Battery Extender and Case in One – juice pack 3G is the only “Works with iPhone” Apple certified accessory that offers the convenience of an extended battery and the protection of a case, all with an ergonomically designed, soft-touch, non-slip rubberized finish.
Pass-through USB – Included USB cable enables you to simultaneously charge and sync your iPhone to iTunes without having to remove it from the juice pack 3G
Advanced Battery Technology – Intelligent power distribution instructs the iPhone to always drain out the juice pack first. When you’re done with the juice pack 3G, simply detach and you still have a fully charged phone. Highly condensed lithium polymer battery delivers an incredible amount of juice in a small form factor and features built in overcharge, short circuit, and temperature protection
4 Light LED Battery Status Indicator – Integrated LED status indicator tells you exactly how much juice is left and also displays how much time remains during the charging process
Full Charged Juice Pack 3G give users more than twice the power
Standby Time – Up to additional 350 hours
Audio Playback – Up to additional 28 hours
Video Playback – Up to additional 8 hours
Talk Time –Up to additional 6 hours(3G Network) and 12 hours(2G Network)
Internet use – Up to additional 6 hours(3G) and 7 hours(Wi-Fi)
“Since we debuted juice pack 3G this Summer, the response has been overwhelmingly positive” says Ross Howe, Sales and Product Development Director for mStation | mophie. “There is currently a huge demand for additional battery support. juice pack 3G delivers this exceptional battery enhancement while keeping the unique style and feel of the iPhone intact and not adding unnecessary bulk.”
The mophie juice pack 3G™ is available now online and in stores at an MSRP of $99.95. For more information on the mophie juice pack 3G, please visit www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack-iphone-3g
If you’re like me, you have most likely noticed that new sweet 3G iPhone drains a lot faster than the life changing 1st Generation iPhone did. Now I find myself plugging in my 3G into the car charger anytime I’m in my truck. I feel like I’m reverting to my Windows Mobile days.
Thankfully, Mophie, makers of external batteries for iPods and the 1st generation iPhone have updated its Juice Pack to work with the “twice as fast and half the price” iPhone! Giving your demanding 3G iPhone 350 hours of standby time, 6 hours of 3G talk time (12 for 2G), 6 hours of 3G Internet use, and 7 hours for Wi-Fi. The Juice Pack will give you much needed juice. Your iPod audio will now play for more than a day at 28 hours and you’ll get 8 hours of video play. Splendid, no doubt?
Ross Howe, Sales and Product Development Director for mStation/mophie says in its press release that, “Since its debut, power users of the iPhone 3G have demanded a product that will boost battery life for extended on-the-go use” . Howe continues, “juice pack 3G delivers this exceptional battery enhancement while keeping the unique style and feel of the iPhone intact.”
You can pre-order your Juice Pack for $99.95 at Mophie’s web site now.
Apple took a leap into the enterprise market last Friday with the release of the iPhone firmware 2.0, a free downloadable upgrade for current first-generation users and pre-loaded on the 3G iPhone. The vault was the inclusion of full native support for Microsoft’s heavily used corporate email server, Exchange. Now, business men and women around the globe would be able to get their email on their iPhone in real-time. In other words, when new email appeared in their Inbox on their Mac or PC at the office, it would also be on the iPhone. This method is termed “push” as in pushing email to your phone rather than the phone checking for new email every 15, 30, or 60 minutes per user defined settings.
Push email has its advantages, like being constantly up to date with your email, but it also has some nasty cons. Users that see a large influx of email coming in throughout the day will find heavy battery usage due to the constant pushing of messages. Instead of holding off at a minimum of every 15 minutes to get your email, now your messages are filling up your iPhone every minute a new message is sent to you. If you receive 10 messages in 15 minutes, your iPhone will have 10 active sessions with your Exchange server within those 15 minutes. Multiple this by the hours in your day of heavy traffic and you’ll notice a red battery on your iPhones screen real fast. Add the 3G iPhone to the mix and it may be at 20% by the end of lunch. Not that this problem isn’t reserved just for Exchange users, but also Apple’s new MobileMe is effected by this issue as well. Anytime high traffic email is pushed to your iPhone, your phone will be draining its battery very quickly.
There are ways around this battery dump for your iPhone. In the Settings section, you will find the third icon labeled “Fetch New Data”. Tapping this brings up various settings. The first is “Push” which lets you turn it on or off. If you have more than one push account, say your Exchange server at work and your personal MobileMe, you can tap the “Advanced” selection on the bottom of the screen and then individually disable push for each account to allow you to retain, say your work email to be pushed and not your personal mail.
Push technology is not a new problem for batteries and it’s one Apple needs to actively find a solution to. Other manufactures such a Research In Motion (BlackBerry) have made great strives in keeping the battery juiced throughout the day while still receiving lots of email. If Apple wishes to overtake the millions of BlackBerrys in the enterprise, it needs to get this battery drain plugged.
TekCharge MP1800 delivers 14.8 Watt-hours per charge through a standard USB port. The battery connects through a mini USB port to a mobile device in two ways: via an adapter that mates with the power port, or using the device’s own USB cable, bypassing the need for an extra adapter. To combat the shortage of electrical plugs in most hotel rooms, TekCharge MP1800 charges a connected device at the same time its battery is being charged.
TekCharge MP1800 includes a voltage regulator so it won’t harm the connected device or its battery. A color coded LED provides the charge status, and TekCharge MP1800 even has a white LED flashlight at one end.
“Like our popular myPower™ ALL line of external laptop batteries/chargers, TekCharge MP1800 is universal so it can be used with different types of devices, including most mobile phones, iPhone, iPod, Zune®, MP3 players, portable CD players, and Bluetooth headsets,” says Jerry Yang, president of Tekkeon, Inc. “In fact, supplying up to 800mA, TekCharge MP1800 goes 60% beyond most portable batteries which provide 5V at 500mA, so there aren’t many devices it can’t both run and charge.”
TekCharge MP1800 comes with a handy tote, plus eight adapter tips for connection to:
- Blackberry (mini USB)
- LG mobile phones
- Motorola mobile phones (mini USB and Micro USB)
- Nokia mobile phones
- Samsung mobile phones
- Sony Ericsson mobile phones
Using the device USB cable eliminates the need for a specific adapter; however, additional
adapters are available from the Tekkeon store for devices with a USB cable.
TekCharge MP1800, which retails for $44.95, is available through retail and major on-line stores, including Buy.com, DataVision, eCOST.com, Expansys, Newegg, and RCS Experience, and from the Tekkeon store at www.tekkeon.com. It comes with a one-year limited warranty.
Looking to talk a little longer, surf a bit further, watch a few movies, or listen endlessly to your tunes on your iPhone? Not looking to be strapped by a cable to make it all happen? No worries mate, give the Mybat External Battery for iPhone and iPod a look and you may be surprised to find that, ah, you can do all these things with it!
SvenOnTech put this external battery through some heavy testing and we were pleasantly surprised to find out that, well, read the review and see what surprised us and why we were pleasant. 
mStation gives more power to iPhone fanatics everywhere with the all new mophie™ juice pack™ iPhone battery extender. The mophie™ juice pack™ comes ‘pre-charged’ and ready to go straight out of the package. It houses a rechargeable lithium polymer battery within an ergonomic, comfort-grip case with a soft-touch, non-slip finish. The added “juice” gives consumers up to an additional 250 hours of standby time, 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback, and 24 hours of audio playback. The juice pack™ also integrates a 4 LED ‘charge status’ indicator and its own 30-pin dock connector, making it incredibly simple to recharge your juice pack™ using standard iPhone accessories, like the cable included with your iPhone.
“In designing the mophie™ juice pack™, we strove to create the perfect balance between a powerful battery extender and a comfortable, ergonomic case for the iPhone” says Ross Howe, Sales and Product Development Director for mStation. “With the juice pack™, iPhone users can more than double their power without the inconvenience and bulk of a conventional battery attachment.”
The mophie juice pack™ will be available online and in stores in mid December at an MSRP of $99.95. The mophie™ juice pack™ for the iPod Touch will be available in January 2008. For more information on mStation or mophie, please visit www.mstation.com or www.mophie.com.
Santa Rosa electric car pioneer Zap has come to the iPhones rescue, of sorts. While it already has excellent battery life for a smartphone, some are finding a need to get more from it and Zap brings three times that need with the iZap.
“The iZAP battery was a life-saver during my business trip to China last week,” said iPhone owner Steve Schneider, Chief Executive Officer for ZAP. “Frankly, if an iPod runs out of power, losing your music and video is not as critical to your business trip as the iPhone. You lose your cell phone access, text messages, Internet and email access, time zone clock, business notes, scheduling software, driving maps, calculator and all the other news and information for which the iPhone was designed.”
I guess if you’re the CEO, you can find this nifty new battery; however, if you search Zap’s site, good luck finding this new beast. There is an iZAP for the iPod, though, this is probably not what you want to zap your iPhone with.
ou can now make sure that wherever you are you can always guarantee your laptop is fully charged with Proporta’s Portable Laptop Battery
The Portable Laptop Battery comes with a selection of input and output tips to cater for most laptop models. Simply attach the input tip to your laptop’s AC adapter and charge the battery for future use. When your laptop is next running low, insert the battery’s output cable and tip into the laptop charging port, and recharge your laptop for prolonged use.
A well as being environmentally friendly, it also includes a very handy USB port to allow you to charge your other USB devices, such as your iPod, camera and phone, whilst on the move. Just plug your mobile device’s USB charge cable into the battery’s standard USB port and recharge anywhere.
This really is a product you should never leave home without - now you have no excuse not to get all your work done It’s coming soon to Proporta, so check out www.proporta.com to take a closer look.
P.S. Check out more of Proporta’s products including Proporta’s Laptop Sleeve to keep your laptop safely covered up.
Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech®) announced the NewerTech Intelligent Battery Charging Station, the world’s first battery charger/conditioner for Apple MacBook®/MacBook Pro laptops.
Available immediately for $149.95, the Intelligent Battery Charging Station delivers the longest possible runtimes and extends the lifetime of MacBook and MacBook Pro batteries for maximum “unplugged” usability. The only available MacBook battery charger/conditioner on the market, the NewerTech Intelligent Battery Charging Station was designed with a dual purpose: to charge and condition batteries. The charger has two bays for conveniently charging two batteries one after the other, or charging one battery while conditioning a second one.
With the Intelligent Battery Charging Station, consumers don’t have to go through the hassle of charging and draining every time they use their laptop to avoid reducing their battery’s effectiveness. And with 1.6 million MacBook/MacBook Pros shipping in just Q4 2006 alone, the NewerTech Intelligent Battery Charging Station is the essential add-on for every MacBook user! Read the rest of this entry »
So Apple CEO Steve Jobs is out telling everyone that it is striving to become a green company with the announcement of its use of LED backlights instead of the common toxin found in todays LCD displays. Kudos, Apple, but of course, critics just don’t see things as good enough (even if a start) and they’re all out making their own noise. What I find odd is how mute they are when it comes to things like “green” cars such as the Prius. Ironic how there’s all this compliant about the iPods and its small batteries and how they are filling up landfills world wide and yet they drive from protest to protest in their hybrids they never think once what they’ll do in five years or so when those large battery packs (take a look at the bottom of this article) have to be replaced. These packs have nearly 100 battery cells the size of an iPod each inside them. What’s the game plan, folks?
I’m tired of the green crowd sharply pointing fingers at companies and not acknowledging its own ignorance. Walk on the lot of any Toyota dealership and ask what type of recycling plan it has for the batteries in the Prius and other hybrids available and you’ll get a blank stare. “Recycle?” The average American keeps its car for 4 to 5 years. Most won’t even keep their hybrid before the batteries need to go to a third-world nation for dumping. Add that to the fact that more batteries will need to be produced for replacements and newer vehicles and what will be the toll on the environment due to mining for the needed material for these batteries? Shesh, does anyone think this stuff out all the way? Based on California’s MTBE mess, I can say, “No!”
The irony of all this is that hybrids aren’t even the best answer for fuel conservation! The answer has been on the road for nearly a century. It’s called the diesel. Don’t believe me? Take a look at AutoWeek’s article Are We There Yet? in which the Volkswagen Jetta TDI bettered the Prius by nearly 8 miles per gallon! No batteries to add to landfills, no extra $7,000 price tag for an electric motor and a battery pack and best of all, it’s a nicer car and is larger than the Prius. Now I’m not saying a Hummer is better than a Prius (though this article shatters some myths about hybrids brilliantly,) but I am saying that these hybrids need to looked at with the same scrutiny as being applied to Apple’s iPod and other companies getting share of pain from environmentalist. If you’re going after batteries, go after them ALL! Require a recycle plan from ALL the companies. Trust me, we’re going to have a much larger mess when a few thousand Prius’ go to the landfill than a few million iPods!