Sharge ICEMAG
Until the emergence of Shargeek as a brand, we never had any illusions about a power bank other than charging. Now they’ve updated the brand name to Sharge, which is simpler and more straightforward. It’s easy to create stuff by following the same old patterns, but Sharge is an exception to the rule. They’ve virtually reinvented the power bank as a product category with unique design and demanding technologies. That’s why you can see more and more brands starting to put effort into their power bank designs and features. But no matter how fancy the new power banks are, it seems that they’re going down the path of imitating the ideas from Sharge. Recently Sharge released a brand-new power bank called Sharge IceMag, which is the world’s 1st magnetic power bank with active cooling.
It just became available for a good price at $59 US dollars on their store. Just in case you didn’t see the end message and missed this super cool power bank, I have to remind you here to check out the link here. It’s really likely to become a popular pattern in the following years.
Unboxing & Design
So let’s start with its unboxing. The silver box is designed in a stylish fashion. When it’s sitting on the shelf, you can pretty much get an idea of what the power bank can do from the box. It houses a battery capacity of 10,000 mAh with a maximum output of 20W via USB-C connection. For wireless charging, the maximum output can reach 7.5W.
Open the box, actually, we found it’s a compact white model instead of the silver image shown on the box. But when actually getting my hands on the power bank, its white frame looks pretty impressive.
The USB-C port at the bottom is for both input and output via cables. The back is a magnetic ring that allows it to snap on supported phones such as iPhones 13 & 14 series
Features
Well, the pocket size perfectly meets Magsafe-compatible magnetic charging. And compared with most MagSafe Battery Packs, the IceMag is a bit thicker. But actually, it has a very good magnetic snapping. No matter with or without the case, it fits snugly on top of the iPhone without falling off, even when I shake it hard.
The front face is covered with a transparent plastic panel, which we’ve seen quite a bit in previous Sharge products. The battery components are protected by a black kit, while at the bottom, the clear cover gives visibility to the battery’s control board, complete with diodes, capacitors, and microcontrollers, which is full of geek style. And the real star is the active cooling fan with an indicator light in the center.
It really takes me back to the Red Magic gaming phones, which have been proven to be effective over-cooling for gaming with their built-in fan. The air duct is also well designed with an air intake at the side and another air outlet at the bottom. The L-tyle convection design is great for extracting the heat of the circuit components and offers a more controllable temperature for wireless charging.
Once the power bank detects a wireless charging-enabled device, the fan and lights will activate along with the wireless charging, delivering a stable and efficient power output. We all know that most power banks including MagSafe models easily get overheated. Then they would be forced to stop working until they cool down again. As frequent overheating can damage internal components and batteries, the life of these power banks often becomes an annoying issue.
By far we couldn’t fully show you whether the IceMag can truly solve the problem, but at least for now, the 8000 RPM active fan is quite impressive over cooling.
As the fan was activated, we hardly detected any downtime during the wireless charging.
I’m pretty surprised by a couple of features. The first one is that you can turn it into a wireless charging pad, refilling IceMag and juicing up your device all at once.
And the IceMag supports charging 2 devices via both wired and wireless at the same time, which is really convenient for traveling.
The last one is for those small gadgets like wearables. It supports a unique low-current charging mode to juice up low-current devices such as wireless earbuds, smart bands or smartwatches.
Outputs
To give you a better picture of how it works. We tested the charging protocols the USB-C port supports. It turns out the fact that this power bank is compatible with activating fast charging for most brands’ devices, no matter for iPhones or Androids. We tried to connect it with various brands’ phones, the charging speeds are good and the maximum figure also matched what the brand said, which is able to reach 18W.
But this’s not amazing compared to other Sharge’s fast-charging power banks. The reason why it surprised us at first glance is still its unique design and the idea of adding an active cooling fan. The transparent design with a more compact body size does make it stand out from the crowd.
Verdict
And furthermore, as I’m sure most people would prefer to take it to wirelessly charge their devices, they would also go for it for faster and longer-lasting magnetic charging. For iPhones with MagSafe, it’s definitely the best companion for recharging, while for Android devices, though there’s no MagSafe for solid snap, you can still get it with a magnetic case. Even without magnetic snapping, it still works well with these Android phones supporting wireless charging. Now I’ve taken it as a truly wireless charging pad, a lovely part of my desk deco. For true wireless on your desktop, I would say the 10000mAh Sharge IceMag is the way to go right.
