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Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 3G
January 26, 2009, 6:27 PM by ROB
Posted in REVIEWS, MOBILE, GADGETS | 368 views
If you, like me, are displeased with the iPhone 3G's battery life and the loads of tips on how to improve it are no match for your interweb-crawling Safari-pounding index finger, good news is here: there is a solution.
For just under $100 ($99.95 to be exact), you can double your talk, texting, and surf time with the mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 3G. While it's a bit pricey—I wouldn't recommend it for the casual user—if you're a bandwidth hog, I'll guarantee that this product will save you in a pinch. After a lengthy Pandora Radio Listen-O-Thon, a series of huge App Store downloads, or (heaven forbid) a couple hours of running PDAnet to route your internet connection through your (jailbroken) iPhone to your laptop, you're likely to need a recharge and, sometimes, there's no outlet available.
Thank goodness for the Juice Pack. The vendor advertises that you'll get an extra 6 hours of talk time or data usage on a 3G connection (up to 12 hours on 2G) and up to 28 hours of continuous audio playback off of one charge. I'm a hardcore user of my iPhone and the Juice Pack will keep me running all day.
It's just icing on an already-scrumptious cake, but the Juice Pack is also the first attached auxilliary power source to be labelled as a "Works with iPhone 3G" product. It will even let you sync and charge the battery through your iPhone connection cable at the same time.
One minor annoyance is that when using a third-party charger with a mini-USB tip, the juice pack will charge, but the phone refuses to do so. This, I'm sure, is to maintain compliance with Apple's "Works with iPhone 3G" standards, but it would be nice if it would do so.
Our rating: 5/5
mophie Juice Pack
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