World's First Charging Cable with OLED Display | PixelCable
2Start-Up Animation | Battery Charging Percentage
PixelCable is the World's First Charging Cable with OLED Display. The PixelCable is available in USB-C or Lightning cable versions. It works like all the other cables in your drawers, but one end of the cable has a tiny app-controlled smart OLED display that can show custom scrolling text, photos, and animations for fun and also real-time charging info. PixelCable is available in both colors Dazzling Black or Pearl White. The sample I was sent is the Dazzling Black variant, which is a combination of black and some grey stitches. The quality of the PixelCable feels pretty good. The cable is woven with a nylon braid that feels soft yet strong. The cable doesn’t feel overly rigid so it doesn’t have awkward bends along the cable trail. Mobfree also mentions that the PixelCable will have a real-time battery percentage display, which shows the percentage of battery that your device currently has. However, to enable this feature you have to go to the Qcharger app and manually connect to the cable. If you don’t do that, the OLED screen will just function as a voltage meter. One of the main features of the PixelCable was that you can customize what the start-up animation would look like. Given the start-up animation lingers for 15-20 seconds, it seems like Mobfree is seeing this as one of the pull factors for this product. The USB-C to Lightning cable is capped at 20W since no iPhone can charge at a higher wattage anyway. The USB-C to USB-C on the other hand can support power delivery up to 100W. I tested this with my MacBook Pro using the default 87W charger, and it managed to deliver 86W.