iON, one of the industry’s largest maker of batteries and power supplies has recently released a new product. The Universal Power Bank is a ultra slim, credit card sized, 1500 mAh external battery for use with the iPhone or iPod. The battery comes with its own carrying case and includes a LED indicator so you’ll [...]
Extend Your Talk Time with the Dexim P-Flip Foldable Power Dock
Dexim has just announced a new foldable and portable dock for the iPod and iPhone. While that wouldn’t ordinarily be news in and of itself, this particular dock happens to also include a 2000 mAh extended battery that can extend talk time up to eight hours, video time up to 15 hours, or audio time [...]
Double your SIM as well as your battery life on the iPhone 3G and 3Gs
All of you frequent international travelers will no doubt eye this item with interest: USB Fever has an extended iPhone 3G / 3Gs battery which has a dual SIM adapter. Many people who travel regularly to the same international destination will keep a SIM for each country, which helps them save on data and voice [...]
Voltaic Solar Bags
I’ve mentioned several times how much I love the idea of convergence devices. From my iPhone, to my clock radio, to my USB hub/dock I’m all about getting the most function out of every device I own. The Voltaic line of gear bags not only will carry all of your gadgets around town for you [...]
3800 mAh extended battery will make all the other Pre’s laugh and call yours names
Goodness gracious is this 3800 mAh extended battery for the Palm Pre a train wreck. Honestly – who uses this honking slab of electrodes. I guess if you’re looking to build your biceps it could be a good thing but otherwise it just seems like an awkward admission that maybe the Pre has the grandaddy [...]
Wildcharge brings unplugged charging to the iPhone and iPod Touch
Jealous of the Palm Touchstone that enables the new Palm Pre to charge simply by placing it on a charging Touchstone base without a need to plug in a cable? Been wishing that your iPhone 3G S would charge in a similar manner? Inductive charging has been around for a while and the main problem [...]
Case-Mate Fuel Battery For iPhone 3G (And Now iPhone 3G S)
Among the good news with the upcoming iPhone 3GS is the additional battery life of anywhere between 10 and 20%. That will be a welcome addition as the iPhone 3G was, at best, problematic with regard to battery life. At the same time, however, even with 10 to 20% of additional run-time there is no [...]
Add some light and power to your iPhone
Are you constantly frustrated by the poor job the iPhone’s camera does in low light situations? The FastMac iv is a extended external battery for the iPhone that also has a flashlight which not only can help you see in the dark but can also add light for those times when the iPhone’s camera just [...]
Callpod’s Fuel Tank
Here’s an interesting spare battery that can be used as a “his and her’s” charging kit. The Fueltank has two batteries (Lithium ion) which the manufacturer says have 7 times the capacity of the typical mobile phone. Each side of the dual charger can independently power up a device. The cost of the Fueltank is [...]
BlackBerry Bold Fuel is a holster and 2300 mA extended battery
Are you tired of weighing down your BlackBerry Bold with a fat extended battery pack. Here’s a way to keep the pounds off your berry and still add up to 7 additional talk time hours beyond the normal 15 minutes battery life. This combination BlackBerrry Bold case and extended battery will recharge your Bold when [...]
Review – Mophie Juice Pack Air
If you’re a hardcore iPhone user chances are you struggle with battery life sometime during your daily life. You get too involved with a game, see an extraordinary amount of e-mails, do some serious web surfing and before you know it your battery level has dropped to dangerously low levels before dinner time. There are [...]
Lifetrons Multi-Functional Charger Review
It’s hard to travel light when you’re a gadget lover. You can’t bear to leave your toys behind, so you bring ‘em all… Or at least I do. And then there’re the required accessories – sync cables, spare batteries, chargers, and international plug adaptors. Add everything up, and you end up with… A lot of [...]
External iPhone Batteries: Tekkeon myPower for iPhone and Konnet PowerKZ
As much as I love my iPhone 3G I am the first to point out that it has some serious short-comings. The biggest for me, by far is battery-life. I use my iPhone a lot. I do use my Touch whenever possible so as to save the iPhone’s battery but even with that I never [...]
Mophie to introduce Juice Pack Air – thinner, full protection, integrated power switch
The Mophie 3G Juice Pack has been out since November 2008. It’s an external battery pack available for the iPhone that greatly extends the battery life while simultaneously charging the iPhone’s internal battery. One of the concerns about the Pack is the bulk it adds. There also no way to “turn the juice off” for [...]
Review – Mili Power Pack
My biggest complaint about the iPhone 3G is its battery life. Sure, the lack of being able to run 3rd part apps in the background stinks and the crippled Bluetooth unnecessarily limits the device, but the battery life is a CONSTANT struggle since I use my iPhone so much during the day. Thankfully there are [...]






















