Charging an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch is easy enough with a 3-in-1 charger, but a new style of charger will let you take this concept to go in a big way.
When a phone runs out of battery life, it’s easy enough to charge it up again. Any number of power banks can help out, either over a wired or wireless charger.
But when an Apple Watch runs out of juice, it’s a little more complicated. For that, you’ll need either a power bank with a dedicated Apple Watch charger, or to carry the official Apple Watch charger and to plug that into a charging bank. That’s your choice.
Typically, these chargers aren’t all found in the one gadget, largely because… that’s a lot of charging panels. However, a new gadget from Australian peripheral maker Journey has something that could fit the bill and make life a little easier for folks living in the iPhone ecosystem.
The Journey Glyde is an interesting take on chargers bringing together a 10,000mAh power bank together with three wireless charging pads.
There’s a Qi2 main panel for phones, a secondary Qi panel for earphones, and a hidden Apple Watch charging panel underneath that’s exposed when you slide the lid of the Glyde over. An extra USB-C port at the back gives you a fourth charging port, albeit a wired one, allowing you to charge four devices at once from the power bank.
When not being used as a power bank, that USB port at the back can be plugged into the wall, charging the other three connections.
You might not even use the Apple Watch charger at all, and keep the Glyde lid over the Apple Watch charger, which is on a hinge and lies flat until you need it upright.
Overall, the concept is clever, delivering a different evolution on what Belkin launched in its USB charger with power bank inside. It could just be one of the more clever approaches for travelling, bundling three chargers and a power bank in the one.
The use of Qi2 means the charging pad should handle MagSafe connections, though the current iPhone range in the iPhone 16, well as previous iPhone 15 models are all designed to work with Qi2, as is at least one Android phone, the HMD Skyline.
It’s not the first time Journey has tried something creative with chargers, following the Alti desk mat with integrated wireless charger and the Nexa laptop sleeve with a built-in charging panel.
Mid-October is when Journey’s Glyde will land in Australia, priced at $229.99.
