Anker Anker 6ft Nylon Braided Micro USB Cable

The cables arrived in a Anker box which included the standard Anker customer service card and two individually wrapped cables with a reusable velcro strip attached to each, a nice touch. Each cable weighs 1.75oz. and is approximately 71 3/4 inches long. I chose these because I already own other Anker products that have performed outstanding and my six and ten foot cable I had purchased from Volutz mysteriously just stopped working all together. So I came back to Anker for these two six foot cables.
Each has a tight fitting connector on each end and appear to be quite solidly connected to the nylon jacket of the cable. The cable feels slightly stiff and tends to hold a shape, which to me means a good sized conductor… wires inside.
The first thing I noticed when connected to my Anker 60W, 6 port Adapter was the speed at which it charged my phone first, then my 10 ” tablet… Impressive. These feel very well constructed.
Initially though, quite impressed, but it is a Anker product, which I’ve come to trust over time. Customer service, even though I’ve never had to use it on a dozen or more Anker products I currently own, appears a cut above the rest too from researching and reading many reviews of people whom have used it, hat off to you Anker.
I will be using these often and will update my review/stars as fit over time, as I do on many of the hundreds of items purchased from Amazon over many years.

Update 6/15/18 : one cable has stopped working and it was used lightly. The second of the two I ordered is questionable at best now. Judging on this performance I won’t be reordering this item.

Update 7/12/18 : Anker sent me out one cable, outstandingly backing their products, they actually read reviews too. I own many Anker products and many cables. These two cables have been the only problem out of all the products I own. Excellent company that corrects occasional problems. I will contact them about a second replacement cable since the second is very questionable.

Update 7/21/18 : They definitely stand behind their products, sent me out a second cable, so that makes the two original cables replaced. The new cable sent are actually a upgrade from the otiginal problematic ones they replaced. Keep in mind, out of all the cables, chargers, etc. I have ordered from Anker, these two cables were the Only item with a problem and Anker stepped up sending me upgraded replacement cables. Simply outstanding customer service! While I can’t recommend this particular cable, I can recommend the company, Anker.

Another terrific surprise from Amazon Prime and Anker! The first pleasant shock came 2 days early, when my Amazon delivery arrived on Saturday afternoon instead of Monday the 18th of December. So the delivery was free AND 2 days early…a nice way to start things off.

The last time I placed virtually the exact same order with Amazon Prime approximately 5 months ago, it arrived in a HUGE Amazon delivery box along with a ton of plastic foam peanuts filling in the spaces between the 3 or 4 smaller boxes containing the actual items themselves. Whomever packed THIS one minimized the size of the shipment this time around & everything fit neatly into a simple Prime wraparound cardboard outer box with no need for foam peanuts! All items arrived in perfect condition (as they had in the previous delivery as well) with minimum fuss and no extra lifting.

I had upgraded my Anker USB charging cables this time around since the previous cables hadn’t held up very well to my heavy charging needs. I make heavy use of Twitter, Instagram and Reddit alongside other social media apps these days & that added to my love of stereo Bluetooth headsets means lots of charging cycles each week. And standard Micro USB charge cables tend to develop issues and then start splitting cables or warping connectors after a few months of hard use.

I had noticed a newer, heavy duty type of charging cables showing up in Macintosh 9 To 5, Macworld and other online article advertisements through my Twitter feeds lately. They offered braided, nylon or flat cables to avoid tangles and kinks plus added heavy duty aluminum connectors and sometimes even gold tips on Lightning connectors for Apple products.

The prices were a bit rich for me, somewhere around $25 for 2 meter length cables. But when I thought about it, it occured to me that if they lasted for 9 months to year instead of the 2 or 3 months I’d been getting from my $9 cables, I would be saving money. So I listed my need on Amazon to be notified of any price reduction of the upscale model charging cables. (Frankly, I didn’t even know that Anker made these high quality types of Micro USB charging cables…those that I’d seen advertised were naturally pitched toward iPhone and Apple users with MiFi or USB C connectors. Useless to an Android user like myself.)

But I got a Notification last Friday that a 6 foot braided nylon charging cable made with heavy duty connectors and high grade copper wires to speed up charging as well as increase lifetime was being offered in a Lightning Sale at 2 for $12! So I beefed up my Amazon Prime order 2 other items I needed to replace anyway and put in my order immediately!

The two came in the usual Anker cable box but they were coiled tightly tightly together since the red, heavy duty nylon cords are much stronger, more flexible and do not kink or knot up at all. And cable management is much easier with this model because they come with an attatched Ziploc tie mounted at the Micro USB end of each cord. All of the high end charging cables each come with these same Ziploc ties as well and it makes a world of difference when packing them cables and carrying them about.

Each cord is 1.8 meters in length, or 6 feet, and the heavier gauge copper wires are inside a nylon sheath which is likewise wrapped in a red braided material. The USB connectors at either end are held on by a hard rubber cover to prevent the ends from fraying or otherwise coming loose during heavy use. All these details make for both a considerably stronger cord and also speed up the charging cycle as well. This is a beautifully engineered charging cable by any standard and yet it comes in at the traditionally low Anker price point that Amazon cutomers know and appreciate!

Used to charge various devices. Works very well and is great quality.

Acheté 2 pour le prix d’1 et combiné avec un bloc de la même marque, je suis complètement satisfait.

Le câble est plutôt long et passe sous les roues de ma chaise quand je bouge (je suis un gamer) mais vu qu’il est tressé ça ne pose aucun problème, donc plutôt résistant !
L’embout micro USB est également solide, c’était le grand défaut de mes autres câbles où l’embout se tordait très rapidement. là ça fait quelques semaines déjà et aucun problème!

UPDATE : Un des câble de fonctionne plus et l’autre à du mal, cela vient des câbles car je n’ai aucun problème avec d’autres.
Mauvaise manipulation ou mauvaise qualité.. je ne sais pas, je fais pourtant bien attention depuis.
Il y a une garantie dessus que je vais faire valoir.