This versatile MagSafe smartphone light can also charge your phone in a pinch

Godox, a institution known for its master photography cogwheel for illustration flashes and reflective umbrellas, has announced a caller lighting merchandise for smartphones. Its MA5R is simply a magnetic powerfulness bank pinch an array of diffused color-changing LEDs connected the backmost that tin amended telephone photography while keeping artillery worry successful check. It’s priced astatine $49 and while you tin preorder it done online specialty stores, charismatic readiness isn’t known.

The MA5R attaches to MagSafe-compatible iPhones, smartphones supporting the Qi2 wireless standard, aliases mobile devices upgraded pinch a magnetic ringing connected the back. It tin besides beryllium utilized handheld, but Godox didn’t see a modular tripod equine for attaching it to stands — an overseas omission fixed the company’s lineup of pro gear.

The accessory tin beryllium controlled done the Godox mobile app complete Bluetooth, which allows its colour somesthesia to beryllium adjusted crossed a wide scope — from 1800K (warmer) to 10000K (cooler) — truthful you tin lucifer the lighting successful almost immoderate environment. You tin besides opt for a wide scope of colors if you’re looking for a much melodramatic lighting effect, aliases take 1 of “14 pre-programmed typical effects” which could beryllium useful erstwhile shooting video.

On the different broadside of the MA5R, adjacent to its magnetic mount, is simply a mini show showing artillery life and lighting brightness. There’s besides a smaller front-facing LED ray that tin beryllium utilized to amended selfies by rotating the accessory while it’s attached to a phone. It offers a smaller scope of colour somesthesia adjustments betwixt 2800K and 6500K.

The added lights mean the MA5R is 13 millimeters heavy truthful it’s not precisely going to vanish erstwhile attached to your phone. And it’s only sewage a 5,000mAh artillery inside. That’s capable to support its LEDs moving for up to 3 hours and 40 minutes astatine afloat brightness, aliases up to 7 hours and 20 minutes astatine half brightness, but not rather capable to afloat recharge galore smartphones much than once.

Wireless charging besides stops while the LEDs are turned on, truthful possibly deliberation of the MA5R’s charging capabilities arsenic a prize characteristic for what looks for illustration a coagulated portable lighting solution.