Everything you need to know about this charger fits in one small table on Anker’s website, and it is easy to skip before buying. The charger is the Anker 735, also sold as the Nano II 65W, model A2667. It has two USB-C ports and one USB-A port. The headline says 65W. The table says which port gets what, and the numbers change a lot with where you plug in.
Owner feedback is limited, so I lean hard on the published numbers and flag the rest as reports.
Product image from the Amazon listing.
I think it’s a very good travel charger for one laptop and one phone, as long as you learn the port rule. Used carelessly with three devices, it will annoy you.
The Port Map That Decides Everything
Anker’s product page gives the full split, and I will walk through it in words.
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Use one port on its own and either USB-C port offers up to 65W. The USB-A port tops out at 22.5W. That part is simple.
Now use two ports. The two USB-C ports together give 45W and 20W, and the top port gets the bigger share. The top USB-C port and the USB-A port give 40W and 22.5W. The bottom USB-C port and the USB-A port together give 12W and 12W. That last pair is the trap. Your total has dropped from 65W to 24W because you picked the wrong two holes.
Use all three and you get 40W from the top USB-C port, then 12W from each of the others.
Owners have boiled this down to a neat rule. In an OzBargain deal thread for this model, one commenter wrote: “Easy way to remember is never use the bottom two ports at the same time.” I would print that on the box. Put your laptop in the top port, and treat the bottom pair as an either-or choice.
Product image from the Amazon listing.
A Laptop and a Phone, in Practice
The theme of this charger is sharing one brick across a phone and a laptop, so here is what those numbers mean.
On its own, a 65W port is enough for smaller MacBooks. Gadget Explained says it can run a 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro at full speed.
Add an iPhone to the second USB-C port and the Mac drops to 45W while the phone gets 20W. For most light laptops that is a good result, and 20W is plenty for a phone. The Mac will charge more slowly under heavy work, and that’s fine for a desk or a hotel room. Plug in a third device and the top port falls to 40W while the phone falls to 12W, so a phone that used to fill quickly now takes clearly longer.
A big MacBook Pro is a different story. Those machines ship with much larger adapters, and a 65W ceiling will mean slow charging during hard work, even with nothing else plugged in. My guess is that this suits a light laptop far better. I found no owner test of a 16-inch model on this exact charger, so that’s reasoning from the numbers.
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I found no clean, independent measurement of a MacBook charging while two other ports are busy. Reviews mostly repeat the table.
Product image from the Amazon listing.
When It Stops and Thinks
Here is where owners get frustrated, and the reports are worth reading closely.
The same OzBargain thread has several. One owner says it worked well for the first few months and now sometimes stops charging every device until a cable is replugged. Another says it stalled while negotiating power on a trip and charged nothing, after working fine at home. A third says some low-power devices would not charge once two or three things were plugged in, and that the behavior was hard to predict. Another owner in the same thread says the opposite: three devices at once, many times, no trouble.
Low-power gear seems to be the weak spot. Anker’s support guidance on Apple Watch charging suggests the charger may shut down USB-A to favor USB-C, and that reconnecting the watch cable restarts charging. That fits the owner reports above. So if your plan is laptop plus watch overnight, you may wake up to a flat watch. Check the current advice on Anker’s support site.
Anker has answered one common worry. Quoted in that thread, support says an empty cable does not count, and that the charger “only restricts wattage and adjusts power distribution when power is actively drawn by connected devices.” That’s good news if you leave cables dangling. It also implies that power gets reshuffled whenever a device joins or leaves. One owner did find that a cable with a Lightning adapter on it counted as active with nothing attached, so the rule has edges.
A charger that resets its ports when you add a device can make everything pause for a moment. Most people would never notice, but do watch for it with a phone you left charging overnight.
Size, Plug and Which One You Are Getting
This is a stubby, heavy-ish block rather than a slim one. Anker lists it at 1.50 by 1.15 by 2.60 inches. Gadget Explained gives 141 grams for the unit it reviewed and said it sticks out of a socket considerably more than Anker’s smaller models. An owner in that OzBargain thread found it long and heavy enough to risk sagging out of a loose power point. That’s a real concern in an old hotel socket.
Plugs vary by region, so read yours carefully. The unit in that review has a fixed plug with no folding, while listings for the US version describe a foldable plug. That’s one point I’d check on arrival if you travel a lot, since a fixed plug changes how it sits in a bag. The input is rated for 100 to 240 volts, so an owner in that thread is right that a simple plug adapter is all you need overseas.
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Gadget Explained also makes two smaller points. There are no status lights, which is nice in a dark bedroom and less nice when you want to know whether it’s working. The finish shows fingerprints. No cable comes in the box, and you need one rated for the full power, so budget for that. The review adds that this model supports PPS, the standard newer Samsung phones like, and reports up to 28W on an S22 Ultra against 38W from Samsung’s own 45W charger.
The name is confusing, and that reviewer says so too. Anker has sold chargers under Nano II, 735 and PowerPort III branding, and there is also a separate 735 GaNPrime model, A2668. Look for A2667 on the label if you want the one in the table above. Reliability is the part I can’t settle. One owner in that thread says a unit died on day two of a trip, and another replied that several Anker chargers have given them no trouble. Neither comment tells you a failure rate.
My Verdict on the One-Brick Plan
I would buy this for one laptop plus one phone, with the laptop in the top port and the phone in the middle port. On those terms the numbers are strong and the price tends to be low.
Skip it if you want a true three-device charger, because 12W ports and the odd stalled device will wear you down. Skip it if your laptop is a large MacBook Pro. And if you charge an Apple Watch from USB-A overnight, a separate small charger is the safer plan.
For a light laptop and a phone on the road, the Anker 65W USB-C Charger (3-port) earns a place in the bag, provided you stay away from that bottom pair. This is an affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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