Belkin’s new $150 3-in-1 charger is the primary to get Apple Watch Series 7 quick charging

Belkin has a pair of latest wi-fi Apple Watch chargers it’s asserting immediately, that are notably the primary third-party chargers to assist the newly added quick charging on the Apple Watch Series 7.

The bigger of the 2 is the $149.95 BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad with MagSafe, which follows within the footsteps of final 12 months’s 3-in-1 Belkin charger. In addition to including Series 7 quick charging, Belkin has ditched the odd sculptural design on the earlier mannequin in favor of a extra normal-looking flat rectangular pad that can in all probability match higher on a nightstand.

The new charger goals to hit the proper trio of Apple charging: full-speed 15W MagSafe charging for an iPhone, Series 7 quick charging for an Apple Watch, and a daily Qi charger for the AirPods. Of course, as has at all times been the case with Belkin’s mixture chargers, the $150 price ticket is way over what it might price to purchase particular person MagSafe, fast-charging Series 7 Apple Watch, and Qi chargers, which means that you just’re paying a good premium for fashion and comfort right here. That value additionally does embrace a 40W energy adapter, so that you’re not less than getting a one-stop answer to your cash.

The different new charger right here is a little more baffling: the BoostCharge Pro Portable Fast Charger for Apple Watch, which is a pop-up Apple Watch charging stand that prices $59.95. Despite the “portable” within the title, Belkin’s solo charger isn’t a battery pack-style setup for recharging an Apple Watch whilst you’re out and about. And much more baffling, that $60 price ticket doesn’t embrace an influence adapter: whereas there’s an built-in USB-C cable constructed into the stand, you’ll have to offer your individual 20W wall adapter to really use it.

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The web result’s a bigger, bulkier model of the fast-charging cable that Apple consists of with each Apple Watch Series 7 — besides that Belkin’s model prices actually twice the standalone cable’s $29 value.

Looking extra broadly, although, is the truth that the brand new Belkin quick chargers present — as soon as once more — the intentional limits of Apple’s MFi program. The new chargers from Belkin are the one third-party quick chargers in the marketplace proper now, and if the sample of final 12 months’s glacial MagSafe rollout is something to go by, it’ll be a while earlier than different firms are in a position to get the approval (and the elements) from Apple to make different choices.

Both the $59.95 BoostCharge Pro Portable Fast Charger for Apple Watch and 149.95 BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad with MagSafe can be found to order immediately from Belkin and Apple’s respective web sites within the US, Japan, Hong Kong, and China, with availability in additional nations promised within the coming months.