The Xiaomi MDY-20-EB, commonly known by its merchandise sanction Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W, is precisely what its overly agelong rubric suggests. It’s an ultra-thin powerfulness slope that attaches magnetically to your phone, has a 5000mAh capacity, and tin supply up to 15W of powerfulness wirelessly. The merchandise was globally announced backmost successful February and has been disposable successful prime markets, but was precocious besides launched successful India, on with a mates of different models, similar the Xiaomi Magnetic Power Bank 10000 45W.
The Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W is priced successful India astatine INR 5,999, which is higher than the INR 3,999 for the 10000 45W model, and adjacent the INR 5,499 for the 20000 165W model. Clearly, you volition beryllium expected to wage a premium for the size and convenience. But is that premium justified? Let’s find out.
Design and specifications
The Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W, henceforth referred to arsenic conscionable the Xiaomi 5000 15W, is incredibly compact. It’s 98.5mm gangly and 71.5mm wide, astir the size of a playing card. The width is close up determination with the width of astir non-Max/Ultra models of flagship phones, truthful you don’t consciousness the powerfulness slope sticking retired the sides.
Then there’s the thickness. At conscionable 6mm thick, the Xiaomi 5000 15W is ridiculously thin. It’s adjacent thinner than the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery, which is astir 7.7mm thick, arsenic per third-party data, and besides has a smaller artillery wrong (3,149mAh). The Xiaomi 5000 15W besides weighs conscionable 98g, portion Apple’s exemplary is implicit 126g.
The outer aboveground of the Xiaomi 5000 15W is made retired of anodized aluminum portion the underside is simply a soft-touch integrative that would beryllium transparent to the inductive charging process. A ellipse tells you wherever the coil and the magnets are located, and if you squint, you tin conscionable astir marque retired the regulatory markings that are borderline intolerable to seizure connected camera.
On the bottommost borderline of the powerfulness slope is simply a USB-C larboard that acts arsenic an input and an output, a enactment of 4 LEDs that denote charging status, and a fastener that shows charging presumption and tin beryllium double-pressed to prosecute low-current charging for things similar Bluetooth headsets and specified that gully precise small power, and could origin the modular mode to power off.
The Xiaomi 5000 15W comes successful 3 colors, Radiant Orange (as seen here), Glacier Silver, and Graphite Black.
The Xiaomi 5000 15W artillery is rated astatine 18.95Wh oregon 5,000mAh astatine 3.79V. However, for emblematic 5V usage cases, the rated capableness is 3,000mAh, which is to say, you tin expect astir 3,000mAh worthy of powerfulness transportation to your connected device.
The wireless charging protocol supports up to 15W. However, herein lies the catch. You see, the Xiaomi 5000 15W tin lone nonstop 15W of powerfulness wirelessly to Xiaomi phones, that too, Xiaomi 17 bid phones, to beryllium precise. All different devices are constricted to a maximum of 7.5W. Now, 15W isn’t precisely blistering accelerated to statesman with, but knowing it’s lone disposable connected a fistful of devices, and the immense bulk of phones volition beryllium constricted to 7.5W oregon lower, doesn’t consciousness great.
The contented is that the Xiaomi 5000 15W is neither MagSafe nor Qi certified. If it supported either oregon some of those technologies, it would person been capable to nonstop its maximum 15W to adjacent non-Xiaomi devices, arsenic agelong arsenic they supported MagSafe oregon Qi 2.0 and above. It’s not wide wherefore this exemplary doesn’t enactment those standards, considering the cheaper 10000 45W exemplary does enactment Qi 2.2 astatine the afloat 25W speeds.
The Xiaomi 5000 15W is besides capable to complaint implicit its USB-C cablegram and tin present up to 22.5W. You tin besides complaint wired and wirelessly simultaneously; you tin get up to 7.5W max retired of the USB and an further 5W from the wireless charger.
Performance
The Xiaomi 5000 15W was tested with the devices disposable astatine hand, which included an iPhone 15 Pro and a Pixel 11 Pro. The iPhone supports up to 15W implicit MagSafe and Qi 2, portion the Pixel supports up to 25W implicit Qi 2.2. Of course, nary of that truly matters since the Xiaomi 5000 15W is neither Qi nor MagSafe certified. Unfortunately, a Xiaomi 17 instrumentality was not disposable to trial the afloat wireless charging speeds.
Starting with the iPhone, aft 30 minutes of wireless charging from 1%, the telephone had reached 27%. After 60 minutes, we were astatine 46%. In 2 hours, the telephone had reached 75%, and finally, the powerfulness slope died astir 2.5 hours aft starting the charging, with the telephone present astatine 91%. While acold from fast, these speeds are inactive good astatine conscionable 7.5W, and based connected this data, you tin ideate the afloat 15W charging speeds with Xiaomi 17 bid devices to beryllium reasonably brisk.
However, that’s not going to beryllium the lawsuit with different Android phones, arsenic investigating connected the Pixel 11 Pro didn’t spell arsenic well. On Android, we person tools that amusement however good the charging is going, and the Xiaomi 5000 15W ne'er went supra 5W. As such, the charging was groan-inducingly slow. After 30 minutes, the telephone had gone from 1% to conscionable 11%, past 21% aft an hour, and past 39% aft 2 hours. The powerfulness slope yet died aft 3 afloat hours, and the Pixel 11 Pro artillery had reached 55%. The information that the powerfulness slope took different 30 minutes to drain wholly connected the Pixel compared to the iPhone shows however overmuch slower it was discharging.
I besides tried wired charging with the Pixel 11 Pro, and the results present were impressive. The telephone charged to 23% successful 15 minutes, 41% successful 30 minutes, and by the 51-minute mark, the powerfulness slope had depleted, having charged the telephone to 61%.
The wired charging speeds are good, but you’re evidently not buying this exemplary for that, arsenic determination are cheaper and much capacious models disposable that tin bash it better. Unfortunately, the wireless charging speeds permission a batch to beryllium desired if you’re not utilizing a Xiaomi 17 telephone oregon astatine slightest an iPhone.
That aside, determination were nary issues with utilizing the Xiaomi 5000 15W. It clung securely to some the iPhone and the Pixel, whether it was stuck straight to the backmost of those phones oregon done their respective first-party magnetic cases. You tin besides conscionable spot thing similar the AirPods lawsuit close connected apical of the magnetic coil, but the AirPods lawsuit lone loosely attaches to the magnets, and isn’t arsenic unafraid arsenic the phones. Non-magnetic phones besides complaint wirelessly but you person to evidently person to marque definite the alignment manually remains successful place.
Verdict
The Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W is simply a truly compact, lightweight, and great-looking powerfulness slope contempt its rated capacity. It has bully wired accelerated charging speeds and tenable wireless speeds should you person a Xiaomi 17 bid device. However, the iPhone charging speeds are connected the slower side, portion emblematic Android charging speeds extracurricular of Xiaomi’s ain phones are practically glacial.
Clearly, then, what you summation successful presumption of size and portability, you suffer successful presumption of sheer show and price. Depending connected the request and the usage case, that's not specified a atrocious deal. If you conscionable privation thing that you tin slap connected to the backmost of your telephone and flip it into your pouch without having to fiddle with cumbersome cables, past the Xiaomi 5000 15W is inactive a large option. Hopefully, Xiaomi is capable to travel up with a successor successful the aboriginal that supports accelerated charging universally.
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