₱5,999 Backup Power for Your Home? Infinix Brings XEnergy Power Stations to the Philippines

The budget phone brand's first backup batteries are priced low for the category, though the runtime figures in the announcement deserve a second look.

A brownout in the middle of a client call, or a typhoon that takes the grid down for two days, costs Filipino freelancers and small shop owners real money. Infinix, a brand most people here know for budget phones, now sells an answer to that. The company announced two portable power stations for the Philippines on October 11, the XEnergy S320 and the XEnergy L1000, at introductory prices of ₱5,999 and ₱13,999.

The S320 is the smaller unit. Infinix said it carries a 320Wh lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery rated for more than 3,000 charge cycles and weighs 3.3 kilograms, light enough to carry to a café table or load into a car. It has USB-C, USB-A and DC outputs, supports 65W charging, and refills from a wall outlet or a solar panel. Its regular price is ₱6,999.

The L1000 is the home unit, with a 1kWh battery of the same chemistry that the company rates for more than 6,000 cycles. Its main feature is a built-in uninterruptible power supply. Infinix said the L1000 switches to battery in under 20 milliseconds when grid power drops, which in principle is fast enough to keep a router or a desktop PC running through the cut. The company also lists noise below 45 decibels, an LED display for remaining charge, and charging from the grid or solar panels. Its regular price is ₱16,999.

The runtime claims need context. Infinix said the L1000 can power a 65W laptop for about 15.38 hours and a 16W DC fan for 62.5 hours, while the S320 manages 4.9 hours on the same laptop and 16 hours on a 20W phone charger. Each of those figures is simply the battery capacity divided by the device's wattage, with nothing deducted for the energy every power station loses in conversion. Treat them as a ceiling. Actual hours will be lower, and independent testing has yet to show by how much.

What Filipino buyers should weigh with the Infinix XEnergy Power Stations

The clearest audience is anyone whose income stops when the power does: remote workers on calls, online sellers, and small food or retail counters that depend on a router and a POS terminal. Households in typhoon-prone provinces will look at the L1000 as a way to keep phones, lights and a fan going overnight. At ₱13,999 for 1kWh of LiFePO4 storage, the L1000 sits toward the low end of what this category usually costs here.

Several details were missing from the launch materials. The announcement does not give a full recharge time for either model, and the continuous output wattage, the number that decides which appliances a unit can actually run, is not prominently stated. Check the product listing for it before paying, because a rice cooker, an electric kettle or an air conditioner draws far more than the laptops and bulbs used in the company's examples. The S320 is listed with USB and DC outputs only, so buyers who need a regular wall-type socket should confirm it has one. Solar panels are not mentioned as part of either package and should be budgeted separately.

Warranty is one year from the delivery date for both models, and Infinix said it will repair or replace units with quality issues at no charge. That is far shorter than the cycle ratings imply the battery should last, and this is the brand's first product of this kind in the country, so after-sales handling of a heavy battery for provincial buyers is still untested. Both units are sold through the official Infinix stores on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, and in Infinix physical stores.

Infinix has not said how long the introductory prices will hold. With the 11.11 sales a month away, the practical move for a buyer who is not in a hurry is to wait for independent capacity tests and see how rival power station brands price their own units in response.