News October 24, 2009

Mophie’s Twitter Name… @MophieLovesYou. Hey Mophie- Back At Ya!

I had the opportunity to have dinner with Judie and Wayne Thursday night. It was great to finally meet them in person and to discover that two of the people I spend a lot of time e-mailing and chatting with online are just as much fun to be with in person as they are from a distance.

We each have slightly different needs and interests and, as a result, each of us was carrying something a little bit different. Wayne had his Zune HD and his MyTouch3G. Judie was carrying her 8 gazillion dollar Virtu. (Okay it is just $8000 but still IT IS $8000!!!!) I brought my BlackberryBold and my LiveScribe Pulse Pen since I don’t go anywhere without it these days.

There was, however, one piece of equipment we all had in common. Every… single… one… of us had…

our iPhones dressed in a Mophie Juice Pack Air external battery case.

Gear Diary Mophies Twitter Name... @MophieLovesYou. Hey Mophie Back At Ya! photo

We all love the extra/needed battery time and low-profile protection it offers.

I was chatting with Judie this afternoon and she commented that we weren’t the only ones who are carrying our iPhone’s in a Mophie. Xavier and Amisha from Notebooks.com use the Mophie, and Andru from Gear Live uses the Mophie holster to boot!

It makes a lot of sense that a lot of us are using this particular accessory. The iPhone 3GS is a remarkable device but it’s battery life is less than stellar- especially if you are a power user. (Even with Judie using only Edge and not 3G both the iPhone and the Mophie were drained by 10 o’clock last night.) The Mophie Juice Pack Air is the best low profile way to extend the runtime of the iPhone that we found.

It’s one thing for us to talk about a device or an accessory when we review it. It’s quite another to realize that we are all using it in real life. Well done Mophie!

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him.

http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

Good observation Dan. As we were meeting people in NYC I did in fact notice that we all tended to “look alike” in what we carried.

In addition I love the Mophie Hip Holster that serves as a carrying case for the iPhone and Mophie Air. Been using it for a few weeks.

http://www.geardiary.com/2009/09/16/mophie-debuts-hip-holster-premium-leather-cases-for-juice-pack-series/

One of the other cool things about the Mophie Air is that (and depending on your assortment of cables I guess this could be negative) it charges with a MicroUSB connector.

This means that if you have other phones using MicroUSB that you can use those connectors to re-charge the Mophie and your standard iPhone battery.

On the downside – if you’re short on MicroUSB it can be a bit of a pain to juggle the cables so there’s one near your computer and one near your standard overnight charger (for me that’s the bed).
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markntravis

I keep my phone plugged into the car cig lighter socket and it is always topped off.
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