Charger
by Tommy
On Thursday, I was up in Dublin at physio. As always, I took my phone with me and listened to music, read Twitter and caught up on RSS on the journey.
However, when I sitting into the car to go home, I got the ‘warning: less than 20% battery remaining” message.
Ok, I was listening to music for the best part of 2.5 hours, and the screen’s brightness was up at the top but there’s no getting around the fact that 3 hours of battery isn’t wonderful. It’s certainly much less than Apple’s website boasts it is.
Then again, if we add up the amount of time I’ve had my iPhone (11 months) and how old it was according to the eBay seller I bought it off (3 months), it’s nearing the time when one would be beginning to see battery deterioration in electronic goods.
I decided to rectify my battery problems by buying a battery pack from CompuB. I’d have liked one that fitted just like a case around your iPhone but things like that for the 2G iPhone are notoriously hard to come by – the problem when your iPhone’s 2 years out of date.
However, CompuB did have something for me, so future trips to Dublin won’t be met with similar battery woes. It’s handy actually, iPhones aren’t the only thing it charges — anything that connects via USB, so cameras and such are charge-able too. All for €19.99
I haven’t used it fully yet, so I can’t tell if their boasts of ’2 hours extra battery’ are accurate. Full report coming soon!
Coming up next — MusicSunday!