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Wednesday February 15, 2006
Review : BlueThunder Charger Mate
By Nelson Thing
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.
Pros:
Multipurpose charger, bundle with 7 different adapters for various handphone, Digital Camera, PDA and MP3 player.
Use USB to charge any digital gadget which has USB power cable
Build in power protection circuit to prevent any short circuit.
Cons:
I wish I could use it to full charge my K700i for 10 times with its single charge, so that I could bring it out of the town
for traveling for more than 3 weeks without worry about my handphone out of the battery power :D Ok.. I am kind of
greedy.
Review set courtesy of Digital Integrated System Sdn Bhd, 1-800-88-5506
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