HTC Battery Bank!
One of the biggest questions I see here on the forum is “How do I make my battery last longer?” While you can tweak your phone and get a couple extra hours from it, most of us still need to plug into a car or wall at least once a day. The problem with that is you need a car or wall outlet. That is where HTC comes to the rescue.
Introducing the new HTC Battery Bank
Features:
- HTC’s Battery Bank offers a 2680 mAh battery, and is advertised as providing "the ability to charge your device up to three times.” That is probably not true for most phones these days but can defiantly make a difference.
- HTC’s Battery Bank utilizes a standard Female USB connector to power your mobile device.
- The Bank itself is charged using one of HTC’s ExtUSB connectors, allowing you to use a mini-USB cable or any HTC charger. A mini-USB cable is included, and can be used for either purpose
- One of the nice things about this Battery Bank is that power is output at USB 2.0 standards of 5VDC and 1000mA, so there shouldn’t be any issue using this with micro-USB or proprietary USB cables.
The Battery Bank also features a LED power meter on the side. This meter stays lit when charging, or activates after the button is pressed in order to give you a quick read on your power level.
how much is this thing?
70 bucks..
hopefully will be sold in out own ppcgeeks store…
+1…..sounds good….when is it being released?
Can’t promised anything. We can all hope that PPCG carries it in their upcoming store. It would be nice to support PPCG at the same time as getting somthing we want. If you need it now, you can always try http://tinyurl.com/ngjnrf
There are plenty of other options that are FAR cheaper, maybe not as compact, but $700 for basically 2 (or less) charges is insane. Like this Duracell mobile pack that’s around $100 anf is 4000mAh.
Duracell PowerSource Mobile 100
Doh, the battery bank is $70, missed that. Still think I like the Duracell better, if I were in the market for one.
I have 2 batteries I never have a problem. Bought a cheap aftermarket battery paid less then $10 its lasted over 6 mos. so far and keeps the phone running for about 6 hrs with heavy use.
Doh….LOL
The easiest thing i found is those energizer chargers that use 2 double aa’s. i was able to charge my phone about 2 times using regular aa’s. it only cost me 19 bucks. if this werent so expensive i would consider it cuz i cant last through my day with the stock battery.
sprint released something like this a couple of years ago. I love it, its awesome…It does last for 2 charges and found it on Ebay for 25 bucks brand new. Good idea by HTC but not a new idea.
you can get a “Swiss Gear Battery Bank” on amazon for around $12 shipped!
also checkout the “Xantrex Technologies 852-0251″ on amazon… they have that for around $30 shipped
it seems more promising!
Radio Shack just launched some green products…. igo with usb support and li-ion built-in to the charger…. and some solar options as well.