What is the Anker 'smart display charger' and what does that screen even do?

Anker’s new smart display plug-in wall chargers might be small, but they actually do a lot more than just tell you how fast they’re charging your devices. What is the Anker ‘smart display charger’ and what does that screen even do. Come for the smart charging, stay for the cute digital blob.

Since the company’s founding in 2011, there’s been continual innovation across its product lines and diversification into new markets like portable projectors and smart home devices, but it’s always stayed true to its charging accessory roots. One of the company’s newest endeavors is a range of plug-in wall chargers that feature a smart display. Though Anker has long sold devices that deliver baseline information like power levels and feature cheeky visual Easter eggs, like Anker’s Laptop Power Bank, the new smart display does a little bit more.

It can adapt to your charging needs, supply additional data and even offer a little bit of cuteness. Anker’s smart display shows several key bits of information about your charging, with the goal of making typically hidden data easily readable. At a glance, it can display the temperature, charging mode, charging status, the real-time power wattage the charger is outputting and, for supported devices, the battery progress of the item being charged.

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