Unique All-in-One Design Offers Ultimate Power and Performance for Three Devices at Once, Including Top Selling Windows-Based Laptops, iPad, iPhone, and Many Other Mobile Devices
Kensington Computer Products Group, a worldwide leader in delivering smart. safe. simple.™ computing accessories for the mobile consumer, today announced the AbsolutePower™ Laptop, Phone, Tablet Charger, the first compact charger of its kind with simultaneous triple charging ability. The industrial strength charger offers 100W of power and is compatible with top selling Windows-based laptops, smartphones like the iPhone, BlackBerry Torch, Sony Experia, and more, as well as iPad and iPad 2, BlackBerry Playbook and Samsung Galaxy tablets. Mobile professionals can leave multiple chargers behind and no longer need to worry about making room for additional bulky batteries with AbsolutePower. It intelligently charges up to three devices at the same time and its light weight and small size make it easy to carry. Sitting on a desk, AbsolutePower only takes up 12% more space than an iPhone that it charges.
Designed for convenience and nearly all mobile power needs, the product features a compact form factor with a scratch resistant exterior and aids in thermal cooling. AbsolutePower is not only a superior power supply; it’s environmentally friendly as well. As the premium offering in the award winning Kensington Smart Power family of laptop adapters, it is physically packaged in recycled materials and built to help reduce a user’s carbon footprint by providing energy efficiently. In addition, AbsolutePower is competitively priced, similar in cost to less capable mobile power adapters on the market today.
Mobile professionals are relying on multiple computing devices for work and play more than ever. Global forecasts from Gartner indicate that year over year tablet growth for 2010 through 2011 is as much as 309%. An estimated 387 million laptop and 64 million tablet sales are expected in the year 2011 alone. AbsolutePower meets the rapidly increasing demand for superior accessories that are as easy to use and effective in performance as the laptops, smartphones, and tablets it works to empower.
“AbsolutePower is a truly unique product that offers mobile professionals a huge convenience. It’s powerful enough to charge three of the most often used mobile platforms today, all at the same time,” said Peter Zan, Senior Global Product Manager at Kensington. “And because it’s compact and light enough to easily fit in a briefcase or purse, it’s the ideal companion to today’s laptops, smartphones and tablets, so they always operate at peak performance—AbsolutePower’s affordability and green design just add to its ingenuity.”
Introducing the Kensington AbsolutePower™ Laptop, Phone, Tablet Charger (K38080US; SRP $119.99)
The Kensington AbsolutePower™ Laptop, Phone, Tablet Charger provides 100 watts of power to charge your laptop and two USB devices simultaneously--triple charging guaranteed*. A perfect secondary or replacement charger is the smallest, lightest, most powerful charger in its class**. It is compatible with top-selling laptops and the two built-in USB ports offer 2.1 Amp capability for charging tablets and smartphones***.
Additional Features and Benefits
- Smart power technology senses and delivers the amount of power needed to charge your laptop--no more, no less.
- Smart tips are compatible with laptops from HP®, Compaq®, Dell®, Acer®, Toshiba®, Lenovo™, Samsung®, Sony®, Gateway® and ASUS®
- Two built-in USB power ports offer the capability for charging iPad 1 or 2, BlackBerry Playbook, and Samsung Galaxy tablets and iPhone, HTC Nexus One or HD2, Samsung Wave, Nokia N8, Sony Experia, Motorola Milestone 2, LG Quantum or eXpo, and Blackberry Torch phones
- Scratch resistant finish looks great under heavy use
- Detachable cord saves space and makes it convenient for travel
*Adapter can power a 100-watt laptop, or a 90-watt laptop and 10-watt mobile device. Guaranteed charging or your money back within 90 days of purchase. Visit warranty.kensington.com for more details.
**Compared with similar in-class power adapters
***Includes micro USB to USB adapter
Product Availability
The Kensington AbsolutePower™ Laptop, Phone, Tablet Charger will be available in October at Amazon.com, Kensington.com, and other etailers. For additional information on the new and existing line of Kensington products, please visit http://www.kensington.com.
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About Kensington
Kensington is a leading provider of desktop and mobile device accessories, trusted by IT, educators, business and home office professionals around the world for more than 35 years. Kensington products empower people to dynamically interact with content, creating a better working experience for productive performance. In both office and mobile environments, Kensington’s extensive portfolio of award-winning products provides trusted security, desktop productivity innovations, and ergonomic well-being. Our core competencies in engineering, industrial design, product quality and responsive customer support make Kensington The Professionals’ Choice™.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Kensington operates as the technology division of ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO), one of the world’s largest designers, marketers and manufacturers of branded business, academic and consumer products, sold in more than 100 countries across the globe.
Kensington is the inventor and worldwide leader in laptop security locks, the acknowledged leader of Trackball innovation and offers a broad range of premium-branded desktop productivity solutions.