You already know I love the Target dollar bins and recently I’ve noticed a few additions. Besides the fact that the bin now includes $3 items, on a recent visit I saw $5 electronic accessories. ‘m generally leery of going too cheap on the tech front, but I dropped the 5 bucks and took a chance.

I purchased an iConcepts smartphone power boost so I can charge my phone on the go. Hmm, I probably should have left this one at the store.

The former dollar bin at Target is now home to $1, $3 and $5 products. The $5 items seemed to only include pieces from iConcepts, including headphones, charger cables, portable speakers and phone covers.

Though I already have a myCharge portable charger that I love and I hope to buy the Mighty Purse Portable Charger next year, but I wanted to try a smaller charger at a fraction of the cost. The iConcepts smartphone power boost from Target runs off of two AA batteries and is the width of a bottle cap and the length of my phone, which made it perfect to slip in my purse!

As soon as I got home I loaded two batteries in and started using it…but it didn’t work! The charge icon came on my phone to indicate it was charging, but it actually wasn’t. After 40 minutes, my battery had decreased by six percent. I unplugged and tried again, but still, no dice! The little pamphlet warns you it’s totally normal for the device to get hot and it certainly does after a few minutes. I decided to give the power boost charger another try. This time I put in another set of new batteries. Initially my phone went from 64 to 70 percent {yay!} and then it went back down to 69 percent. Boo!

I’m definitely not happy with this product and will be returning it to Target. I’m just glad I tried the charger before I headed out for the night and was left stranded with a dead battery. I should probably stick to my rule of not going too cheap chic with some tech accessories. For now I’ll just rely on the myCharge. It’s bulky, but was $80 well spent and keeps my iPhone charged all day.

I did however find these stylish tablet covers for $5 in the Target bins.