Major Problem: the iPhone/iPad battery charger and compared

Say they can never be too small or too rich, and with regard to the average iPhone or the iPad user, you can never have enough power. Personal hotspots, FaceTime, and many games push the battery within the limits. Fortunately, a lot of products in different styles, there is the aid contested power. Best? Depends on what you want to use this program.

The battery is generally measured in milliamp hours (mAh). The more of these to your disposal, you'll have more reserve battery. Them more power, however, larger battery is generally the intention. You got some choices and tradeoffs that. Generally there are two styles of external chargers: integrated charger case style, which thicken the phone providing power and charger dongle style, which hangs off the dock connector of the phone.

Super juice Dexim iPhone 4

If you are interested in the case of the integrated battery for iPhone 4 Dexim's Super juice (retail $ 69.99) is the best mix of power and functions. Firstly, has the battery mAh 2000 allows for six additional hours of talk time. What makes this battery from, please Pun is nice little stand kick back, which allows you to prop it horizontally for easy viewing of the video. Unlike version Mophie (Juice Pack Plus), the upper part, in the case of the Dexim is integrated in the design, so it may be lost (after the first week of testing the juice Pack Plus, losing the top!) Dexim retails for approximately 30 per cent less than that of Mophie. Unfortunately, Dexim only comes white, Mophie juice Pack while Plus comes in various colors — white included.

ChargeBlockXL

For the smaller increase in power during the day and absolutely fell in love with chargeblock XL (retail $ 39.99) Miccus. With 1500 mAh power it will give you a significant growth, and its compact design makes it easy for curved to fit in your pocket or purse, then attach to each device with a standard dock charger. It was the Chargers only external dongle style and can keep using holding the iPhone. Other charger dongle style only to spatial or fragile hold while connected.

However, a strong runner-up in this category is Mophie juice Pack Boost in ($ 59.95). While not as compact as Chargeblock (of size similar to the iPod classic), has a built-in Carbine attach it to almost everything and doubles as a flashlight! I have trouble with raised, 30-pin connector for maintaining a permanent connection to my iPhone Boost Pack of juice, and it was impossible to hold the iPhone, so Chargeblock is my first choice for everyday use.

Kensington PowerLift

To uploading My iPhone while on the plane (or anywhere else where it will not use your phone to speak), I really liked two of the various products of Kensington. My first choice was Kensington travel battery pack and charger (retail $ 69.99). It provides 1500 mAh of energy, but his CAP to the docking station work as built-in support horizontal stand (similar in function to the juice Super Dexim) so you can watch a video on the plane of the hands. In other cases, the CAP dock was a nuisance, it added too much bulk to the iPhone and fell during phone calls. Shortly after Macworld, kensington powerlift ($ 49.99) has been released. The charger delivers 1200 mAh of energy and has a built-in stand vertical, which is ideal for FaceTime. The stand is integrated and fully, you can make on the side. PowerLift is my first choice for the style of the battery, and update the one in my Office as convenient iPhone charging station.

Taking into account the requirements for power extreme iPad, the field is a little thin for iPad users. Only two devices I tested provided sufficient power to really extend the iPad battery (and skyrocketed My power iPhone!). One was Richard Solo 9000 mAh, charger (retail $ 69.95). When a great product it was quite bulky. I found it difficult to carry around with me, how easy does not place it in most cases, and certainly not my pocket. However, 9000 mAh made leader in capacity. While Miccus ChargeBlock for the iPad (99.99 retail) provided that the 8200 mAh of energy, but take it from a design almost identical size and shape of the iPhone 3 G and hence is very easy to carry around with you. Convenience, more than made up for the loss of capacity. Cool flashing blue lights didn't hurt my love this product.

Dexim BluePack S8

In General, My favorite charger was dexim bluepack s8 (retail $ 79.90). Although it was small and elegant (slightly smaller than the iPhone (4) in the package), for 3000 mAh of energy and built-in flashlight — as well as a slew of USB adapters for not only the 30-pin connector, but also Micro and Mini USB charging. However, bypassed using these and chose to carry around with me Scoche flipSYNC (retail $ 19.99), which is free of charge and sync the iPhone cable carriage around with you on a keychain. Keep the two devices in my laptop bag and use them on a daily basis.

As you can see, I got a little obsessive in finding just the right external iPhone and iPad charger. I'm very heavy iPhone user and you cannot make it to dinner without slightly increase. I think that my iPhone has become too much like its owner!

Disclosure: All the equipment was delivered by producers and so Dave got actual charges with all tests.