The charging cable is neither pictured nor described. They say it's for an iphone, but I suspect you will get a mini-USB (EDIT: Micro-USB) cable. As with all things Apple, MFI certified lightning cables are more expensive. Apple also DRMs their cables, so non-MFI-certified cables will not always work, and will sometimes stop working after a firmware update.
Looking at it again, the "charging cable" probably refers to the cable used to charge the battery pack itself. It looks like that is a Mini-USB cable, which is a standard that was abandoned 4 years ago. It's almost as bad as having a proprietary cable, The price is still pretty good, given the caveats, as long as the stated capacity is anything close to accurate.
^ I prefer mini USB. The larger size makes it less likely to rip off the PCB which has happened to some of my micro USB gear no matter how carefully I treated it.
I feel it was a mistake for anything to have micro USB, as it only saves what, about 2mm in the rare case that a product was so densely packed that they had to make it larger for the more durable plug. Unfortunately what's done is done and it is less convenient to have to use a 2nd cable for different gear.
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I feel it was a mistake for anything to have micro USB, as it only saves what, about 2mm in the rare case that a product was so densely packed that they had to make it larger for the more durable plug. Unfortunately what's done is done and it is less convenient to have to use a 2nd cable for different gear.
Thank you!