WakaWaka Powerbank Power 10

We live as missionaries in Madagascar and as you can imagine we have many moments without lights and without the ability to charge our phones. Wakawaka to the rescue. Its innovative design allows us to put it on the top of a coke bottle and shine light over our entire dining area when the lights are out. We have hooked it over the stove inside of our home as well as in convenient places in the bath room to shower by flashlight. The stand sure is creative and important. We have one in the car and I keep one with me whenever I'm out of the house, traveling around Madagascar. We would love to do some sort of fundraiser with them and give them out to people here in Madagascar - lessen the chances of home fires and give families the ability to spend their small hard earned funds on other things, beside a candle and matches every couple of days.

already had a WakaWaka from a while ago. Decided to give this as a Christmas gift to my brother for camping and just to have as back up. Works great. really bright. charges phone in an emergency. great to have around or put in car too. I hope the company is still donating these to children & families in need in some of the developing countries (or for disaster relief areas?). anyway, love these & will continue to use & buy as gifts.

Seemed like a great product with excellent reviews. I bought this as a way to charge my IPhone X on my multi day backpacking trips. Tried it at home a few days prior to my trip. 12 hours in bright CA sun gets me only one charge indicator on the unit and adds about 30% to 35% charge on my IPhone X.

Item does not come with a Manual I had to google to find it. I did everything is says to do to charge the device. Buying a micro usb charging it for 10 hours. It says will light up while charging but it never lit up at all. I received a broken device. There is no customer service phone number to call for this company to ask questions. Huge waste of money.

The quality isn't up to expectation.

Didn’t work

This solar-charged flashlight is 4.75" by 3" by 5/8" and weighs 5.75 ounces. It has a 3000 mAh battery capacity and can be used to completely charge smart watches, cameras, and smartphones using a USB connection. The output is 5.1v 2.1A. You can charge the Li ion battery in 3 hours using a mini USB connection cable and wall charger that you can buy from the company (as they aren't included). Or you can set it in the sunlight and, in optimal light conditions, completely charge the battery in 12 to 18 hours. In the winter months and through the windows, charging is going slower than that, but the battery has still charged enough that I've been able to completely charge a smaller electronic device without a problem. I initially tried charging a tablet. Even if the flashlight battery had a full charge, it would not be able to completely charge the tablet battery so I kept a close eye on the tablet to see what would happen when the flashlight battery ran out. The tablet simply showed that it was no longer charging, and the flashlight shut the charging off when the battery level ran too low. According to the downloadable user manual, an LED light near the charging port also glowed at this point to indicate a charging "error," but I hadn't known to look there when this happened. A lone LED light on the top edge flashes to indicate when it's charging, how fast it's charging, and when the battery is full.The flashlight obviously also has a light function when you press the power button. Each press of the power button toggles you through the options, and a press-and-hold will activate the SOS function. It has four levels of light: 70 lumens, 20 lumens, 10 lumens, 5 lumens. The 70 lm lasts 13 hours on a full charge while the 5 lm lasts 200 hours. (A 40 watt incandescent bulbs put out 450 lumens. Yet the 70 lumens level seems pretty bright when you're using it in the dark.) Four LED lights on the top edge indicate which level of light you're using. The light is more yellowish in tint than bluish.The flashlight has a section that can fold out to act as a stand. This section also has a round cut out that can be used to attach the flashlight to a backpack or you can thread string through it to hang the flashlight. This hole is big enough (1 3/16" across) to fit over the top of a plastic water bottle as a "lamp stand," though that looks top-heavy to me. There is a small hole at the top of the flashlight, also for hanging the flashlight. The charging cells are plastic, just like the rest of the case is a tough plastic. It looks like it'll withstand use well. So far, I'm very pleased.

The packaging is great. That was my first thought. The Waka Waka comes encased in a book-looking cardboard volume that has cool graphics. Unfortunately, those graphics don't include directions, but there is a downloadable manual available online.I sought out the directions because I wasn't having any success getting this device to charge in the sun, and I was wondering if I was doing anything wrong: I wasn't. Apparently, it can take 18 hours to charge the Waka Waka using the solar cell if it's positioned in direct sunlight. I've had it in a southwest-facing window for several days--in the winter, in Connecticut (in case my latitude is of interest)--and it has yet to charge beyond 25%. So, this is pretty disappointing. Perhaps the charging time will improve as we get closer to summer.I have charged the device successfully from the wall, however, so I know that it works, and it works fine. It powered my phone without a problem, and the flashlight on the device--which has a number of different settings you can toggle through--worked without a hitch.The Waka Waka is elegantly designed, and I like its vibrant color. I can see it being very useful in a power outage...assuming one has the sunlight to charge it, which is not a given. Of course, you can still use it as a regular, grid-charged battery pack, but there are plenty of non-solar power banks out there that offer much more power for far less money. (And a quick search of Amazon suggests that there are a number of less expensive solar-powered devices out there too.) In other words, the selling point for the Waka Waka is that it can be charged by sunlight. But if it takes, say, four days (at best) in Connecticut's winter sun to charge it--and through it my phone--just once, I'm not sure it's worth its substantial price.