I spent days with this Jiga Power Bank and it has cool…

I spent days with this Jiga Power Bank and it has cool features but also some problems that make it hard to carry

Jiga 27000mAh Power Bank leaning on plinth on pink background.

Jiga 27000mAh Power Bank review

The Jiga Power Bank is a capacious power bank with a 22.5W maximum output, designed to offer plenty of charges for your smaller devices.

It probably won’t win any awards for its looks, as it adopts a strictly utilitarian design. There are variants with orange and red front panels, but that’s the only flourish you get.

The build quality of the Jiga Power Bank seems good at least: the chassis feels reasonably sturdy and the power button functioned well during my time with it. However, it isn’t as thin or as light as the best power banks out there, although given its 27,000mAh capacity, this isn’t much of a surprise.

There are five small LEDs surrounding the power button: four to indicate battery level and a lightning symbol that turns green to indicate charging – a handy visual to reassure you that your device is definitely charging.

The Jiga Power Bank also has an integrated flashlight, which is quite bright, although it does require holding the power button a little too long to toggle, which diminishes its usefulness somewhat.

Unfortunately, the Jiga Power Bank doesn’t come with a USB-C-to-C cable, only a short USB-C-to-A cable, although the USB-A ports are the most powerful, delivering 22.5W each. The USB-C port is close behind with 20W, and thankfully three-way simultaneous charging is possible as well.

There’s also a Micro USB port, which is odd on two counts: it’s rather outdated now, and can only be used to charge the Jiga Power Bank itself, not to charge other devices. Still, if you’ve got any of those cables laying around, then it could prove a useful inclusion.

Charging my Google Pixel 7a from 50% to 100% using the USB-C port took just over an hour, which is a reasonable performance. The bank’s battery remained on four bars, which seems to suggest that Jiga’s claim of getting between three and five phone charges out of it holds true.

For under $30, the Jiga Power Bank represents good value considering its output and capacity. It undercuts the Juovi J2621, for instance, which has less capacity (20,000mAh), but it does have more power (45W).

Usually, power banks with high capacities tend to have high power outputs to match, which inevitably brings the cost up, so the Jiga Power Bank occupies a rather niche position for those who like to charge small and medium devices multiple times.