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(More customer reviews)I'd rather give this product 0 stars, but since it has to have one, I'll say it's for the effort that someone even tried to make an iPad friendly charger. :) Too bad I've been waiting MONTHS for Macally to release this... Anyway, first off, the instructions say you CANNOT charge an iPad AND something else at the same time. That is frustrating because I have MANY apple devices and was trying to alleviate carrying multiple chargers. The product description here says: "Offers 10 watt two USB ports to charge multiple devices simultaneously". VERY misleading in my opinion, and I wouldn't have purchased it if I knew this information beforehand.
Now for the real bad news and the main reason for the low rating; it's obvious to me that the power coming out of this thing is VERY DIRTY! When I plug either my iPhone 4 or iPad into it (just one device not both) I'm barely able to use them as the touch sensitive screen goes completely bonkers when powered by this unit. My screen "jitters" when I touch it, random buttons on the screen are pushed, the screen resizes and shrinks sporadically, and any number of other random things happen all with just the faintest touch of one finger anywhere on the screen! This renders both of my devices completely unusable when plugged into this thing. The moment I pull the cord out, my device is back to normal, plug it back in and it instantly starts flipping out again. I've tried with both official Apple and 3rd party dock cables, and I even brought it to work and used it in different outlets, and unfortunately, the behavior is always the same.
For anyone who is concerned with not toasting their rather expensive electronic devices into oblivion, then steer FAR FAR AWAY from this charger!!! I for one, will be returning this less than adequate charger for my devices, I just hope it hasn't done any lasting damage... :(
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