Have both and both have their place. The Anker Cube is awesome for traveling and compared to the Belkin 3-1 nice and small for your night stand too. Everyone I recommend it too love it. But, also recommend the Belkin 3-1 too. And don’t think the Anker Cube is ugly at all.
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PSA: Anker Recalls Multiple Power Banks Due to Fire Risk
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The US trade-off to heavy regulation is the class action lawsuit. Unfortunately for consumers (or fortunately for corporate mistake-makers), public opinion is fairly negative when it comes to that relief mechanism. Think of the last time ‘you’ saw a press release that made ‘you’ eligible for a payout… you can imagine the common reaction.
The difficulty here is pursuing the class action award against a company from certain foreign countries in the US. Some foreign companies hold no major US assets (and hold few assets in jurisdictions that will honor a US award).
Cheap Chinese junk that rarely has proper safety certification especially for North America. Had a couple chargers and one usb hub from them over the years. Chargers got super hot and hub stopped working. UGREEN is even worse.
What do you expect of two companies that came to prominence by white labeling.
What do you expect of two companies that came to prominence by white labeling.
Which Apple power bank models work on anything but an iPhone?
You really think they would do an expensive recall of millions if there wasn’t a chance that Anker would be forced to issue a recall. They’re spinning it like they’re doing it out of the goodness of their heart.
Yup. All that abundance of caution language is textbook PR for a recall. They know they’re in deep doodoo. Will probably get sued too.
That's absurd. I use multiple Anker products. They look quite fine. And I've never had a single issue with any of them.
Regarding recalls, do you have any idea of how many recalls there are across all kinds of products? Strollers that are poorly manufactured and can injure a baby. Car recalls. Almost daily food recalls. And on and on and on. It's the cost of living in a world where money dominates and motivates almost everything. If everything in manufacturing is done properly with extreme care and diligence, there would still be mishaps.
I'm so thankful I don't fall prey to the hatred and hysteria and irrationality that motivates many of the comments here.
Power banks tend to be sold by small or no name brands where I'm skeptical they would even issue a recall or look into reports of their batteries catching on fire which certainly exist. While faulty power banks aren't good, I wonder if Anker issuing recalls at all makes them stand out as one of the better power bank companies out there.
What other brands are considered good for power banks? Ones that didn't ignore reports of batteries catching fire or somehow had literally 0 cases of fire, melting, etc. that weren't caused by user abuse.
What other brands are considered good for power banks? Ones that didn't ignore reports of batteries catching fire or somehow had literally 0 cases of fire, melting, etc. that weren't caused by user abuse.
keep saying it, will continue to say it, you own this brand you risk burning your house down. Complete utter junk products that will blow up.
In my opinion, this is a gross exaggeration and very misleading. Recall after recall happens with many different companies and products. Food, drugs, cars, and on and on. Anker has a better track record than most. I have about 8 Anker products. They look good and function well. Never had a single problem and none of them have been recalled.
So you're praising Satechi without even knowing if they make chargers or power banks. Talk about fake news. Absurd. I bought two of Satechi's keyboards. They are so bad, they are now in the trash. I wouldn't use anything from Satechi.
I have the 20000. Still works great today, I have two of them actually even though I rarely use them.
Same, thankfully it took about twenty minutes to get my replacement ordered from them (and a better model provided, no less) so I’m not too bothered. Process was very painless except I had to email directly since their claim page wouldn’t take my Amazon order number.
Is that the same Anker who is a sponsor on this site? The same Anker who buys articles to tell readers about sales? That Anker?
(For the record almost all of my charging bricks are Anker)
(For the record almost all of my charging bricks are Anker)
I could apply that irrational thinking to any company that issues a recall. So many people make an absurd guess and broadcast it as the truth. How sad.
A very reasoned, mature, and insightful comment without the slightest bit of hysteria or gaslighting.