Mobee Magic Bar Inductive Charger Review

/ Nir Schneider

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Mobee was the first to release what was then the world's first ever inductive charger for Apple'southward Magic Mouse called the Magic Charger, offering quick and like shooting fish in a barrel wireless charging without the hassle of wasting batteries and replacing them every other calendar week. The practiced news is at present Mobee'due south constant innovative thinking has brought us the Magic Bar. You guess it, information technology's the world's showtime inductive charger made to work with the Apple tree Wireless Keyboard and even the Magic Trackpad. How magical is that? Mobee'south wireless charging products have surpassed what was considered to be the pioneer of anterior charging, Powermat.

The Magic Bar sounds like it would exist the perfect buddy any Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad user could always wish for, but is it actually all that magical when put to the exam? Observe out after the break!

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Correct out of the box, the Magic Bar is ready to be used and comes with 3 key ingredients to get you started. You'll find the Magic Bar itself along with the inductive charging rechargeable bombardment bar the houses 2 AA batteries which you slide into your 2-battery Wireless Keyboard or Magic Trackpad and then screw on like y'all would when swapping out regular quondam batteries. It'll not work with the older 3-battery Wireless Keyboard. Very simple a toddler can do it. In that location's nothing to it really, setting upwards the Magic Bar couldn't be any easier and equally unproblematic as setting up the Magic Charger. Last but non to the lowest degree there's a nice long white USB cable included that volition connect to your Mac or Movie theatre Display and serve as the Magic Bar's power supply. Completely USB powered and I honey that.

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The Magic Bar itself is fabricated out of solid aluminum that matches upwards very nicely with whatsoever Apple product including of grade the Wireless Keyboard. On the other manus, the rechargeable battery cylinder the goes into your Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad is fabricated out of plastic and colored silver to match with the rest of the aluminum theme. Non a big deal and I must say that it doesn't have away from the slim and sleek design of both the Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad. Information technology'southward very low profiled and fifty-fifty looks like something you'd expect from Apple.

A red LED light volition remain on while the Magic Bar isn't charging up your Apple wireless device. If I had to nitpick, I would much rather take a much smaller status indicator similar in size to what is establish on the Wireless Keyboard. The status light is a bit too brilliant and obnoxious specially when working in dark situations. A green light will rapidly glimmer when charging which is even more than distracting and will most likely brand you desire to tape information technology over.

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Similar many of y'all out there, I use the Apple Wireless Keyboard religiously each and every day. I couldn't say plenty skilful things about information technology, I really do honey using it. Battery life isn't all that swell and while I exercise use rechargeable batteries, I find myself having to bandy them out every week or so and that isn't such a major issue for me. I also use the Magic Trackpad, yet I recently started using a wired mouse instead. The Magic Bar has only one purpose and that is to continue your Wireless Keyboard charged up while completely annihilating your bombardment swapping chores and fifty-fifty cutting down on costly batteries if y'all aren't using rechargeable batteries.

Charging couldn't exist whatever easier by simply sliding your keyboard or Magic Trackpad onto the charging station and that little bombardment nob into the left side of the induction charger to begin charging. Information technology works flawlessly each and every fourth dimension. The second you slide in your device, the Magic Bar volition instantly begin charging it. Bombardment life is surprisingly only every bit expert as the rechargeable Eneloop batteries I've been using. Mobee says you could go for 10 straight days on a single charge before you need to fully recharge over again, and I can fully attest to that after heavy everyday use. Y'all could as well place your keyboard or Magic Trackpad back on the Magic Bar at the end of the twenty-four hour period to recharge. Using the Wireless Keyboard wile information technology's existence charged on the Magic Bar is definitely another option as well.

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For the $lx price tag, I would have liked to encounter an extra battery cylinder included with the Magic Bar for those who do happen to be using both the Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad even though the idea was more than towards using one or the other. Additional battery cylinders are expensive at $30 a slice. The Magic Bar itself isn't very bulky but I would have liked to see information technology take upward as much less space as possible and have a similar size of the Wireless Keyboard'southward own battery cylinder. On the other paw, I found the Magic Bar to fit my desk-bound setup very well which has made me want to keep using it on a daily basis from here on end. That is until Mobee comes up with an even more than compact design.

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Mobee has done it again, bringing ease of utilize to what nosotros all apply on a daily footing. The Magic Bas just works, and it isn't magic anymore. Yes I would accept liked information technology to be slightly slimmer and an additional battery cylinder would have made everyone even happier. If you're looking to make your role setup, home setup and the likes, a piffling more comfortable, the Magic Bar will definitely get the chore done. I've just become fifty-fifty more spoiled cheers to Mobee.

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