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    I've been carrying ESR's new 45W Xtend charger through airports, trains and a freezing Vienna Christmas market, and it's the first charger I'd call genuinely travel-smart. The cable is built in, it fast-charges an iPhone 17 Pro to 50% in 22 minutes and it weighs less than Apple's own brick. Here's the full test, the catches and whether to wait for a Black Friday price.
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