High Capacity Solar Charger and Battery - 20,000mAh

High Capacity Solar Charger and Battery, 20,000 mAh Battery and Solar Charger

Product Description

High Capacity Solar Charger and Battery - the perfect green tech gadget for the modern traveler. With a powerful 20,000 mAh battery and 29 unique adapter tips, this solar charger will power and charge just about any portable electronic device.
With its powerful 20,000 mAh battery, this Solar Charger and Battery will provide many more hours of usage for your electronic devices and will seem like an endless power supply thanks to the constant charging by the solar panels. Also included is a handy button to show the amount of power left in the battery and when it's low, just use the car charger, wall plug, or even leave it out in the sun to quickly recharge.
With 29 unique adapter tips, this Solar Charger and Battery will work with almost any portable electronic device. No more messy cables, no more multiple power adapters, this handy tech gadget will save users both money and frustration.
At a Glance...

20,000 mAh Battery and Solar Charger
Battery itself can be recharged quickly via AC adapter, car charger, or even by solar energy
29 unique adapter tips, works with most electronic devices
Power and charge electronic devices on-the-go
Includes a free carrying bag

Specifications:

Primary Function: High Capacity 20000mAh Solar Charger and Battery
Solar Panel Type: Polycrystalline
Peak power supplied by photocell: 4W
Charging Time (From empty to full)
- AC: Approx 3 hrs
- Solar: Approx 26-30 hrs
Battery Capacity: 3.7V 20,000 mAh
Output (V): USB (5V), 3V, 6V, 9V, 12V, 16V, 19V, 22V, 24V
Output (A): 1A (USB 5V), 1A(3V, 6V), 3A (9V, 12V), 4A (16V, 19V, 22V, 24V)
Input (V): 18VInput (A): 2500mA max
Charge Voltage: 100~240V AC/DC
Working Temperature: -5 ~ +60 deg C
Dimensions: 205mm x 282mm x 18mm (L x W x D)
Weight of Main Battery: 700g (Not applicable for calculating shipping weight - please contact our CS team)

Package Details:

Solar Charger and Battery
Digital Products Adapter Tips
Laptop Adapter Tips
AC Power Adapter (100-240V)
Car Cigarette Power Adapter
USB Charging Cable
User Manual
Carrying Bag

Points to Note:

High capacity - 20,000 mAh
Free carrying bag for the Solar Charger and Battery
Recharge battery through included wall AC adapter, car cigarette power adapter, or solar energy
Includes 15 Laptop Adapters to work with most laptop models, including ASUS, HP, Samsung, Acer/T1, Dell, IBM, NEC, Toshiba, Sony 14 other adapter that work with most digital products, including:
- Mobile Phone Brands: Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Apple, Palm One, Blackberry, JVC
- Digital Camera and Camcorder Brands: Canon, Samsung, Casio, Pentax, Minolta, Olympus, Kodak, Panasonic, Fujutsu, Casio, Nikon, Sony
- PSP and many other electronic devices
For Nokia cell phones, please use the "Nokia Special" adapter

Kupa X11 Lux Tablet Review

The Kupa X11 Lux is one of the few Windows 7 tablets to surface in recent months as most PC manufacturers sit and wait for Windows 8. Priced at $1,069, the X11 Lux is Kupa's most premium model, supporting both pen and touch input and combining an Intel Oak Trail processor with 128GB of solid-state storage. This business-friendly tablet also features a fingerprint scanner and TPM for security. Is that enough to justify the price?

Design

Weighing 2.2 pounds and measuring 10.7 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches, the Kupa X11 is thicker than the Samsung Series 7 Slate (0.5 inches) and is 0.4 pounds heavier despite having a smaller screen. The Samsung made up for its bulk and size by offering a larger display and laptop-grade components; the Kupa X11 is thicker and heavier, and offers neither.

In addition to being hefty, the design is also uncomfortable. The dark gray plastic and squared edges may have a certain industrial-style charm, but it doesn't have the luxurious feel of brushed-aluminum or the comfortable curves of the Samsung.

Wide bezels are further widened by extending the chassis below the display. This extension is tapered for greater comfort, but it mostly just adds bulk to an already chunky design. On back of the tablet you'll find a large teardrop-shape vent, but you won't need to worry about fan noise as there is no fan.

Display

The Kupa X11 Lux's screen isn't very bright. It registered 178 lux on our light meter, less than half that of the Samsung Series 7 Slate (398 lux). Ambient light sensing adjusts the screen brightness automatically, but the screen always seemed relatively dim.

The 10.1-inch display has 1366 x 768 resolution, which matches the display of the larger Samsung Series 7 Slate and is a common resolution among tablets of this size. Watching the rowing race from "The Social Network," colors looked natural with rich saturated tones. In the film's many low-lit scenes, however, details were often lost in shadow and dark colors muddied.

We also weren't thrilled with the glass surface. At times, glare and reflections made it difficult to clearly see the display. The viewing angles offered on the X11 are also rather narrow. Even at a slight tilt, the colors would begin to invert, creating a negative effect.

Audio

Despite two relatively large speakers at the bottom of the tablet, audio was barely passable. While we could make out movie dialogue with the volume turned up fully, Trent Reznor's superb soundtrack was often barely noticeable, and sounded like background noise. Listening to "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" from Weezer's Blue Album, the speakers provided tinny sound with almost no bass. The speaker placement may also be a problem; if you rest the tablet against a pillow or your stomach, the sound is muffled almost completely.

Touch Input

The Kupa X11's capacitive touch screen allows two touch points at a time, allowing simple gesture control such as zooming and rotating images, but little else. The capacitive screen was fairly responsive, executing gestures with only a little lag. Kupa tries to compensate for Windows 7 touch-unfriendliness with oversize icons on the desktop, but selecting small menu items or files from a list was an exercise in frustration. We accidentally selected the files above or below the ones intended, even after calibrating the digitizer.

Kupa does offer a stylus to use with the X11 in order to alleviate the fat finger effect, but like the Samsung Series 7 Slate, there is no built-in storage or tethering for the pen. Both finger and stylus inputs are enhanced by the fact that the capacitive touch screen offers pressure-sensitive input.

Screen rotation is automatic, but slow -- taking as much as two seconds -- and often inaccurate. Turning the tablet 90 degrees was often sufficient to confuse the X11 Lux, with the auto-rotate function flipping 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Holding the tablet at anything but an upright angle also seemed to confuse the slate, causing random rotations, or failing to register rotation at all.

Pen Input

The X11 Lux comes with a digital pen that comes in handy for everything from filling out forms and taking notes to drawing. The pen is pressure sensitive, so in an included app like ArtRage 2.6 you'll be able to create thinner or thicker lines based on how hard you press down. When writing in Windows Journal, the inking was smooth and responsive, and the X11 Lux exhibited good palm rejection. It's just a shame that you can't dock the pen in the slate itself.

Keyboard

Click to EnlargeThe keyboard used is the standard Windows on-screen keyboard, which is serviceable, but not fantastic. The buttons respond slowly when typing, and it's really best suited to entering Web addresses and short messages rather than typing longer documents. The Swype keyboard on the Samsung Series 7 Slate is much more intuitive.

User Interface and Apps

With an Atom processor, the Kupa X11 is limited to running the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Professional. Where many tablets add a custom interface over Windows to improve the touch experience, Kupa has instead tweaked Windows itself, with oversize icons on the desktop and widened scroll bars. However, these enhancements pale in comparison to the Series 7 Slate's Touch Launcher, which makes it much easier to run apps using nothing but your finger.

Unlike tablets running iOS or Android, the Kupa X11 Lux has no app store. Instead, the tablet accesses software used by any standard Windows PC, along with Web apps and desktop widgets.

Ports

Along the right-hand edge of the Kupa X11 Lux you will find two USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI port, a headset jack combining headphones and mic, and a power input. A SIM card slot opens up the possibility of 3G mobile broadband (and voice calling), and Kupa has unlocked the device so that it will work with any compatible SIM card. On the bottom of the tablet are two switches, one to toggle the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connection and Bluetooth 2.1, and the other to toggle mobile broadband. An integrated fingerprint reader and TPM chip add easy-to-use security.

Webcam

The Kupa X11 Tablet features a rear-facing 3MP camera for shooting still photos and video, and a front-facing 2-MP camera for video chat. Though it has lower resolution, the front-facing camera produced much clearer images, with bright colors but noticeably grainy pictures and video. The rear-facing camera had significant problems, producing shadowy images in all but a brightly lit room. These images were especially grainy.

All the more frustrating, the Web Cam app included on the tablet caused the X11 to freeze up in two instances. In one case, we were not only unable to take a picture, but had to restart the tablet completely.

Performance

The Kupa X11 tablet uses a 1.7-GHz Intel Atom Z690 processor paired with 2GB of RAM. Comparing the Oak Trail-powered Kupa X11 to the Sandy Bridge-equipped Samsung Series 7 Slate, with its 1.6-GHz Intel Core i5 2467M, is like comparing a netbook to a desktop replacement laptop. The Kupa X11's Geekbench results confirm this delta with a score of 819, well below the average score for netbooks; and a PCMark 07 score of 892 is equally low. Not surprisingly, the Series 7 Slate blows past the Kupa X11 in every performance test, scoring 2,053 in Geekbench, for instance.

The X11 Lux is equipped with a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), which allowed it to complete the LAPTOP File Transfer test in 1 minute 55 seconds, copying nearly 5GB of mixed-media files at a rate of 44.2 MBps. That showing is better than your typical hard drive but well behind the 67.8 MBps of the Samsung Series 7 Slate. That same drive makes for speedy wake times, but it still has a boot time of 1:23, about a minute longer than the Series 7 Slate. Kupa has taken a cue from Intel's Ultrabooks, and encourages hibernating the tablet instead of fully shutting down, touting speedy resume times and up to 30 days of standby time on a single charge.

The Kupa X11 fell even further behind on our OpenOffice Spreadsheet test, where it crawled through at 31 minutes 56 seconds. The Samsung Series 7 Slate, on the other hand, completed the test in 12:45, which still lags behind the ultraportable laptop category average by 4:18. Bottom line: you wouldn't want to use the X11 Lux for anything other than basic productivity chores.

Graphics

With an Intel Atom processor and integrated Intel GMA 600 graphics, we weren't expecting much in the way of graphics performance, but we were still disappointed. The Kupa X11 was unable to even run 3DMark 06. The Samsung Series 7 Slate, on the other hand, not only ran the test, but scored 1,642 points.

The Kupa X11 is sufficient for rendering Web pages and video, but not much more than that. Gaming is also out of the question. Compare this to the integrated graphics capabilities of the Samsung's Core i5 processor, and it's little wonder that the Series 7 Slate was able to run "World of Warcraft," albeit at an unplayable 13 frames per second.

Battery Life

The Kupa X11 has a leg up on the Samsung and other Windows tablets in one key area, battery life. The X11 lasted 7 hours 32 minutes in the Hp Laptop Batteries Test (Web surfing via Wi-Fi), outlasting the Series 7 Slate (5:49) by 1:43, and the average tablet by about half an hour.

Software & Warranty

The Kupa X11 comes with several programs pre-installed, but you won't find much in the way of trialware, because Kupa has instead chosen a combination of full programs, like Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft OneNote, and freeware, like Daum PotPlayer, a media player hailing from Korea. Instead of a 30-day trial of security software, Kupa provides Microsoft Security Essentials. The one sample you'll find on the Kupa X11 is a trial version of ArtRage 2, a paint program included to show off the screen's pressure-sensitive touch input. It works best with the included pen.

Kupa backs the X11 Lux Tablet with a one-year warranty covering parts and labor.

Configurations

There are three configurations of the Kupa X11 available, distinguished by the SSD size and availability of 3G mobile broadband. The base model, the X11 Classic, sells for $799 and boasts a 64GB SSD but is Wi-Fi only. The Kupa X11 Pro ($899.00) adds a SIM card slot for 3G, while the $1,069 Kupa X11 Lux (the model reviewed here) offers 3G and a larger 128GB SSD.

Kupa America has informed us that all three models of the Kupa X11 tablet will be available with Windows 8 this fall. When we tested the Kupa X11 Lux with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we saw minor improvements in performance and boot time, but it remains to be seen how the tablet will perform with the final build.

Verdict

Kupa is hardly a household name, but the X11 Lux tablet has some things going for it, including long Replacement HP ProBook 4710s Laptop Battery life and fairly accurate pen input. However, the bulky design and relatively dim screen give us pause. For just $30 more, we prefer the Samsung Series 7 Slate. It offers a faster Core i5 processor, a smaller but faster 64GB SSD and a larger, brighter display in a lighter package, not to mention a more touch-friendly interface. But if you want longer endurance and a quieter design, the X11 Lux is worth a look.

T-Mobile HTC Mytouch 4G Slide Battery Life More Than Doubled by Mugen Power

Mugen Power today announces a new extended battery HLI-PG59100XL for T-Mobile HTC Mytouch 4G Slide. New battery for HTC Mytouch 4G Slide extends standard battery life more than twice, and comes with a well designed new extended battery door.

HLI-PG59100XL has 3600mAh capacity. Conservatively speaking, it doubles HTC Mytouch 4G standard battery life time, compared to its orignal battery with 1520mAH capacity. It is designed to provide longer battery life with higher quality for its consumers. It extends the battery to 237% of its standard battery life. Besides, HLI-PG59100XL is exceptionally reliable, as all batteries provided by Mugen Power, and it has undergone vigorous QA procedures. Furthermore, HLI-PG59100XL is also CE approved. Batteries provided by Mugen Power are known to have lowest return rate in the industry.

"We all know that HTC devices are not the best friends of one battery. Customers who enjoy the functionality of HTC phones battery are always concerned about battery life. Even with moderate use for checking emails, or making a few phone calls during the day, it is rarely possible to use the phones without recharge for a whole day. Not to mention for heavy users, who need to do conference calls, use applications frequently, or synchronize their phones with other devices. Now with our extended battery, customers do not have to worry about their phones would be out of battery in the middle of the day. They can enjoy the using experience as much as they can. Moderate users only need to charge their phones on average every 4 days according to our customers. To provide the best experience for customers, we worked hard on this model. This solution provides customers more than twice of battery life to stay connected without recharges for at least 2-3 days" says Alice Yang, marketing manager at eTrade Asia Ltd.

Pricing and Availability

T-Mobile HTC Mytouch 4G Slide extended battery HLI-PG59100XL is now available for $98.95 from Mugen Power Batteries with Free Shipping worldwide at battery-store.co.uk
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About Mugen Power Batteries

Mugen Power is the worldwide leading brand of high performance batteries for portable electronic devices. Mugen Power means Performance and Quality and delivers a full spectrum of high quality products for PDAs, smartphones, digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, portable DVD players, notebooks, UMPCs and Personal Media Devices.

Mugen Power batteries have better performance (higher capacity) and reliability (longevity & safety) than other brands. The superior performance improves run time, often doubling that provided by the original brand replacement. The superior quality results in longer battery life and better protection of the powered device.

All Mugen Power batteries also undergo vigorous QA procedure, resulting in Mugen Power achieving the lowest return rate in the market. All Mugen Power batteries are CE and RoHS Certified.

NOTE FOR EDITORS: Mugen Power 3600mAh Extended Battery for T-Mobile HTC Mytouch 4G Slide is available on request to editors of computer magazines and bloggers who will to write a review of the battery.

Could Americans Learn to Love Dual-SIM Phones?

NEW ORLEANS—With many big phone makers off the floor of CTIA, the little guys have come out to play at this year's show. You probably haven't heard of them: Eyo, Unnecto, and Plum Mobile are a few of the prominent names. They all have two things in common, and both of those things are SIM cards.
Dual-SIM phones are extremely popular in Latin America, where several of the smaller handset manufacturers at CTIA are currently selling phones. The South American markets are mostly prepaid and GSM, with a welter of different offers and few subsidies. With carriers offering better rates for calling their own customers than competitors', plenty of South Americans have two subscriptions: one for calling friends on each of two different carriers, or one for work and one for home, for instance.
U.S. carriers have generally barred dual-SIM phones (or their CDMA equivalent, dual-NAM) for competitive reasons: they don't want people to have subscriptions on two different carriers. People who want to have two lines on the same carrier are collateral damage here.
But Unnecto and Plum, at least, are going to try to get this foreign concept into Americans' hands. They're the two most viable of the unknown phone makers at this show, in large part because they have U.S.-based, English-speaking marketing staff.
Unnecto, a brand-new company, is based in New York. They're picking and choosing Asian phones, which they rebrand. They have a close relationship with Mediatek, a Taiwanese maker of inexpensive processors.
Several of Unnecto's phones are texting phones that look like smartphones, most notably like a BlackBerry 8800 or a Nokia E71. The company's flagship is the Quattro, a relatively nondescript budget Android 2.3 phone with a 4-inch, 800-by-480 screen, 5-megapixel camera and a single-core 650-MHz Mediatek processor. And of course, it supports two SIMs. It'll sell for under $200 without a contract, Unnecto spokeswoman Sarah Mogin said.
Plum Mobile has an even broader range, with many brightly colored feature phones and some more powerful smartphones. Plum is based in Miami and has been selling phones in Latin America for years, CEO Sam Hussain said.

The Plum Might looks a lot like a Samsung Galaxy Note, with a giant 5-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera and a 2800mAh battery. It's running Android 2.3 on a 650-MHz Mediatek processor. I found the phone felt really slow when I was using it. The Plum Capacity, meanwhile, is a more traditionally sized black slab smartphone, with a 3.5-inch, 320-by-480 screen, and 3.2-megapixel camera. It also uses the 650-MHz Mediatek processor.
Both Unnecto and Plum are looking primarily to third-party retailers like big-box stores, drugstores, Dollar General, and online retailers to sell their unlocked phones.
Why Dual-SIM Probably Won't Work Here
Plum's and Unnecto's handsets could appeal in a lot of countries, including much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. But they probably won't sell here.
The U.S. mobile market is dominated by large minute buckets or unlimited plans, and carriers generally have incompatible bands and technologies. The first point makes it less appealing to have a dual-SIM phone; the second means there are few SIMs you can combine in one device.
Plum's and Unnecto's phones are GSM-only, and generally only have AT&T's 3G bands. So they don't work at all with Verizon, Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, U.S. Cellular, Boost, Virgin, or many other CDMA carriers. Folks with SIMs from T-Mobile and Simple Mobile, meanwhile, would be stuck on 2G. That's fine for 2G-only voice and texting phones like the Unnecto Pro, but it's a bummer with a smartphone.
That leaves AT&T and companies which use its network, like Straight Talk and H2O Mobile. Yeah, sure, that's a couple of options, but it's much less appealing than in countries where you could plug any available operator into your HTC BTR6300B mobile phone batteries.
The phones also just feel cheap. I'm less bothered by the companies' small, brightly colored voice phones, which would make dandy backup, emergency or tween phones. But with MetroPCS, Virgin, and others offering no-contract, brand-name smartphones from companies like LG and ZTE for $99, it's hard to suggest that consumers take a flyer on a new name without a clear advantage. We'll see if these new manufacturers make a dent in the market.
For more from CTIA, check out the photoblog below.

source from blog: Could Americans Learn to Love Dual-SIM Phones?

Why Is HTC Choosing Phone Thinness Over Battery Life?

Battery life is arguably the number one concern when it comes to choosing a smartphone — even the most feature-packed phones are useless if they’ve run out of power. So why does HTC value device thinness more than dell inspiron 6400 battery performance?
At Frequencies, a Seattle press event, HTC’s Bjorn Kilburn, vice president of portfolio strategy, stated that the company decided against making phones with high-capacity — and portly — 3000 mAh batteries in favor of making thinner devices.
The result is evidenced by the company’s HTC One S, the thinnest HTC phone yet. It measures in at 7.8 mm and sports a 1650 mAh battery. The upcoming One X features a slightly larger 1800 mAh battery, and is 8.9 mm thick. (For comparison, the iPhone is 9.3mm thick and has a 1432 mAh battery.)
According to Kilburn, HTC’s consumer research shows people prefer thin smartphones — between 8 mm and 10 mm thick — as opposed to thicker devices with longer Dell Latitude D430 AC Adapter battery life.
The HTC research would seem to contradict a recent J.D. Power and Associates study that revealed battery performance as one of the most important factors in overall smartphone satisfaction. Notably, users who are “highly satisfied” with their smartphone’s battery performance are more likely to purchase future phones from the same manufacturer than users who are “less satisfied.”

“We’ve seen that with 4G phones — thick or thin, [user satisfaction] really comes down to battery life,” Kirk Parsons, senior director of wireless services at J.D. Power and Associates, told Wired. “It’s just going to get more critical as more functionality, which really sucks up battery life, comes to smartphones.”
Wired reached out to HTC for comment, but received no response by press time.
Another point of contention between J.D. Power and Associates’ and HTC’s research concerns phone thickness — specifically, the threshold at which a phone’s thickness becomes too thick, and user satisfaction drops. The cut-off point is 0.55 inches. Anything thicker peeves off consumers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates study. But 0.55 inches is nearly 14 mm — or 4 mm more than HTC’s preferred 10 mm maximum.
Granted, in the crowded Android smartphone space in which HTC mainly sells its wares, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to boldly differentiate one device from the other. So making the thinnest phone around is one way to appeal to consumers, especially because many people judge phones by looks first.
“When people are in the market for a new phone, the first thing they go for is appearance, including thinness and all of the soft attributes,” Parsons said. “But when it really comes down to it, and people start to use their phones on a daily basis, appearance goes away and functionality is more important.”
It seems unlikely — silly, even — that a few millimeters would offset the benefits of having a longer Dell Vostro 1400 battery life, so Parson’s explanation makes more sense. When you hold the HTC One S in your hand, it feels noticeably thinner than other smartphones, and that can certainly play in the device’s favor when people walk into a T-Mobile or Best Buy looking for a new phone.
But as Parsons notes, it’s not the best long-term strategy. If users are dissatisfied with battery life, they aren’t likely to purchase a phone from the same manufacturer again.
Regardless, it’s not like HTC doesn’t take battery performance seriously. “We spent a lot of time finding other ways [to maximize battery life] than the brute force approach,” Kilburn said, according to PC Magazine.
For example, HTC’s One X’s Super LCD 2 screen is more energy-efficient than AMOLED screens, and the company continues to work on better power management in its software. And compared to the majority of available smartphones, the latest HTC phones have average battery lives.
But average isn’t always good enough — that’s why there’s an entire market for battery packs that make our smartphones last longer, even with heavy use and forgotten charges. So far, Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx most successfully marries battery for hp mini 1000 performance with device thinness. It has the longest smartphone battery life — lasting 21.5 hours of continuous talk time, according to the company — and is only 8.99mm thick.
“If you have to choose between the two, the majority of people would choose battery performance as opposed to a phone’s thinness,” Parsons states. “On a scale of what’s important, battery performance is much higher than thinness.”

katestwins 8 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

Once again, according to Wired, if it is not an Apple product, it must suck. However, right off the bat they state "

The upcoming One X features a slightly larger 1800 mAh battery, and is 8.9 mm thick. (For comparison, the iPhone is 9.3mm thick and has a 1432 mAh battery)" This clearly means that the HTC is both thinner and has a larger Toshiba pa3420u-1brs Battery that the Iphone. Then they say that it has a more energy efficient screen and better power management. So why are they being slammed for having a nice thin phone? Oh that's right because it does not say apple on it. It if did Wired would be bragging about how thin and fantastic it is.

Alec Winograd 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

Despite the iPhone's smaller battery, it still gets way better battery life than any Android phone I've seen. Wired isn't really "bashing" HTC b/c of the battery's size--it's all about battery life. This is coming from the owner of a Captivate...

Publicaccess 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

You are right. Put an Apple logo on it and Wired would have it on the front page as the best phone ever.  Unfortunately Wired has become so bias that anything not apple can't possibly be any good. So we end up with pathetic stories like this. Instead of highlighting new features and designs that end users would love, they make negative statements that aren't even accurate. But based on their own statements, it is clear that everyone in the world would prefer a One X with it's 1800 mAh Canon Digital Ixus 75 Battery of the IPhone's measly 1432 battery. Of course the reverse is also true, never believe anything Wired says about Apple products because you know they have been drinking the Kool-aid.

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 try to search "iphone" and "battery life" on wired...

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Full Metal Pizza 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

Or, you can google "htc one s battery life" and find that while it's not the king of the hill it isn't the bottom of the barrel either. In any case if the Acer Aspire 5740 Battery life is a point when choosing a phone then you'll shop for the one with the best mix of features and battery life.

Asch Buca 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

... because they can?
This is a huge market. There are people out there who prefer thin phones and don't have as much of a need for a huge battery life. I got home from a full day of work today, and my phone was still above 80% battery. It would be great to trade in some of that extra battery life for a smaller phone.
There are demands for all sorts of devices. Thin ones, ones with extra long Apple Macbook Pro 15 Inch ma609j/A Battery life, ones with real keyboards, etc. Don't try to say "consumers prefer..." because consumers all want different things.

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symbolset 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

Exactly.  This is "fragmentation" and it's a good thing.  They are not little boxes made of ticky tacky. Phones do not have to be all the same. 

nhfoley 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

I agree completely.
And to add: a battery's mAh is a red herring when it comes to phone battery life, as HTC points out. My Motorola Atrix (a phone with a relatively large HP Compaq Business Notebook NC6400 Battery) had 10-14 hours of useful battery life with the software it was shipped with.  With a custom ROM (that is even more feature-rich) I'm getting easily twice that time.
Now to be clear, I'm not advocating that every consumer needs to hack their phone... obviously that isn't a valid solution. But it does clearly illustrate that battery life is much more dependent on an intelligent use of mAs and not just a total mAh pissing contest.
I'd gladly pay for sleek, minimal hardware and give it intelligent software, than hardware that has added bulk to make up for inadequacies in software.

illuminaut 4 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

"When people are in the market for a new phone, the first thing they go for is appearance, including thinness and all of the soft attributes,” Parsons said. “But when it really comes down to it, and people start to use their phones on a daily basis, appearance goes away and functionality is more important.”
^^^ Sums up the entire article.
Blame it on us stupid consumers. Smartphones have turned from an enthusiast's and business user's niche device into a mass commodity, so therefore form will trump function up to a point. Smartphone makers targeting soccer moms, teenagers, and first-time users will have much better success by focusing on pretty looks than spouting mAh numbers. There'll be one or two models geared towards enthusiasts, the rest is aimed at the masses. It's not like a phone with a 1650mAh would be useless. If all you're doing is checking your facebook wall a few times per day it's plenty.

Mugen Power 3900 mAh Galaxy Nexus extended battery review

Battery life of smartphones is something we all wish was better. Especially ones like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with a huge screen and 4G LTE. Last week I had the pleasure to test the Mugen Power extended Acer aspire 5720 battery for the Galaxy Nexus coming in at 3900 mAh — a huge improvement over the stock 1750 mAh battery. I wanted to see if it would last the entire weekend. Read on below for my full results and plenty of pictures.


Thursday and Friday we made sure to charge the new Mugen Power 3900 mAh extended Sony pcga-bp2v battery multiple times to give it a good cycle and drain before testing. You can see our hands-on here. The goal was to have it last throughout the entire weekend and I’m happy to report that we achieved just that. The standard 1750 mAh battery that comes with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus barely lasts 8-9 hours on a good day (for me) and using the extended battery I charged up Friday night and it died Monday morning — I loved it.
Now I must start by saying yes the extended battery is fat and ugly, but if you don’t want to fumble with multiple batteries throughout the day or week this is an awesome solution. Before I continue on I’ll just go ahead and post up my results for everyone to see. The Mugen Power 3900 Ext battery for Lenovo 3000 G430 made my Galaxy Nexus last for 2 days and 7 hours — the entire weekend!

Sure, the phone might look like a humpback whale (thanks YouTube) but check out those results above. Now I might not be the heaviest user ever but I do browse the web, check 1000′s of tweets daily, have push email enabled and more so I use my phone plenty. At first I was completely thrown back by the price ($98) and the ugly fat look of my phone but if you can get over that, or are used to using extended Acer Aspire 3000 batteries you won’t have any issues.
After using the phone for the entire weekend I got used to the larger design and almost completely forgot about it. I found myself using that kickstand too — even though it feels extremely cheap. This review is more than just the battery life, it’s also about build quality. That is where things go downhill for me. I love the battery life, and believe it or not I could actually get used to the larger size but the low build quality really threw me off.
The kickstand is super useful and I enjoyed it, but it makes the entire thing feel extremely cheap and really ruins the experience. I’d rather Mugen lose the kickstand in favor of a better more durable battery cover, but that is just me. The rest of the battery door is solid, durable, has a great soft-touch texture for an easy grip and more but that kickstand is a major drag.
I’m happy to report that I’m actually still using the extended battery for Dell Latitude D630  from Mugen Power this week and I’ve not charged my phone since Monday evening. If they tossed out that kickstand and increased the build quality this would be extremely hard to say no to. Whether it will become my everyday battery is still up in the air as I continue testing the durability of the rear cover and kickstand.
Do I recommend this extended Acer Aspire 7735Z battery? Absolutely! Will you want to use a fatter, heavier phone that looks a little funny is up to you. Get it today from Mugen Power’s online store at the link below.
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Laptop-Power, UK Announces New And Premium Quality Laptop Battery Chargers

When it comes to doing supermarket shopping online, college work on a laptop, or checking the latest cinema times online, one won’t get very far without a fully functioning laptop charger. There are many reasons that a laptop charger may not be charging the laptop battery effectively. It may have been lost. It may have been chewed by the family pet. Either way, Laptop Power UK can assist customers worldwide in getting their laptop back in full working order and fully powered up.

Whether it is an HP laptop charger, a Toshiba laptop charger or a Dell laptop adapter – Laptop Power UK has it all. It doesn’t matter whether the laptop was purchased 10 days back or 10 years back, they will have the correct power cable for every laptop. In addition, it will be an original OEM product that they supply which is guaranteed to stand the test of time and be equivalent in quality to the charger that was supplied by the laptop manufacturer. They only supply laptop power products from the leading manufacturers in the world including Delta Electronics, Chicony Power, Hipro and Liteon. Many customers suffer an inferior buying experience online when purchasing laptop chargers since they opt to purchase cheap generic Chinese products. People are suggested to go to Laptop Power, UK – source themselves the original article and get the power issue sorted out once and for all.
LPUK are Europe’s largest independent distributor of laptop adapters and as they say, ‘they know their onions’. The chances are if one simply picks up the phone, their staff will be able to tell him which is the correct part for his laptop within 2 minutes. With all of the laptop chargers guaranteed to be in stock, they can be relied on as the laptop doctor. Whether a person have an urgent piece of coursework to hand in, month end management accounts to process or a dying urge to get back on facebook to speak to the friends,Laptop Power UK can be relied upon and they take immense pride in both the products they supply and service that they offer to all their customers. Next day delivery options are also available on all laptop adapters and therefore each and every product can be delivered within the next business day.
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Police charge man with kidnapping, battery

Athens-Clarke police arrested a man after his girlfriend accused him of forcing her into his car and punching her in the face in the Coleridge Court apartment complex off Lexington Road about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the report.
Eddie Jerome Mayfield, 26, allegedly forced his girlfriend into the car and hit her in the face as he drove through the parking lot, police said. When she called police, he snatched her phone and ran, according to the report. Responding officers were unable to find Mayfield or the victim at that time.
Later, officers responded to an open 911 call from the victim’s apartment. When they arrived, she told them that Mayfield had been there but fled again, according to the report. Officers found Mayfield hiding in the bedroom of his sister’s apartment, which is in the complex, police said.
Police arrested Mayfield and charged him with felony kidnapping, laptop battery, theft by taking and obstruction of a 911 call, according to the report.
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Dal prof takes charge of batteries' lifespan

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES used in electric cars and other emerging technologies need to perform for decades, but how do you tell how long they will last without waiting for them to die?
That is the $4.1-million question Dalhousie University physics and chemistry professor Jeff Dahn and his research team plan to answer with help from a federal Automotive Partnership Canada investment.
“I’m pretty thrilled,” Dahn, a pioneer in lithium-ion Canon Digital Ixus 400 battery development, said about the $4,176,005 investment announced Tuesday through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Dahn said the money will fund a five-year project to build “a serious piece of infrastructure” that will determine in a matter of weeks the lifespan of experimental lithium-ion Canon Lp-e5 batteries by measuring how efficiently they store and deliver electrical charges.
“To develop something that will last 10 to 20 years, you can’t wait,” he said. “You need to know quickly if the battery will last.”
Private-sector project partners include: 3M Canada, a leading supplier of battery materials; GM Canada, which is developing long-range electric cars; Magna E-Car Systems, developing automotive lithium-ion cells; Medtronic Energy and Component Center, producing lithium-ion powered medical devices; and Nova Scotia Power Inc., which has a vested interest in electric cars and could used the Acer Aspire 5552 batteries to smooth fluctuations in wind energy generation.
Dahn said the funding announced Tuesday will add several new researchers to his 25-member lab team.
Private partners will provide lithium-ion cells for testing and other in-kind investment.
David Rodenhiser, a Nova Scotia Power spokesman, said Dahn’s innovations in testing experimental lithium-ion Acer Aspire 5740 batteries could speed up the development of higher-capacity, lower-cost batteries that would have implications for electric cars and the utility’s capacity to store energy to level out wind energy spikes.
“We’re proud to partner in that,” Rodenhiser said.
Nova Scotia Power contributed $30,000 for lab upgrades.
Engineering professor Stephen Corbin, another Dalhousie researcher, received $2,211,530 from the research council for a four-year project to develop low-cost titanium for automotive applications, particularly exhaust systems.
In an interview, Corbin said that titanium is much lighter than steel, which could help improve automobile fuel efficiency, and also resists corrosion that eats steel exhaust systems.
The titanium project also involves researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., and the University of Waterloo and two private-sector partners from Ontario, Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. and Wescast Industries in Brantford.
Corbin said 17 researchers will be involved in the project.

Rumourmodo: Lenovo’s Laptops May Reject Third Party Batteries

The model of rejecting refills is one that’s bought in big bucks for the printer industry; so much so that the most expensive fluid in the world is indeed printer ink. Is that a model that will translate to laptop batteries? Lenovo is apparently mulling the idea around.

The Verge reports on the plan, which will apparently be called “Battery Safeguard”, and will detect whether an authentic Lenovo battery ’s been inserted in new laptops in the ThinkPad Edge ranges. Put in a third party battery, and, so the story goes, you’ll get a flashing message stating “Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached”, rather than the power you were seeking.

Third party hp compaq batteries aren’t quite the profit minefield that ink refills are for the IT industry, but this’ll be an interesting step to take if it is indeed true, especially if you wanted a replacement hp compaq battery for a range that a particular vendor no longer sells.

Lenovo laptops will reject third-party batteries, starting with ThinkPad Edge in May?
As we reported at CES, Lenovo is planning a refresh of its ThinkPad Edge mainstream laptop line, bringing Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors and some USB 3.0 ports in a slightly lighter design. Now, a source tells us that the new ThinkPad Edge E430 and E530 will be the first of the company's laptops to bring a feature you probably don't want: "Battery Safeguard." Though the name makes it sound like additional protection for your HP COMPAQ business notebook nx6325 battery, our source says it's actually all about protecting Lenovo's bottom line, as it's designed to make sure only official Lenovo batteries work in Lenovo laptops from now on. Allegedly, the laptop will scan for a special new chip that only Lenovo's battery packs will have installed, and will refuse to work without it.
If that sounds familiar, that's because another electronics category uses the same tactic. For years, printer ink cartridges have been chipped to help guide purchases. If true, this also wouldn't be the first time Lenovo's attempted to steer buyers towards its first-party lithium-ion packs. Some laptops flash the message "Genuine Lenovo thinkpad l412 battery  Not Attached" if aftermarket cells are used.
On an unrelated note, the new E430 and E530 series will apparently have some interesting factory options on tap, but you can't have them all at once. The regular E430 and E530 will have a soft-touch finish, but you can apparently get an aluminum lid and an anti-glare screen in the E430 Plus and E530 Plus... though you sacrifice the 10-key numpad on the 15-inch E530 when you do so. Also, don't expect an AMD chip in May, when these laptops launch. Only the 15-inch model will get an AMD Trinity processor, according to our source, and it allegedly won't show up until June.

Why a DSLR Anyway?

Anyone who has had the dubious pleasure of listening to a Justin Bieber fan trying to articulate the appeal of a star who seemingly can’t even exude testosterone let alone charisma will know photographic terminology can be just as baffling. Often those considering upgrading from a compact camera to a DSLR can’t escape the idea that suddenly the whole thing seems very complicated, just like Justin can’t help running into packs of screaming girls between blow drying his hair. The good news is a DSLR needn’t be complicated unless you want it to be.
There was a time when enthusiast  photographers had to do all sorts of adjustments and measuring and alterations just to take a picture of their cat.   Those days are well behind us.  Today, the entry level DSLR’s such as the Canon NB-5L or Canon 550D to  even the semi-professional Canon 7D have a an AUTO mode: point and shoot.  Your cat could do that - I know mine can.  But the benefits are still there anyway.  DSLR cameras have much larger imaging sensors - the part that captures the light to take the picture - which results in a photograph with much more detail.


What was a going to be a photograph of a puckered collection of wrinkles taken with a compact actually becomes a portrait of my mother in law taken with a Pentax K7. The killer detail for most however is the speed with which DSLR cameras operate.  The minimum rate on the current cameras is at least two frames per second.  C
ompare that to past experiences when the subject of your photograph is walking out of the room when you pressed the button when they were sitting on the couch. Moments worth photographing are often fleeting - an instant response time is an essential tool in the photographer’s kit.  Hence the popularity of DSLR’s with parents: kids do everything but sit still. Suffice to say when you read in your research  - about ISO capabilities, maximum shutter speed, dynamic range, noise reduction, barrel distortion plus vignetting and bracketing and image stabilization -  its easy to get the idea that you are in over your head. However, for most of us a lot of it can remain a mystery.  SLR functions explained I don’t pretend to understand it all myself, just as my niece doesn’t understand why she is taller than Justin Bieber when she is five years younger. The camera can do most of the work. If you want to learn how to tweak the settings for stronger images the potential is there but it needn’t be thought necessary. The dictionary can stay on the shelf - the camera shouldn’t though.  The words may need explanation but pictures never do.
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Battery Maker Couldn’t Make a Profit

ational Battery announces that it could not make a profit, and had to close its Upper Macungie plant, putting about 60 workers out of work.
Last week, International fujitsu lifebook s2020 series battery , on Snowdrift Road, closed its doors after giving employees one-day’s notice.
Yesterday, the company issued a statement through its California public relations firm.
“While International acer btp-43d1 battery has a unique product and green manufacturing process, it has not been able to reach profitability,” the statement says.”‘Unfortunately, given the challenging market, it was unable to raise additional capital to fund its operations.”
International Battery produces rechargeable lithium batteries with an environmentally friendly process, according to its web site. Its “water-based manufacturing process eliminates millions of gallons of NMP (a toxic solvent), while reducing operating and capital costs.”
But apparently the market for Dell Vostro 1400 batteries is “extraordinarily challenging” and the company said it would now sell its equipment and technology to pay off creditors.
About 60 workers had been employed at the factory. It moved to 6845 Snowdrift Rd. in Upper Macungie from a New Jersey site in 2008, lured here by about $4 million in tax incentives and grants from the state.

• Here is the official statement for International Battery from its PR firm, Jennings and Associates Communications Inc.:

The market for energy storage, including lithium ion Dell latitude d630 battery, has been extraordinarily challenging.  While International Battery has a unique product and green manufacturing process, it has not been able to reach profitability.  Unfortunately, given the challenging market, it was unable to raise additional capital to fund its operations. While it is no longer manufacturing any products, it is focusing on selling it assets and technology. Moneys received on account of these assets will be used to pay creditors.

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The New iPad Has a Really Massive Battery

It's basically more battery than anything else.

When Apple unveiled the new iPad (which is now designated as "third gen" from Apple's site), it said boasted that it featured Acer aspire 5740 battery life that was no different from that of the iPad 2.
Having something the same as the previous generation isn't typically something to brag about, but in this case, it is. The battery of the new iPad is 42.5 Wh, which is literally huge. The one in the iPad is just 25 Wh in comparison, making the new one 70 percent greater in capacity.
To put that in perspective, that's more juice than in the 11-inch MacBook Air and nearly as big as the Inspiron 1545 AC Adapter battery in today's 13-inch MacBook Air at 50 Wh.
Obviously LTE brings a lot more dell inspiron 6400 charger battery drain, as evidenced by 4G smartphones. The real need for all that extra power is likely the upgraded screen with its 3.1 million pixels.
The new iPad may be thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, but all that heft and bulk (which is actually quite minimal) has gone to all the places where it counts.
We can't wait to see the teardowns to show us how much of the entire device is just compaq presario r4000 battery.

Joliet man charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, and more

These arrests were taken from Joliet Police arrest information, as well as information from the Will County Adult Detention Facility and Will County Circuit Clerk’s Office.
Residential Burglary

• A 40-year-old Joliet man from the 300 block of South Raynor Avenue was arrested around 1:15 p.m. March 5 for residential burglary during a police contact at a home on the 2200 block of West Jefferson Street. He is scheduled to appear in court March 27 for a preliminary hearing.

Weapons-Related

• A 20-year-old Joliet man from the 800 block of North Raynor Avenue was arrested Feb. 29 for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm during a 7:45 a.m. warrant-related police contact at his home. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

Public Violence

• A 20-year-old Joliet man from the 100 block of Pleasant Street was arrested Feb. 29 for aggravated battery to a peace officer who was responding to a 5:30 a.m. domestic-battery complaint on the 600 block of Summit Street. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

DUI

• A 19-year-old Joliet male from the 800 block of Sherman Street was arrested March 1 for aggravated DUI during a 2:40 a.m. traffic stop at Ottawa McDonough streets during a hit-and-run investigation. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.
• A 30-year-old Crest Hill man from the 1500 block of Pioneer Road was arrested March 1 for aggravated DUI and driving on a suspended license, and ticketed for driving without headlights and improper lane use during a 3:10 a.m. traffic stop at Washington Street and Mississippi Avenue. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

Drug-Related

• A 43-year-old Joliet man from the 2200 block of Tamarack Drive was arrested around 10 p.m. Feb. 29 at his home on a warrant charging him with selling cocaine on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 in Joliet. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 35-year-old Chicago man was arrested March 6 by a special drug unit and subsequently charged with possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in court March 28.
• A 31-year-old Joliet man from the 0-100 block of Broadway Street was arrested March 5 by a special drug unit and subsequently charged with possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in court March 27.
• A 32-year-old Joliet woman convicted Jan. 23 of possession of a controlled substance and firearms possession was arrested March 1 by Illinois State Police and subsequently charged with one count of selling more than 100 grams of cocaine and one count of possession of more than 100 grams of cocaine. The resident of the 200 block of Lincoln Street is scheduled to appear in court March 23 on the new charge.
• A 31-year-old Joliet man from the 1500 block of Glenwood Avenue was arrested Feb. 28 during a 7:10 a.m. warrant-related police contact on the 1100 block of North Charlesworth Avenue and subsequently charged with selling 1-15 grams of cocaine. He also is charged with violating parole on a seven-year sentence for a weapons-related conviction. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 24-year-old Joliet man from the 100 block of Arizona Avenue was arrested Feb. 28 by a special drug unit and charged with selling more than 15 grams of cocaine on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 in Joliet. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 19-year-old Joliet female from the 2200 of West Acres Road was arrested March 6 by a special drug unit and charged with selling more than 15 grams of cocaine.

Prostitution

• A 34-year-old Lombard woman was sentenced to 10 days in jail and given a 12-month suspended sentence March 5 after pleading guilty to prostitution.