current smartphone owners know what I mean: Those things draw electricity as a washing machine! You do not like a egomaniacal Liver on his iPhone or Google Nexus one (pictured) depend to get the battery within one business day completely flat. iPhone owners are particularly handicapped in this case, because Apple set the batteries has built. Users of other models could plug in theory at least carry a spare - but that sucks in practice, for a battery change is standing at a trade show is often not fun, it is also difficult to charge two batteries when only a mobile phone and only one charger the hotel has. As a rustic solution, some manufacturers already offer so-called jackets, sleeves with built-in extra battery, in which you put into it the smartphone complete and extend the run time significantly.
Energizer Xpal XP 2000 has a different approach: This energy storage is connected by cable to the phone and charges the battery so on. What at first sight - in terms of tailor-made Jackets - somehow complicated acts is, in practice, extremely practical, as opposed to a built for a single phone model, Jacket of Xpal XP 2000 loads just about everything on what can be charged with 5 volts DC: MP3 players, PDAs, Bluetooth headsets, e-book reader or GPS logger . For this purpose the device is a connector cable with six so-called hints at, plug adapter for USB, mini USB, micro-USB, Samsung, Nokia and iPhone / iPod. Thus one has ever about 95 percent of all portable gadgets killed, and the rest (eg iPod nano) you take when needed simply plugged the USB cable that came with the device, because the charging cable on Xpal in a commercially available USB port. Of course there are also gadgets that are supplied without a USB cable, but they are rare, such as the Motorcycle Helmet Headset Cardo Scala, the dabeilag at my Navi. But one would have to solder a cable, where appropriate, the fact that the tips stuck with a habwegs standard round connector on the charger is very helpful for such tinkering.
As for the charge power, which is quite tidy. The Nexus One, I've tested half turn attached to the Xpal had increased its battery capacity after an hour of 25 to 75 percent - while in standby before him, ran'd get mail and other mysterious things did. If I had to charge the cell phone off completely, it would have gone faster. Handling is foolproof: plug it Xpal, press the start button, good. When the connected device is charged, from the Xpal. With its 2,000 mAh
the battery is indeed set up as an emergency generator for a three-month expedition to the Amazon-thin. Said Nexus comes with 1400 mAh purchases at the start, the capacity of a Xpal enough in practice to a smartphone of this caliber once properly recharge. That is now no moon landing, but in practice a proper greeting. The battery I mentioned GPS logger has 650 mAh, then there are already three cycles it. In addition, you can just load with such auxiliary power source may be gadget even where no outlet is available - at the lunch break in the beer garden as it was in flight in an airplane or while riding on a motorcycle. Charged Xpal the XP 2000 is even the way via USB cable, which according to the manufacturer should take four hours. 500 charge cycles are on the Schactel, I have not tried that. And once full, promises this same manufacturer, the thing keeps its charge up to one year. At just 70 grams of live weight (Okay, with bag, cables, and one or two tips are then maybe 100 grams) can be the good part as a helper for an emergency in his briefcase / messenger bag / Prada bag . Insert Speaking of emergencies: Energizer sells the things pre-installed.
What really surprised me was the moderate price: According to the online merchant you are between 25 and 30 euros, a replacement battery for the Nexus one is more expensive, and iPhone owners ... well, that I wrote.
Whom the capacity of the XP 2000 is not enough, can also buy larger caliber: Energizer offers emergency batteries that keep all the notebooks running for hours. Only then the cost significantly more money, and they are so big and heavy that they just do not even put on a hunch in his pocket.
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