pretty straightforward with the included instruction manual, and I didn’t have too hard of a time getting it up and running! I just should have done my first flight in an open area like a field and not on my back patio… Yup. I know. I am just that smart, haha!
As for flying the drone, after toggling off the beginner mode, this is quite the acrobatic and fun little drone to fly for the price! One of my favorite parts about it is that it does not get excessively loud like some larger commercial-sized drones do, so I felt perfectly comfortable flying it around the park with my family and did not feel like I was disturbing anyone when it was up high and flying. I got about 25 minutes of total flight time with 15 minutes of it being recorded in 2.7K 30 FPS video, so I feel very satisfied about that! I am further satisfied that basic chargers and power banks work for charging both the controller and the drone battery. It does not require a high-wattage power delivery charger, nor does it use proprietary cables. Just good ol’ USB-C charger connections!
Some further info you might like to know, with some of this being obvious to people who really know drones well but perhaps not to others. First of all, this is not a toy. I would not recommend giving this to a child or irresponsible teen (or intoxicated uncle) as this is a legitimate drone that could cause injury, potentially lethal, in the right circumstances, and it is also able to fly high enough to interfere with air traffic and get you into massive legal trouble. So, fly responsibly. Next, this is not a “smart” drone. This means that it is not covered by sensors that will rescue you from your own carelessness. This does not have object avoidance or collision protection. What it does have are the basic and very handy features of being able to auto-land, return to home (where it last took off from), and it has a fail-safe power off feature on the physical controller that lets you completely kill power to the drone and let it fall back to earth in a dire circumstance. This also does not have any onboard gyroscopic camera stabilization capability. So, if you are recording in windy conditions or with a lot of movement happening to the drone, your footage is going to look choppy. Finally, a random piece of info is I had great luck with it with my very high capacity Sandisk 256gb micro-SD card. The recordings look great!
Overall, I am super happy to have this drone and glad to have it in my repertoire of fun electronics. I highly recommend you give it a try and hope you enjoyed the review!
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Turn everyday tasks into something special with Vivobook 14, your essential tool for getting things done easier, anywhere. It’s completely user-friendly too, with its 180° lay-flat hinge and physical webcam shield. Make all your days more enjoyable with Vivobook 14!
Customer Rating
3
Nothing spectacular about this laptop
on April 2, 2025
Posted by: Bren
I have long been an ASUS laptop fan. For example, their Asus Zephyrus laptops are some of the best blended-use gaming and professional laptops I have ever experienced. But this Vivobook… It just is not worth recommending at this price when the competition in this price range and a few hundred above has gotten so unbelievably good. I will be honest about what this laptop is: It is likely just Asus’s same $400 budget Intel Celeron or i3 laptop chassis, screen, and other core components built out with a few extra features and additional RAM that probably cost Asus maybe $20 more dollars total to add at the factory overseas, but you get charged many hundreds more without the benefit of an upgraded chassis, inputs, and ports. It is by no means a BAD laptop. It actually is quite serviceable and feels plenty speedy in 2025. So, if you got this laptop as a gift or for work, don’t despair; it will work for your needs. But if you are coming down to the wire on your decision-making on which laptop to buy, allow me to elucidate what I feel are some pros and cons of this device:
Pros:
-Lightweight and easy to transport with a compact charger
-Physical Webcam cover that you manually toggle in place.
-Good battery life, at least a solid 6-hour laptop with regular use on Best Power Efficiency mode
-Good temperature management (see fan noise in cons). Temps never exceeded 91 degrees Celsius during benchmarking.
-Excellent performance on web apps and productivity multitasking (Speedometer 3.0 score of 23.9, which is great in this price range!)
-Peppy CPU and GPU Performance on Balanced power mode:
-Geekbench 6 (GPU) OpenCL score: 11988
-Geekbench 6 (CPU): Single Core score: 2211 Multicore: 5434
-The Quiet Blue is QUITE a nice color.
-Reasonably fast SSD: 4287 MB/s Read and 1819 MB/s Write speed.
-Nifty trackpad with the ability to toggle a touch numpad on the surface. Nice for Excel spreadsheet or calculator work.
-12 GB of RAM is a better baseline RAM amount than 8GB nowadays, but it is also mentioned as a con below
-The keyboard has a nice texture and is pleasing to type on
-The keyboard has a better layout than previous Vivobook models; they removed the crowded page up and page down, etc., a row of keys on the far right and added them as secondary functions to other keys. This was a good choice in my opinion.
-Reasonably large SSD at 512GB. Plenty of on-device storage for most entry-level users.
-Physical Webcam cover that you manually toggle in place.
-Good battery life, at least a solid 6-hour laptop with regular use on Best Power Efficiency mode
-Good temperature management (see fan noise in cons). Temps never exceeded 91 degrees Celsius during benchmarking.
-Excellent performance on web apps and productivity multitasking (Speedometer 3.0 score of 23.9, which is great in this price range!)
-Peppy CPU and GPU Performance on Balanced power mode:
-Geekbench 6 (GPU) OpenCL score: 11988
-Geekbench 6 (CPU): Single Core score: 2211 Multicore: 5434
-The Quiet Blue is QUITE a nice color.
-Reasonably fast SSD: 4287 MB/s Read and 1819 MB/s Write speed.
-Nifty trackpad with the ability to toggle a touch numpad on the surface. Nice for Excel spreadsheet or calculator work.
-12 GB of RAM is a better baseline RAM amount than 8GB nowadays, but it is also mentioned as a con below
-The keyboard has a nice texture and is pleasing to type on
-The keyboard has a better layout than previous Vivobook models; they removed the crowded page up and page down, etc., a row of keys on the far right and added them as secondary functions to other keys. This was a good choice in my opinion.
-Reasonably large SSD at 512GB. Plenty of on-device storage for most entry-level users.
Cons:
-Plasticky construction
-Fingerprint-prone touchpad and keyboard deck
-Low-resolution screen relative to the price
-No touch screen at the price, which some of the Windows competitors offer
-Old Wifi Card (Wifi 5, not 6 or 6E, or 7)
-Loud fan noise that is present at higher workloads
-Non-backlit keyboard
-No USB-C charging despite low wattage requirement
-USB-C port is slow and not even Thunderbolt certified at this price
-The screen is dim and has bad viewing angles. It is really hard to see, for example, when it sits on a table, and you are looking down at it from above. At least the screen hinge goes a full 180 degrees to flat to help combat this issue.
-Awful speakers. Tinny and do not get very loud.
-12 GB of slow 3200mt/s RAM. Much of the competition at this price point has a minimum of 16GB of RAM.
-Fingerprint-prone touchpad and keyboard deck
-Low-resolution screen relative to the price
-No touch screen at the price, which some of the Windows competitors offer
-Old Wifi Card (Wifi 5, not 6 or 6E, or 7)
-Loud fan noise that is present at higher workloads
-Non-backlit keyboard
-No USB-C charging despite low wattage requirement
-USB-C port is slow and not even Thunderbolt certified at this price
-The screen is dim and has bad viewing angles. It is really hard to see, for example, when it sits on a table, and you are looking down at it from above. At least the screen hinge goes a full 180 degrees to flat to help combat this issue.
-Awful speakers. Tinny and do not get very loud.
-12 GB of slow 3200mt/s RAM. Much of the competition at this price point has a minimum of 16GB of RAM.
Altogether, this laptop is not unserviceable to use, nor would it be despised as a typical office-type laptop provided by a business to an employee. But it is certainly not a device that I would recommend to just anyone when there are so many good competitors at this price. If you are a longtime die-hard Vivobook fan, by all means, go for it! For anyone else, I would wait for a sale that better justifies the lack of features or look at competitor options to make sure you are getting the best laptop for your hard-earned dollars.
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The Shark NeverChange Air Purifier delivers all-day clean air with powerful, long-lasting HEPA filtration. Watch your air quality improve in real time, and breathe easier as Shark's PureShield Anti-Allergen filtration captures dust, pet dander, smoke, irritants, and more. Plus, with up to 5 years of long-lasting filtration, you can save big on pricey filter replacements.
Customer Rating
5
The best nursery addition for PNW Smoke Seasons!
on March 25, 2025
Posted by: Bren
To say that my wife and I are thrilled with this amazing little air purifier hardly scrapes the surface of our satisfaction! This air purifier is one of those rare “they thought of it all” products, where you can tell that the engineers at Shark did their homework and put every conceivable convenience feature into this purifier! We live in the smoky Pacific Northwest in one of the worst places in the country for air quality during the summer fire seasons, so it was essential to us that we get an air purifier before the next smoke season to protect our infant’s developing respiratory tract.
The setup was incredibly easy. The included pamphlet can walk you through the steps for some extra guidance, but the stickers on the outside of the purifier are also quite intuitive and give you a general grasp of how to set it up. Among the steps is the often maligned and confessedly missed step that gets posted on social media pages: you need to remove the plastic packaging around the filter cartridge! Gratefully, Shark put a sticker that covers the display that explicitly states to do this, but people get careless and shouldn’t blame the maker if they forget to do this critical (and somewhat common sense IMHO) step. Another step that I love to have the option, whether you choose to do it or not, is to insert the first included odor neutralizer cartridge, contained in a foil package to ensure freshness. Given that we have ours set up in a nursery next to a diaper pail, we are gladly going to utilize this and are willing to buy additional odor-neutralizer cartridges that are available for super reasonable prices from various sellers. A full odor-neutralizer assembly (including the reusable lid if you lose yours for some reason) is available from the Shark website currently for $16.99. This is optional for use, though, if you are looking to minimize your upkeep. I appreciate that you can turn the amount of fragrance up or down. We have ours turned down to the minimum as it is a pretty overwhelming scent on high in a 120sqft room.
The outside debris defense screen is easily removable and washable and helps a lot if you have a shedding animal or if your purifier is going to be in a high-traffic zone where it is going to be exposed to a lot of dust, hair, or lint. We have our purifier on the ground on the carpet, which is, admittedly, not the optimal place to have it, but it works the best for our arrangement. As such, we are going to remain aware that we will want to routinely turn off the purifier and remove this debris defense screen to clean it and to do common sense maintenance tasks like dusting the room and vacuuming the carpet regularly to prevent particles from accumulating. The front ring does pulse red if the appliance detects you need to clean the screen.
I am a data guy, and I love the screen and colored ring that gives real-time readouts of the air quality and its improvement as it filters. I love that the light can be turned off for our infant’s nursery to reduce the amount of shining light in the room.
Overall, for the price, I feel that this air purifier cannot be beat. I am requesting one for my office at work, and for any room under 250 square feet without excessive air pollutants relative to the size, this purifier will be great! For private office rooms, bedrooms, and nurseries, this is a perfect fit! The only disclaimer I will give in my review is that I am expecting, as a person living in a smoky area with poor summer air quality, to have to change this “NeverChange” 5-year air filter, probably every two years or maybe annually, depending on how bad our summer smoke is. That is not a dig on Shark at all, but just to speak to reasonable expectations for places with really bad air quality.
Thanks for reading and I hope this review helps to guide your purchaser decision!
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Introducing next level closeness from Philips Norelco, the world’s #1 electric shaving brand. Achieve lasting 0.00mm skin-level closeness and ultimate skin comfort. Day-long close shave, even on hardest-to-shave areas. New 360° Precision Flexing Heads for 20% more precision in hardest to reach areas vs predecessor. Efficient in every pass even on 1-3-7-day beard. Intelligently senses, adapts and customizes to your skin with Sense IQ technology.
Customer Rating
5
Best shave without a razor I have ever had!
on March 22, 2025
Posted by: Bren
This electric Razor is 100% one of the best electric shavers I have ever used, resulting in a clean, smooth shave that even my wife, who can spot a stray hair at 50 paces, was surprised to learn came not from a razor blade, but from an electric shaver! I have owned multiple Philips Norelco series trimmers and this one in particular does not fail to live up to the quality and ease of use I have expected. On top of all of this, this is my first ever SMART shaver. I never quite imagined I would have a little barber basically built into an electric razor and app combo guiding my shave, but here it is! It is worth noting that this smooth shave is a SMOOTH shave. Meaning that if you are prone to razor bumps like I am, you may want to consider playing around with the sensitivity and pressure settings and recommendations to mind a shave that looks aesthetically pleasing but meets your skin sensitivity needs to prevent razor bumps. Altogether, I am extremely pleased to have this shaver in my personal hygiene rotation and I am happily going to recommend this to my friends and loved ones!
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Professional-grade wireless gaming headset featuring 50mm graphene-coated drivers, 2-Mic AI Noise Cancellation and Active Noise Cancellation. Engineered with input from professional esports athletes.
Customer Rating
5
Finally, a headset worth of Alienware’s Name!
on March 12, 2025
Posted by: Bren
In over 6 years of doing reviews, many of which have included gaming products like gaming headsets, I have had yet to review an Alienware gaming headset that I found to be truly terrific and worth both the price and the name. Well folks, at last, here it is: an Alienware headset that is bound to knock your socks off!
The audio experience on this headset, even right out of the box, is phenomenal. Crisp trebles, clear mids, and rumbling bass are all present to a reasonable degree when listening to both music and gaming! I tested this song with Aurora’s Runaway and was taken into utter music serenade with the experience. My performance using this on my Windows Gaming PC with the FPS game Hunt Showdown was excellent with this headset. Hunt Showdown is a game with true binaural audio, and your competitiveness in the game heavily depends on your ability to track enemies’ footsteps and triangulate gunshots with audio cues accurately. I missed no beats with this headset and my friends and I laid waste to our enemies in multiple high MMR games of 5 to 6 stars!
The adaptability of this headset is amazing. The Bluetooth was effortless to set up with my iPhone 14 Pro, and I enjoyed taking advantage of this headset without the microphone as I ran around doing my errands and cleaning the house. The 2.4GHZ connection is stable and clear and, much to my gratitude, a gaming peripheral maker FINALLY figured out that a USB-C 2.4GHZ dongle does not have to be a gargantuan piece of plastic! As you can see in the pictures included, it is a tiny little guy; I was actually confused for a moment as I thought that, surely, this was only an extension! But, nope! This is the dongle!! They also have included a charging USB cable and a USB-C to USB-A adapter so it is ready to go for other use cases! I did use this with my PS4 Pro as well and was happily rewarded with excellent wireless audio!
The build quality of the headset is great, with very comfortable leatherette/vinyl-type earcups and a detachable microphone that actually sounds remarkably good right out of the box! My Discord gaming companions had no complaints about my spoken audio and my OBS recordings sounded great to my ears as well!
Altogether, for my first time reviewing multiple Alienware headsets, I can finally give one of their headsets a full 5 star rating and my recommendation!
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Introducing the performance V700 Neo: where innovation meets entertainment in the palm of your hand. Experience cinema-quality visuals with native 1080P resolution and 400 lumens brightness, bringing your favorite movies to life with breathtaking clarity. Say goodbye to extra devices—streaming content is seamlessly integrated, offering instant access to a plethora of entertainment options. With auto focus and auto keystone correction, enjoy hassle-free setup and consistently sharp, distortion-free images in any environment. Whether it's movie marathons, gaming nights, or professional presentations, the V700Neo redefines versatility and convenience, making every viewing experience an unforgettable journey.
Customer Rating
5
Unbelievably high-quality projector for the price!
on February 25, 2025
Posted by: Bren
The creators of this projector must have jumped ahead in time and come back with some good ideas for build efficiency and quality because this projector is exceedingly nice for the price in the market today and has some outstanding features that even beat out projectors I have reviewed that are triple its price!
First of all, the image quality is stunning. Playing 1080p HDR videos from YouTube such as some of the LG screen quality test videos, I was blown away by the standard brightness of this monitor on our 100” projector screen in our bedroom. The colors were truly outstanding without bleached-out white tones, and the screen picture mode of “movie” proved to be our favorite for visual quality. An interesting connection we noticed on the brightness settings is that the fan ramps up quite loud on the highest brightness mode, while standard brightness is quieter and eco is the quietest on the fan. This didn’t affect our experience too much either way, as the fan noise is not obnoxiously loud, but I felt it was worth mentioning to users. The auto keystone and focus correction features on this projector are also incredible. They are super precise and even for our projector screen that is at an elevated angle in our bedroom more than 12 feet away from the projector, it was able to pick up the borders of the screen and adjust the image to fit the projector screen perfectly! I like that one can also select whether to have it auto-focus and keystone with each start-up or move.
One of the standouts of this projector is the incredibly loud and clear speakers that are built in! I have not to date tested a projector that has speakers as loud and as sufficient as this for filling even a large living room with sound! While these speakers have no soundbar or bass-connected audio setup competition, I feel like the built-in speakers are perfectly sufficient for most users’ needs and will leave them satisfied. Further to this is the fact that this projector can act as a standalone Bluetooth-connected speaker for your phone or other Bluetooth devices! This is excellent and even further enhances the versatility of this projector. I could see how well this would fit into the use case for an all-in-one entertainment device for a small apartment or AV room.
Set up on this speaker was also super easy, and the Google suite of features are just excellent. I love that the included remote is set up for voice assistant out of the box and that you even have access to some of the most common video services of the day on the remote! The only negative I have, and a very small one at that, is the lack of batteries included with the remote. Come on, Vankyo! Even my daughter’s $15 electric talking doll included two AAA batteries!
Altogether, I have absolutely no problem rating this projector 5/5 stars. At this price, I just cannot imagine you going wrong. I have reviewed projectors in this price range, and I have been unable to find a competitor that has ALL these features gathered together in one projector! I 100% would recommend you give it a try for your entertainment or small business needs!
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The HP OfficeJet Pro 9730e delivers fast color printing, 500-sheet paper capacity, and handles files up to 11x17". It includes wireless and printer security capabilities to keep your multifunction printer up to date and secure, and is the world's only wide-format printer with P3 Color¹.
Customer Rating
5
Exactly what a small business or office needs!
on February 22, 2025
Posted by: Bren
This printer is an incredible value for small businesses or home offices that expect to do a lot of printing and scanning in the office space. Having a two-sided ADF is excellent and seriously improves the workflow of taking a large quantity of documents without certainty of whether they are coming in printed on both sides or not. The two 250-page sheet input trays are also extremely valued; on my previous little brother’s printer, it was driving me nuts having to fill the intake tray sometimes multiple times a day on high-volume printing days. It is worth mentioning, however, that the ink for this printer is extremely expensive for a full refill, costing around $120 if you stick with HP brand ink. I have not tried any generic alternatives, but even those aren’t a huge cost savings. As such, our home office has implemented black printing only at all costs to see if we can save on some ink refill costs. All the same, this is just the nature of printing these days and is the entrance fee you pay to be able to print in volume in a business setting. Thanks for reading and I hope this review helps your purchasing decision!
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The Insignia 10' Lightning to USB-C Braided Charge-and-Sync Cable (2 Pack) will not only charge your Lightning-enabled iPhone, iPad or iPod, but also let you transfer files and sync your device. Its 4 ft. length gives you flexible placement options, and its ultra-durable braided jacket keeps the cable protected.
Customer Rating
5
Exactly what I was looking for!
on February 1, 2025
Posted by: Bren
If you live in a house as I do with the comings and the goings of multiple Apple product users, you know exactly what is like for people to be clamoring for their turn to charge their phone or how they look when they are huddled next to a wall adapter with a short little 3ft cable greedily tapping away at their phone like Gollum coveting his Precious. I just wanted to acquire some nice cables that my wife and I could have for our own dedicated use with our nicer 20-watt USB-C adapters. Enter these cables. I appreciate the grip added to the port areas for easy handling even when I am fumbling in the dark at night to plug in my phone. The braid on the cables is a soft, gentle braiding that reminds me of some of the nicer laptop and mouse cables I have used in the past. Altogether, these cables are doing exactly what I am hoping for at a great price. I am probably going to grab a couple more boxes of them for the cars and camping trips too just to have some spares around! Definitely pick these up for your needs!
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The Klipsch Flexus Core 100 Sound System, powered by Onkyo, lays the foundation for amazing movie nights, gripping gaming campaigns that go late into the night, and streaming the next binge-worthy show. Powered by exceptional acoustics and proprietary Klipsch Transport technology, this 2.1-channel sound bar is the first step towards building the whole home entertainment ecosystem of your dreams.
Customer Rating
4
Small soundbar, huge sound, BIG price.
on January 11, 2025
Posted by: Bren
From the moment you start opening the soundbar, you can tell that Klipsch put a lot of work into making it a good experience for purchasers. The packaging is very descriptive and obvious, even down to having the remote and cables boxes labeled for your convenience! Furthermore, they used a piece of cardboard packaging in the box as a dual-purpose protection for shipping and to act as your drilling and measurement guide if you desire to mount this sound bar to your wall! All in all, really well designed.
As for taking it out of the packaging and hooking it up, it is truly plug and play. No, really, it is. I used my old soundbar’s HDMI and even the power cable (It is a universal two plug barrel adapter type) to hook up the soundbar and much to my delight, it was up and running the audio out of my system, including the full suite of eARC features that allowed me to be able to control of the volume of the soundbar with my Apple TV remote. This is so nice and makes for the smoothest integration into your set up!
From the factory, be aware that this soundbar comes with the Bass at ZERO. Yup, you read that right, zero. This can go up to +6, so I was relieved to be able to crank it up when I first fired up my music and hear that this speaker had some more guts to it than its factory setting conveyed. The maximum bass is by no means room shaking, but this soundbar is just here as it stands alone to get your setup started. The bass fills up the room with excellent low frequency tones and thankfully is tuned nicely so as not to have any junky sounding rattle on the soundbar itself.
The two modes the remote triggers are Movie or Music. I find that music mode really opens up the mids and treble range and punches out the vocals with distinction. The movie sound mode could be best described as providing audio that acts like a pseudo surround sound and blends the bass, mid, and treble ranges together beautifully. If you twisted my arm and asked me to pick one that I would leave it set to, that would be the movie setting for sure. Ed Sheeran’s song, “Afterglow” just absolutely fills up the room with “all the sound” at volume 30 on the soundbar and with it set to the movie mode. I was in a state of acoustic bliss, listening to the full range of the song as it swept over me. Being able to switch on the fly between these two modes is great and will let users tune each audio experience to their preference.
For movies, this soundbar is doing things just right. My go to for testing audio is the famous battle between Gandalf and the balrog at the bridge of Kazad Dum. The whole audio of the battle is projected with excellence from this soundbar. The incredible song of lament that follows as the party members of The Fellowship of the Ring exit Kazad Dum is so gorgeously projected in its range of the alto and soprano singing with the bass and tenors beneath of it. I truly got lost in the sound and forgot for a moment that I was reviewing a soundbar, not just watching one of my favorite movies, haha! The only thing I found to be off-putting audio wise after the song ended was the dialogue between the LOTR characters. I would say on Movie audio mode, the voices maybe have a bit too much “Sparkle” in the higher pitches of speech. Perhaps it was just my ears adjusting to the new audio experience of the soundbar, because I got used to it over time.
As the product stands by itself in isolation in terms of quality, I would positively give this soundbar 5 stars out of 5. For this price, however, I just can’t recommend this product to buyers when there are other soundbars out there with an external subwoofer included for the same or even a lower price. As far as my ears go, which are arguably more experienced at reviewing audio products than your average Joe, I am just not hearing where this is a $350 soundbar by itself. It would really need an external sub to be the whole package for a true home theater experience and that is going to set you back another $299.99 for their compatible model. A buyer would be far better off putting their hard-earned dollars towards a different system that can really fill the room with audio with a soundbar, sub, and possibly even surround speakers, as opposed to paying the premium for the name “Klipsh” inscribed on the front of their soundbar alone. I did notice when looking at Best Buy’s offer page for this that Total Tech members can get an extra $71 off as of the writing of this review. This brings it somewhat into a better range, but not everyone can take advantage of this discount. Overall, I love the quality present here that Klipsch is famed for, but at the end of the day, this review is about audio and helping buyers put their dollars where it will matter most. I hope this review has helped you!
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The Best Buy essentials 5,000mAh Magnetic Wireless Portable Charger for iPhone and Most USB-C Devices provides 7.5W of total power to keep your devices charged and at the ready, while a USB-C port can provide up to 15W to charge an additional device. With a 5,000mAh capacity, attach the charger to your iPhone or use the included USB-C cable for wired charging. LED indicator lights will let you know when the battery is charging your device, when it is finished or when it needs to be charged.
Customer Rating
5
Flexible portable choice for device charging!
on December 21, 2024
Posted by: Bren
I am very happy with this wireless portable charger! Although it does have a bit of a cheap plasticy construction, it lends itself towards being a very lightweight and portable. One of my biggest concerns when I first pulled it out of the box is that it would end up getting too hot while wireless charging my iPhone 14 Pro via magsafe. I am happy to report that it does not! This charger does not appear that it is going to be at any threat of ending up on an immediate recall list as compared to some of the recent Anker wireless chargers that got recalled due to fire hazard (yikes).
This charger is exactly as utilitarian as its price would indicate. It chargers my iPhone with ease and also has zero problem charging my Airpods Pro 2 case, even while it is encapsulated in a thick and very sturdy dbrand case! The little kickstand on this charger is awesome, allowing me to put my phone in landscape mode and watch a video on my break of lunch while giving it some extra juice to make it through the day. My maximum battery capacity is down to 87% on my iPhone, so it was important to me to get something that would allow me to carry some extra charge in my pocket without breaking the bank. This charger gives me all of that for sure! It is handy too that it has USB-C input and output so you can use a cable to charge other miscellaneous devices that require a direct plug in. It looks like it can do both wireless charging and wired charging at the same time! It also appears to be able to do pass-through charging, so you can charge this portable power bank while it is charging your phone or other compatible magsafe style device! This is handy in situations where plug-in options aren’t abundant and it would be handy to top off both devices at once. The only downer is that the USB-C port on my power bank is already very temperamental, requiring you to really sink that cable in flush in order for the charging to work whether input or output. As such, I am not quite sure if I would trust this device to years of longevity with frequent wired charging.
Altogether, this Best Buy Essentials charger is an easy 5 out of 5 stars for me! Don’t hesitate to pick this up for a quick and useful stocking stuffer for your loved one this holiday! Cheers!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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