Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock with Qi2 Review: Bedside Power

Ever wanted a Dalek near your bed to charge up your iPhone and Apple Watch? Belkin has you sorted.

Score: 3/5

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In this review

Design
Performance
Conclusion

Design

Belkin has a mania for highly descriptive titles; if you read “Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock”, you’ve read nearly everything you need to know about this particular charger.

It has two functions, they’re both to do with wirelessly charging, and it’s a dock… which is to say that it’s rather heavy.

Unlike the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Magnetic Charging Travel Pad that I reviewed basically simultaneously, this one isn’t built for travel.

It’s built around a rounded base that comes in either black or white, and it’s heavy; at around 640g it’s heavier than just about anything you could feasibly charge it from.

The design itself is quite simple, incorporating a silver charging plate that juts out from the side for charging an Apple Watch or certain types and generations of Apple AirPods. While the jutting out nature and different material does create the illusion that perhaps the Apple Watch charging plate might retract for a more compact presentation, this isn’t the case.

At the top, there’s a Qi2 charging plate that can be angled upwards to a rough 60 degrees or so, though it’s also perfectly workable if left laying flat.

The idea here is that if you’ve got a Qi2 compatible smartphone – which at the moment is basically just iPhones and HMD’s Skyline phone – you could prop it up in a more viewing-friendly angle if you wished, or use the Qi2 plate more generally to charge other Qi phones, because Qi2 is backwards compatible, though you’d lose the magnetic attachment that way, relying only on gravity to keep your phone in the right spot.

Also, and maybe this is only me and the way my mind works, but with the main plate flat and viewed from the side, it looks a lot like a Dalek. Nobody tell Terry Nation’s estate, OK?

Belkin The Dalek kept getting the line wrong. It wasn’t “Energise”, it was “Exterminate”.

For the record, I think that’s quite charming; a lot of chargers are simply utilitarian devices, and this one isn’t.

The Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock plugs into power via a fixed USB-C cable that comes out of the base, connecting up to an included 30W USB-C plug. It’s nice to have the included charger for sure, especially at the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock’s $204.95 asking price, though I’m less of a fan of chargers with fixed cables.

When and if that cable breaks over time, the entire charger will be rendered useless for most consumers, where using a USB-C socket on that end would allow for cable replacement instead.

The other big negative design note I have surrounding the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock is that it’s just a 2-in-1 dock. The base is a large, heavy unit in its own right, but it’s not incorporating its own plug or anything within that space, so it feels like it’s a bit of a waste not having – for example – a tertiary USB port built in. You might not use that a lot, but it would add just a little flexibility.

Perhaps Daleks do not like USB ports, what with them being universal; they do tend to view themselves as the superior beings already.

Performance

Like the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Magnetic Charging Travel Pad, it’s hard not to think of the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock as being best suited to those strongly within the Apple ecosystem; while you can charge other phones from the Qi2 plate, that’s always as a balancing act to get both the position of a non-Qi2 phone’s wireless charging coils right, and then have it stay still on the plate.

Add to that the fact that the Apple Watch charger will only charge Apple gear, and this is indeed a Cupertino-centric device.

It certainly does work, and it makes the most sense as a desk-based, or possibly bedside table-based charger.

That’s because even at maximum output rates, the 15W of wireless charging that Qi2 can deliver isn’t particularly fast.

If you wanted that, the included 30W USB-C charger would power up an iPhone much more quickly with a USB-C to USB-C cable – but one isn’t included in the box, and in any case it’d be silly to spend this much on a wireless charger just to use it in a wired way.

Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock: Alex’s Verdict

The Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock is a nicely designed unit, even if you don’t draw the same Dalek comparisons I do from it, and it’s robustly built too.

However, it’s very specific – I can’t see a real reason for an Android user to buy one, because even if you do have a Qi2 phone in the future, the Apple Watch charger’s never likely to be much use to you – and it’s also not inexpensive at $204.95.

It is a nice device, and a good way to have something to hand to keep your phone topped up during the day, or to recharge at night, but it’s certainly not the cheapest way to manage that particular task.

Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock: Pricing and availability

The Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock retails in Australia for $204.95

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