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Portable power is useful for travel, camping, and everyday life, and with more and more weather events impacting the grid, an emergency power backup can save lives. Amazon’s second Prime Day sale event of the year, which ends tonight, features great deals on Prime Day portable power stations. You can find the best Prime Day deals here. But if you’re looking to pick up a backup power station or just a power bank for your smartphone, these deals are for you.
We test and write about power stations and portable chargers all year round, compare our own recommendations, and then use price tracking software to make sure everything we recommend is actually a good deal. These are all portable chargers and power stations that we’ve tested and love. You need an Amazon Prime membership to get Prime Day sale prices, but you can sign up for a free trialand there are many Prime benefits.
A MagSafe power bank for iPhone
Everyone knows that sinking feeling when your iPhone runs out of battery before bed. The top pick in our guide to the best MagSafe power banks attaches to the back of your iPhone using magnets to wirelessly charge its battery. Slim and lightweight, it’s easy to slip into a pocket or bag, and the 5000 mAh capacity will keep your iPhone alive until you reach an outlet. (You need an iPhone 12 and later with MagSafe for this to work.) It comes in some fun colors, has a stylish folding stand to hold your iPhone in portrait or landscape orientation, and can charge any USB-C device with the supplied cable.
A portable charger for any phone
Sharge (formerly Shargeek) produces transparent designs with a cyberpunk aesthetic, but they don’t skimp on features. This prism-shaped power bank can deliver 170 watts, has a massive 24,000 mAh capacity, and gets an IP66 water resistance rating (good in the rain). The smart screen shows all the stats you could want, supports many standards including Power Delivery 3.1, Quick Charge 4.0 and PPS, and quickly charges everything I’ve tested it with, including the iPhone 15 Pro, Pixel 8, Xiaomi. 14 Ultra and MacBook Air.
A portable charger for laptops
Photography: Simon Hill
With a massive 24,000 mAh capacity, this power bank can charge almost anything, including laptops. It’s usually expensive and is the upgrade option in our guide to the best portable chargers, but Amazon is offering a big discount today. It gets Power Delivery 3.1, can send or receive up to 140 watts, and has a smart digital display to show stats like percentage of battery remaining, temperature, total power, and more. You can quickly charge most devices with this and can charge three devices simultaneously.
A camping power station
If you’re hiking with a backpack to go camping, this is the highest capacity portable charger you can realistically carry without getting a hernia. It features a massive 90,000 mAh capacity in a nice pop-up flashlight design and includes plenty of ports. The handle makes it easy to carry, although it weighs about 6 pounds, but there is an optional shoulder strap for $30. The Anker app can show you all the details about the power station, but it’s not necessary as the unit’s screen shows the percentage remaining, watts in or out, and an estimate of the time left before the battery needs to be recharged.
A power station and a solar generator for homes
The Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus is the top pick in our guide to the best portable power stations and this package pairs it with an extra battery and two 200-watt solar panels. This gives you a total of 4,085.6 watt-hours of power and is all you need to generate your own power. It’s relatively quiet and efficient and can produce 3000 watts, so it will happily power appliances and tools. It can also serve as an emergency power supply (EPS) and comes with all the cables you need. The LiFePO4 batteries inside should last 10 years.
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