Nomad’s new USB-C cable can charge your iPhone and Apple Watch at the same time

Feb 05, 2025 01:50 AM - 4 days ago 5454

Andrew Liszewski

Andrew Liszewski is a elder newsman who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved each things physics since he was a kid.

Nomad has announced a caller USB-C cablegram designed to complaint aggregate devices simultaneously. Instead of copying Anker’s homework and releasing a charging cablegram pinch dual USB-C connectors connected 1 end, Nomad’s caller Universal Cable for Apple Watch features an inline charging puck for Apple’s smartwatch connected 1 end. It seems perfect for travelers wanting to minimize the number of cables they’re packing, but it could beryllium conscionable arsenic useful for tidying up a cluttered desk.

The Universal Cable for Apple Watch is disposable now done Nomad’s online shop for $100, and is only offered successful a azygous 1.5-meter length. That’s decidedly costly erstwhile moreover Apple only charges $29 for its Apple Watch charger.

Nomad says its USB-C cablegram is wrapped successful a durable “double-braided Kevlar outer weave” and features “reinforced, electroplated metallic connectors,” but it’s the cable’s functionality, not its build quality, that mightiness warrant its value tag.

1/4Nomad’s caller cablegram tin beryllium utilized to complaint an Apple Watch alongside immoderate instrumentality that tin beryllium charged complete USB-C. Image: Nomad

Nomad says you’ll request to plug its cosmopolitan USB-C cablegram into an adapter that outputs astatine slightest 20W of powerfulness successful bid to complaint aggregate devices. The cablegram is rated for up to 100W of powerfulness transportation if you’re utilizing an adapter that tin present that overmuch juice, but it prioritizes powerfulness to the wireless charging puck. So if you’re besides charging immoderate of the Apple Watch models (fast charging the Series 7-10, Ultra, and Ultra 2 is supported) aliases the AirPods Pro 2 and the AirPods 4 (ANC), powerfulness transportation to the USB-C connector will apical retired astatine up to 92W.

Data transportation rates aren’t rather arsenic impressive. Nomad says it maxes retired astatine USB 2.0 speeds “to let for longer cablegram length.”

The Universal Cable for Apple Watch isn’t constricted to only charging devices from an adapter plugged into a wall outlet. You tin complaint your Apple Watch from an iPhone pinch 1 extremity of the USB-C cablegram plugged into the smartphone, and moreover complaint your AirPods astatine the aforesaid clip by plugging them into the different extremity of the cable.

But if you were to plug the different extremity of the cablegram into a instrumentality that tin present much power, for illustration a MacBook aliases an iPad, the iPhone will alternatively commencement drafting powerfulness and charging, arsenic demonstrated by Nomad’s CEO Noah Dentzel in a video.

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