What’s the best battery bank for iPhone? Here are our favorites!

Having a way to charge your iPhone on the go is paramount nowadays, especially since heavy use — looking at you Facebook, Snapchat, and Pokémon Go! — can kill your battery before day’s end. When that happens, and then no outlet in site, a battery pack will be your best friend. But which battery pack? Here are our favorites!

TravelCard 1,500mAh
RAVPower Ace 22,000mAh
KMASHI 10,000mAh
Aukey 16,000mAh
Anker Astro E1 5,200mAh
Aibocn 10,000mAh
Anker PowerCore 20,100mAh

TravelCard 1,500mAh

The Wirecutter’s favorite charger is also one of ours, especially since you can buy one made specifically for iPhone, with a built-in Lightning cable.

1,500mAh won’t give you a full charge for your iPhone, but it will easily help you make it to the end of the day and then some. What more can you expect from a charger that’s roughly the length and width of a credit card?

See at TravelCard

RAVPower Ace 22,000mAh…

With Chromecast support, Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil makes it easier than ever to send music around your home.

Rogue Amoeba has released version 5.5 of Airfoil, it’s Mac app for streaming audio to different devices around your home. While Airfoil has already supported AirPlay and Bluetooth connections, the app has added compatibility with Google’s Chromecast devices, as well as any device that supports Google Cast.

From Rogue Amoeba:

To reiterate, Airfoil now supports sending audio to any device that supports the Google Cast protocol. As pictured above, that includes the Google Chromecast Audio, as well as both the current Google Chromecast Video and the original (stick-shaped) model.1 Further, there are also many televisions and stereos which support Google Cast, and Airfoil works great with those as well.

Airfoil 5.5 also features a number of smaller improvements, including bug fixes and stability enhancements. The update is available for free to existing customers, while new cu…

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Right now you can grab an unlocked certified refurbished iPhone 6s at Amazon for as little as $419. The retail giant is offering 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB versions of the phone, each of which is available in a variety of colors as well. While the iPhone 7 may be the center of attention, the iPhone 6s is still quite a powerful phone that runs iOS 10 with ease.

You’ll still have a warranty on these, and Amazon says:

This Certified Refurbished product has been tested and certified to work and look like new, with minimal to no signs of wear, by a specialized third-party seller approved by Amazon. The product is backed by a minimum 90-day warranty, and may arrive in a generic brown or white box. Accessories may be generic and not directly from the manufacturer.

If you are looking for a spare phone to keep around, or something for the kids maybe, you won’t want to miss out on this deal that is only available today, October 31. Which model are you going to pick up? Let us know in the com…

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Michael Gartenberg has covered the personal technology beat for more than two decades at places like Gartner, Jupiter Research and Altimeter Group. Most recently, he spent a few years at Apple as Sr. Director of Worldwide Product Marketing.

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It was a pretty cool week. We saw product introductions from Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft went first, their big product unveil was Surface Studio, a desktop version of the Surface line, that’s nothing like any PC I have seen.

It has an amazingly thin, 28″ LCD screen, and a ”zero-gravity hinge” that goes from a desktop mode to to a drawing mode at the push of a single finger. Surface Studio, of course works with Microsoft’s Surface Pen. There’s also something new called Surface Dial. It’s a small puck that rotates to do all sorts of fun things such as zoom in or rotate.

That would be interesting but that’s no…