mbeat 4 Ports USB Rapid Car Charger - 40W Rapid Smart Charger/Individual ON/OFF switches/90cm Extension Cable Design

Four ports, and their kind is never stated anywhere here. Not USB-A, not USB-C, not Lightning, and no statement that they are a mixture: no port type appears anywhere on the page. On a charger bought to run four things at once that is the first question there is, because it decides whether the cables already in your car will plug into it, and this listing never gets to it.

Quickest possible, with no number under it

The performance claim here is that the charger delivers the quickest possible charge for an iPad, an iPhone, an Android phone or a tablet. Behind that superlative no fast-charge protocol is named at all: nothing about Quick Charge, nothing about Power Delivery, nothing about PPS. The description carries two numerals in total, the four and the 40W, and neither of them is attached to the claim. Quickest possible is a comparison whose second term was never supplied, and it stays here as the supplier's assertion rather than as something this page vouches for.

A switch for every port

The genuinely unusual part of this charger is that each of the four ports has its own on and off switch, which the description names twice and calls an individual power ON/OFF function design. That is the entire account of them. Nothing says what state the charger sits in with all four switched off, whether the switching happens at the port or further back, or what the switches are there to save you.

Key features

• Four charging positions: four devices can be on charge together, which is the whole shape of the product.
• Switch per position: each port can be turned on or off on its own.
• PowerWiz detection: the supplier's name for a technology it says auto-detects the device you plug in, described no further.
• 40W across the unit: a single output figure covering the whole charger.
• Named device families: iPad, iPhone, Android phone and tablet are the four things the description says it charges.
• Sold under the mbeat name: the brand appears on the listing, and the description itself names no maker.

Specifications

• Charging positions: 4
• Output figure stated: 40W
• Per-position switching: individual ON/OFF per position
• Technology named: PowerWiz
• Device families listed: iPad, iPhone, Android phone, tablet

Questions this listing does not answer

• What does it plug into? Unanswered. Twelve volts, an accessory or cigarette socket, a dashboard: none of these is named, and a vehicle enters this listing solely through the product's own name.
• No hazard is raised and no precaution given, on something drawing current out of a car.
• Electrically, 40W stands alone. Voltage, current, milliamps and any output attributed to a single position are all absent.
• A 90cm extension cable is promised twice above the description and not once within it. No cable, no lead and no length appears there at all, which leaves open whether the thing is captive or loose in the box.
• Its size, its mass and whatever holds it in position go unstated, on a unit that has to sit somewhere four people can reach.
• Compliance marking does not appear, nor does a country of manufacture; identification runs out at the stock code.
• Warranty goes unmentioned throughout.
• Twenty-nine words in one run-on sentence, assembled from four fragments, is the entire description; everything above is drawn from it.

Buy this one for the four positions and the switches, which is what the description is actually about; the port type, the cable and everything electrical past the 40W are things you will have to establish somewhere other than this page.