Review: Twelve South Offers a Creative Solution to Wireless iPhone Charging With the 'PowerPic'

[H3LL5P4WN]

I don’t understand this product. It’s advertised as if the iPhone screen is going to stay on long enough to show the picture for a substantial amount of time. In reality, the screen will go dark,especially on OLED iPhones. Sure it’ll look nice when you wake the screen but for the majority of the time the screen will be black and just cover up picture

The majority of the time that my phone is recharging, so am I. So replacing the not-very-aesthetically pleasing charging pad with a picture frame, that will be just a picture frame the majority of the time I'm actually awake, is a good idea.

I honestly don't understand how people can be so miserable that they have to complain about everything.
...as I complain about the users on this post, lol.
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If you have lots of pictures around, I think this is an ingenious (although extremely pricey since it doesn't even come with AC adapter) solution.

For my money though, I prefer table lamp with built-in charger, such as TapTronics.

That's a neat lamp. But entirely unusable since I can't put a Hue bulb in it.

 

[nutmac]

That's a neat lamp. But entirely unusable since I can't put a Hue bulb in it.

Yeah the lightbulb isn't even replaceable. It should last around 25 years, however.

 

[DTECHQUE]

April fools came early..?

 

[gsurf123]

I bought two as gifts. They work perfectly for charging phones and look great. I don't know who would care about an image showing on the phone. The two people I gave them to have them in their bedroom and put them in the picture at night. It's a great product and I will be buying more. Sure you can cobble together a similar solution or buy something else but I doubt it will be as well built as this one.
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I’m trying to figure out how is thee iphone screen gonna stay on long enough to continuously show the image. We cannot completely disable sleep screen anymore. Sure it charges but it’ll just be a dark screen over an image in a frame . But at least the phone will be charging. I just dont see the practical application of this product.

The practical application is that you can charge your phone in a picture frame that does not look like a charger. Picture most of the time and charger when needed.

 

[iVoid]

Here's an idea: Let's COVER UP the picture in our frame we're trying to show and bought this product for!

Actually, what you could do is to choose the picture to use, print it out, put it in the frame, then on your iPhone you choose to use that picture as well and then crop it to match about where you put your phone.

That way at least when your phone is awake you see most of the whole pictures.


Would be cool if they had a lcd picture frame inside so it can cycle through a photo album instead of being just a single paper photo.