Our age of electronic connectivity has brought about a constant concern: battery life. The continuous development of mobile phone cameras and the popularity of social media mean that we are also chewing on storage space. When we first saw the Sandisk Ixpand charging board and storage, it aroused our great interest, so we had to take a look.

The device itself is a bit larger than many other single device charging pads. However, it is not ugly, with some sleek curves and a perfect size area, even large phones can be placed.

From a daily and practical point of view, it is a wireless charging pad for your mobile phone. The magic comes when you plug it in and pair it with the app. Ixpand wireless charger synchronization is also a physical storage medium for your photos, without manual storage management or continuous cloud storage costs.

There are two storage options (64GB and 128GB), which can relatively well meet the needs of users who take regular photos. The cost is also quite reasonable, 64GB is priced at US$169.00, and 128GB is priced at US$199.00. Although if you take a lot of photos, 128GB of storage space may be a bit insufficient, but a larger capacity self-storage option may be suitable, but it will be more expensive.

The wireless charger is connected to your Wi-Fi synchronously. When you are at home, the synchronization process will start silently in the background. This may be the biggest problem I have encountered-there are a few more-during the setup process, the time it takes to sync my photos is not particularly fast. When the phone is actively charging, the synchronization seems to run suddenly for a few days. After the first synchronization is completed, subsequent synchronization of photos is completely acceptable in terms of time.

In terms of actual charging, it is a Qi charger, which can be used with almost everything that has wireless charging capabilities. Maybe it would be better if there is 15W charging, but 10W is enough to provide you with stable charging. Depending on your phone, this is almost certainly not comparable to the speed of standard wired charging.

There are several key features worth mentioning, because they not only protect wireless charger synchronization, but also protect your mobile device:

What I find particularly useful is that you can use it without changing any routines. Everyone needs to charge the phone, and charging will trigger synchronization.

Before buying one of them, users need to understand some issues, let's start from the top.

The charging effect is very good, when you reach the "sweet spot", most people will be recognized by Qi charging. The specification says it is compatible with cases, but our tests show that certain cases do cause problems. We tried several phones on the charger with varying degrees of success: phones with TPU casings are good every time, and phones with manufacturer casings are also good. When we tested with a protective case designed for higher levels of protection, charging was not always effective, but it did trigger foreign body detection.

I also found that if your mobile phone and charging pad are on different frequency bands of the dual-band network, the synchronization is good, but not reliable. There are ways to separate 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz networks to ensure that this is not a problem on most routers, but this is not ideal in many cases.

Another problem that I think shouldn't arise is that if you choose to manually retrieve or view pictures, they will use MicroUSB as the PC connector. Of course, the cost of switching to USB-C will not exceed a dollar, and now everyone has enough cables?

Yes, for any future version of SanDisk charger sync, there may be several issues to consider. In fact, for many users, this is indeed a good idea and very practical. If you consider a premium 10W wireless charging pad for around $70, this is a pretty reasonable cost for 64 or 128GB of storage space.

Personally, due to several reasons, it may not be at this stage. If you are after storage space, there are cheaper ways to get it, such as subscription to Google One, $25 per year, 100GB-the difference between wireless charging pads will take several years to accumulate to around $120.00 (only) and one With storage. Of course, both options have advantages-with cloud storage, you can get instant scalability at a consistent cost, and with wireless charger synchronization, your files can be physically stored on site.

Charging is fine most of the time, but if you have a thick case, you may struggle a bit. For many users, these issues may not be a problem, provided that this is the case-I would not hesitate to recommend that you put them on the buying radar.

The convenience of not having to manually backup or trigger a photo backup cannot be overemphasized. This is a perfect starting point for people who don't necessarily need to invest in cloud options and don't want to pay large sums of money for options such as NAS. As we have already said, Ixpand Wireless Charger Sync can perform better, but there is no doubt that once it is set up it can work normally and meet common market needs.

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