External Battery

[Robbo]

Saw these on Whirlpool and thought they might be of interest.

http://www.imaxpower.com/product-p/imp880.htm

http://www.mophie.com/product-p/1059_jpa-ip3g-blk.htm

[DexterPunk]

Juice pack air looks pretty good... quite thick though. They should make an app to give extra battery power

[wobblysauce]

not bad

[pixelboy]

Its driving me nuts.. this 18month old 3G cant even last a day..

Im going to open the phukka up I think.. shove one of these in..

Original battery is 1200, and is 18mont old.. this 1600 should double the battery time I'm hoping

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[norbs]

Apple make some nice shizzle, but fucking battery life is something they are fucking hopeless at!

[pixelboy]

Its not just them.. palm and HTC smart phones aren't much better..

Big Screen + Lots of 3G + CPU Slugging APPS = shit battery life...

My past two phones were just as bad.. but at least I could put a new battery in without undoing 9 screws and 6 data clips

[DexterPunk]

I find mine is quite good when only using it as a phone... basically, not messing around with it all day. If its just used to make and receive calls, it seems to last a couple of days.

[Doso]

Its not just them.. palm and HTC smart phones aren't much better..

Big Screen + Lots of 3G + CPU Slugging APPS = shit battery life...

My past two phones were just as bad.. but at least I could put a new battery in without undoing 9 screws and 6 data clips

yeah but HTC offers solutions like this;

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/htc- ... wer-price/

or the ability to simply switch batteries

[nutty]

Must admit, after using a HTC phone and then swapping to blackberry.. Rim is fucking fantastic at

I use my phone daily, get 50-150 emails per day, texts/blackberry messenger/applications and msn.. battery lasts me 2 days with the 5.x firmware on bold 9000

[w00dsy]

thei battery life should be compared more to a laptops than a phone. Like Dex said if you just use it as a phone then it lasts for ages, but we have ipods, emails etc and it drains it, obviously.

[Robbo]

That's the key I think Woodsy. The real stats should come down to hours in use and type of usage rather than hours switched on. I didn't play music, video, games, maps, email, text, chat and banking on my Nokia.

[nutty]

I do on my blackberry tho :o