Accessories: Proporta Pocket Power Emergency Charger – hides in wallet for low battery power emergencies
I’ve been a long fan of the folks at Proporta. Being a tech geek requires my gadgets to be juiced up and whilst it’s great to have a spare battery if you can, normally that limits what can be charged. i.e. only where that battery is compatible. I have so many old spare batteries I can’t use any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3V6lPm-Kk&feature=youtu.be
Light turns on temporarily when first charging. It turns off afterwards possibly to save battery. The larger battery packs keep it on, even using it as a charge indicator. When the pack itself is being charged, the individual 3 lights act as an indicator of charging progress and fills blue when done.
I still have my proporta chargers. They’re great for travelling, or bringing with me to Uni knowing I’ll be away from a charger all day and may be using the phone heavily (filming/tethering etc). I remember I went to London with a friend and did not have a pocket charger to go with my Nokia N900. Every 2 hours I had to play the ‘find the plug’ game in order to continue taking snaps/videos. Quite recently since the N8, I’ve had to deal with sealed batteries so bringing spare batteries was never even an option. Another reason I prefer these over spare batteries is that the phone needs to be turned off. Portable chargers are great to keep the phone running. e.g. phone call, recording video etc.
With the Proporta chargers, just pop in the cable and begin charging away. I don’t leave the big 3400mAh batteries in my pocket as they’re a touch too large. Sometimes if I’ve left my bag somewhere, I kick myself for not having the emergency charger. I do however have a mini one but even that sometimes gets forgotten (or worse, I’ve got it but I don’t have the cable).
Perfect for emergencies is Proporta’s new credit card sized, super thin Pocket Emergency Charger. The official name of the product is so unecessarily long though, “TurboCharger Pocket Power Emergency Charger & External Battery Pack”/
It packs only 680mAh of juice. Certainly no where near enough to charge your phones to full or keep them alive on a very busy day. But that’s not what this is for. Go stick with the larger chargers for that. This is for those emergencies when you just needed to make one final phone call or respond to that mail or share a picture of something awesome but your battery just died.
It comes with a short MicroUSB cable to charge it up. You must have plenty of MicroUSB cables/chargers so it’s very easy to charge. The emergency charger itself comes with it’s own built in cable and it looks to be quite durable (an issue I had with those retractable proporta cables is that they broke, rendering your charger useless, though tip – you can use Nokia MicroUSB cables on them now. Older ones didn’t work).
Once charged, just leave it in your pocket and forget about it. Until of course, you’re in an emergency situation and needing some power. No additional cables needed.
This is only £12.95. Not bad for what I consider ‘life savers’ in the geek world.
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Off-topic, but I just love the N9.
I love the N9 more!!! Hahaha :p
Looks good. I’d rather pay £12.95 for an emergency charger that charges various devices than £25 for a (original) spare battery! Not to mention that the date and time reset whenever the battery is changed.
It makes a very good gift too. Not too expensive but definitely something they’ll find really useful. Unless they have an iPhone because they’re allowed to have their proprietary connectors whilst everyone else goes for the universal connection.
I think this is going to save my butt several times.
Agree!!!
how many mAh does this littlw thing have?
680mAh. Not enough to charge the phone all the way but more than enough to make some emergency calls/text/pictures/videos/emails etc.
Wow!!! This looks awsome!!! Too bad I don’t think I can get it at the country I’m at currently… :s.
What country are you in? Proporta have the following countries:
Thanks a lot for the info.
I’m originally from Portugal, but I’m currently in Mozambique (not on the list), though I can probably ask someone from my family to bring it for me when they come to visit.
thanks.
I have the last year model Nokia charger that looks a lot like this but I never thought of putting it in my wallet. A duh moment. I like the way to charge your’s better. The Nokia one needs a thin adapter rather than USB charger.
Nokia dc16 with 2200amh is much better.. In white, and the other color for Nokia lumia but works for all devices with usb port..
Actually we are almost back to 20 year ago, when a battery charge was hardly good for one day. People were fighting for power outlets during meetings.
Then came a time with very energy efficient phones, almost one week with one charge.
My N9 battery lasts for 24-36h, but the E72 was good for a week. The user interface of the N9 is much better, of course, and only here it makes sense to use the browser. But all the basic applications are there on the good old E72, solid, reliable.
Back to the basics, I think sometimes, but at least please much more energy efficient! This is what I would call innovation. I really don’t want to carry an extra battery!