New gadget in the market-Blue Thunder Charger Mate
Heh friends, i happens to come through this artucle when i was surfing the net. I think this gadget is really cool and it will be really handy. So just check it out.
http://www.mobile88.com/news/read.asp?file=/2006/2/15/20060214222656&sec=cover+story
If you guys wanted to check out the pics, then just log in to the web address as mentioned above. Its something worth fo own
Review : BlueThunder Charger Mate
On Friday, 3rd Feb, I went to meet a friend at KLCC, kind of rush as I need to go to 3 different bank for some bank service before I meet the friend. After meet up at Burger King then only I notice that my handphone out of the battery power.
It is kind of embarrass as I couldn't contact the other friend who is coming over to meet me, and I couldn't remember my friend's handphone no, as those no are stored inside my hp. The typical problem of modern people, I.e. lots of no to memories, too few space at brand memory to remember them.
Ok ok.. kind of out of the topic over here... what I was thinking is that, a handphone charger. But even I got those ordinary charger, I might have the problem to get a power. e.g. Burger King doesn't provide me the necessary power socket. Hence this Thunder Battery Charger comes in handy.
Introducing the multi-purpose battery charger Charger Mate from Blue Thunder. It is not an ordinary gadget charger that you have at home, but this one have the battery build-in. What? A charger with a battery inside? Yup, you read me correctly. While other charger need you to plug it into the power wall socket, this one can directly charger up your digital gadget without external power. Yup.. any digital gadget that can use USB to charge.
Ok I admit I am wrong, it still need to use wall power socket to charge it's own battery =D. What you need to do is that, plug it into the wall power socket by using bundle USB to 3.5mm jack adapter and the power socket or via Notebook USB port in case run out of power socket. But once it is fully charged, you can just bring it and charge your hp with up to maximum 3-4 full charge without running out of the internal battery power, as estimated. The number of the full charge to the gadget may vary depending on your digital gadget battery capacity.
Bundle are 7 different type of adapters used to plug into your handphone, namely Motorola, Nokia, SonyEricsson/Ericsson, if that is not enough, you can use your own USB cable to directly plug into it to charge your digital gadget. For instance, I plug my DELL Axim X50v PDA by using DELL USB sync cable, with no difficulty, it charge my pda. Charging my SonyEricsson K700i used up 1.5hr, same as the time for normal charging by using existing power adapter charger.
As usual, before use this gadget, I charge it for 8 hours for the first time. While charging it (internal battery), the socket will have very bright blue LED light and the battery side has a blue LED as well to indicate a charging progress. After the charging finish, the plug socket LED will be turn off, left the battery's blue LED continue to light on. There is a battery power bar indicator to help u to know the power capacity left, 20-40%, 60%, 100% if all 3 light are on.
Before you want to charge your gadget, just to make sure the correct charging voltage to be selected. There are 3 different voltage, 3.7V, 5V and 6V. As for my SonyEricsson K700i charger, it is having 4.9V as output, hence I am using the 5V to charge K700i. Using the wrong voltage will cause the charging in vain. Hence, remember to check your existing charger voltage output before you use it.
A full charge to my SonyEricsson K700i, used up the 30-40% of the interval power. Charging is simple, just plug the bundle USB cable, with the handphone adapter, and then plug the adapter into the handphone, the charging will be started immediately.
If there is any short circuit happens, the charging will be stopped immediately, and you couldn't charge your gadget anymore. Even pressing the battery power bar to check the remaining battery capacity will be in vain. You have to charge the Charger Mate in order to release the lock protection. A thumb up for this!
At around RM150, Power Mate comes with internal battery which can help to charge up to 3 times to my K700i and not to say that it can be charged up to 500 times. It really serves it purpose as emergency power kits while you are out of the town and electricity power is out of your reach.
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