The IT Nerd

Today I attended the launch of the ZTE Axon flagship smartphone.

And here is the Axon from @ZTE_Canada in the flesh. pic.twitter.com/5IMDOKPUTA

— The IT Nerd (@The_IT_Nerd) October 27, 2015

On top of getting an Axion smartphone to review, which will be posted in the next few days, I also got a really cool backpack. Meet the TYLT Energi+ Power Backpack:

It looks like a normal backpack from the outside, but it has some really cool features.

You get a compartment that versatile enough to put anything into.

There’s a compartment for your sunglasses and your smartphone that’s lined.

There’s also a lined compartment for your tablet.

And there’s a compartment for your laptop. My MacBook Pro 15″ With Retina Display fit in here fine. I could go through the rest of the compartments, but you get so many, we’d be here all day. In total, you get over 1,450 cubic inches of internal space and 13 pockets to store stuff in.

The key feature is that the backpack includes this 10,400 mAh battery pack which allows you to keep your devices charged while they’re in the backpack. It comes with an Apple 30-pin cable and two Micro USB cables to allow you to charge stuff. The battery has three USB ports so you can use any cable that you need. Just make the cables that you use are on the long side for this reason:

You can route all the cables through the blue access points so that you can keep all your stuff charged while it’s in whatever pocket you choose to keep your stuff in.

This area has a NFC tag. Called the TYLT TAGZ, you can use an NFC enabled smartphone to customize settings and launch apps.

Some notes:

• The battery pack doesn’t add that much weight to the backpack. You can also easily remove it as well. Given that it is 10,400 mAh, you can charge a whole lot of stuff with it.
• It really opens up so that if you pass through airport security, you can easily open up all these compartments for inspection.
• You can slide this backpack through a luggage handle so that you only have one thing to wheel though the airport.
• There’s more than enough padding that will keep your shoulders from getting sore from whatever is in the backpack.
• It looks well constructed and I believe that it will hold up to whatever you throw at it.

The TYLT Energi+ Power Backpack is $170 USD. If you’re on the road a lot and you need to keep your gadgets charged, and you need lots of places to store stuff, this is your backpack.

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