I have bought exclusively various Anker phone charging cables for a while. I only buy the latest version with a lifetime warranty. I think these are the first I’ve bought (about 3 years ago) with the heavy woven fabric sheath. The sheath is extremely heavy, so the cable does not get caught on your desk or on all the crap,on the console in your vehicle. The strain relief on the cables is a heavy, molded, one pice unit.
When I first bought a bunch of these sets, they were for gifts for family members. When I sent out texts just before Christmas 2020, everybody’s cables were still working after 3 or so years. Since one of my older model Anker Powerline cables had died, I bought myself a set of these to replace the dead Anker and 2 frayed older non-Anker cables in my truck.
From what I’ve seen over the years, most charging cables fail at one of the connectors from being twisted until the conductor wires break, because the strain relief design is defective, the cable sheath is so light that it can twist and break the conductor, or both. Anker seems to have solved both of these problems. The other failure point is somewhere along the lenght of the cable. Accidental but continuous stretching of the cable when it is pulledlode from something, twisted, or stepped on will eventually break one of the wires in a thin, crappy cable. The heavy woven fabric covering of the Anker cable prevents these problems.
Another thing I noticed about the longer Anker cables is that the diameter of the Powerline ii 10’ cables are almost twice the diameter of the 3’ cables. I don’t know if that is because they use heavier gauge wire to reduce electrical resistance, or that they just design the longer ones to be more durable than the shorter ones on the theory that they will get more punishment from dog and cat chews because they are longer and more noticeable to pets. in either event, it shows thoughtful design, and results to a superior product.
As to value, thin non-Apple cables offer the least because they last almost no time at all and mostly fail when you need them to work. Thin Apple cables seem to last a little, but not really much, longer, and seem at firstn to give you some warning as they went south. But they were massively over-priced for what they are- a ripoff almost on the level of buying replaceable memory from Apple.
So, the Anker Lightning cables extremely dependable and reasonably priced, so in my experience, they offer the best bang for the buck. And the 3 pack of different lenghts is more useful than I thought it would be. The ten-foot cable you need in the hotel room to reach between the table and the outlet will get tangled in stuff on your desk or or in your vehicle, where the 3 foot cable is more useful.
In my opinion, there is not enough enough price difference to not buy the top of the line Anker cable. You want it to work when you need it - in a lecture hall, a business meeting, a courtroom, sending a photo to you editor, or trying to tether your computer to yr phone on the road..When it fails there, you are not going to think, “well, at least I saved $5 by buying the OOkyx cable”
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