Anker’s slim 65W charger can squeeze in between bulkier power adapters

By wazup on August 13, 2024 Comments Closed / 56 views

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Scheduled for release later this year, the charger could be a clever way to utilize all the outlets on an already crowded power strip.

By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid.

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Anker has come up with a clever design for a new 65W charger that’s thin enough to squeeze between larger power adapters on a power strip, potentially making an over-crowded outlet useable again.

Thin chargers aren’t a new idea, but they typically feature a set of folding prongs on the flat side of the adapter, allowing them to plug into outlets behind furniture and sit flush against the wall. Anker’s approach is to instead position a pair of folding prongs on the end of its new charger, taking advantage of the thin design in a different way.

A short GIF demonstrating how the prongs on the new 65W Anker charger fold and bend.

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Anker recently announced new additions to its Prime lineup of chargers, and although this slim solution will eventually be part of that collection, it’s currently only listed on Anker Japan’s website with a scheduled release sometime in the winter of 2024 and a ¥6,990 (around $47 USD) price tag. There are no details on how it’s designed to work aside from sharing up to 65W of power between two USB-C ports, but a Japanese news outlet got some hands-on time with it and demonstrated the charger’s folding prongs in a video shared to X.

Given the prongs can also rotate from side to side, the slim charger should also be useable on wall outlets without the weight of the charger causing it to slowly unplug itself. That was an issue on older Anker wall chargers that the company has only recently addressed with a redesigned 100W compact charger featuring thicker prongs and an improved center of balance.