Portable Charger

[StoneCircle]

Though this deserved a thread on chat too!

LusciousLucy had posted about portable chargers on questions and I was looking around earlier for a cheap one, she had posted a link to one on Amazon for over £30 pounds. Her thread also mentioned a Ted Baker charger which someone had picked up fairly cheap.

I have found this and ordered from eBay for £8.99 new! It will charge a mobile device up to 5 times - perfect for Glasonbury without having to mess about changing batteries just charge on the go! Might be handy for the photographers out there too!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300437172581&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:VRI

Thanks LusciousLucy!!

Edited June 13, 2010 by StoneCircle

[jimbo68]

Let us know how well this works as ive tried numerous other makes & none of them were really any good so i now pay a £10 i think it was last year to leave my phone at one of the charger stalls then i come back a couple of hours later to pick up phone all charged up.

[Spindles]

Green fields, just opposite the 50p tea tent last year was a charging stall which did my phone for £3.50. I can't stress strongly enough how good a deal this was.

DO NOT QUEUE ALL DAY FOR CHILL AND CHARGE! CHILL AND CHARGE IS A LIE!!

Sorry, got to rant...I went in there, it's like an oven and I charged my phone for an hour...it received a text message 2 mins after leaving and thend died. It is neither chilling, nor, apparently, charging!

[jimbo68]

Green fields, just opposite the 50p tea tent last year was a charging stall which did my phone for £3.50. I can't stress strongly enough how good a deal this was.

DO NOT QUEUE ALL DAY FOR CHILL AND CHARGE! CHILL AND CHARGE IS A LIE!!

Sorry, got to rant...I went in there, it's like an oven and I charged my phone for an hour...it received a text message 2 mins after leaving and thend died. It is neither chilling, nor, apparently, charging!

[themuel]

I've ordered one of these!!!

[greendotz]

Personally I just use my old school nokia. Can take a hell of a beating, it's no skin off my nose if I loose it and battery lasts about 6-8 days even with excessive use.

[LusciousLucy]

SC you are a star. Ta for saving me from the double post. I can vouch via the Mongrel, this Ted Baker charger is the dogs danglies and well done on locating it for £9.

The official one by ProPorta retails at £30 so yes, this is a beast of a phone charging bad boy.

Go fetch and never see the interior of that stooped chill and charge place.

I have heard rumours of a portable charger that performs like a dynamic. U wear it and as u dance wearing it on yr wrist, it charges up :-) Bloody marvellous!

[LusciousLucy]

Just purchased mine for £7.98. I'd put the link up but it got my personal details on it now. £4.99 plus £2.99 postage.

There has been a run on them from the BT gang this morning. As DaveMac just said, e-sellerexpress must think its his lucky day!

[ghandi]

You can but one of those little battery chargers for £5 at one of the phone kiosks on site. They take AA batteries ( x1) and come with a connector, just walk around with it in your pocket charging. I've still got mine from last year.

[LusciousLucy]

The thing with this portable charger is the fact that once you have charged it up at home on your computer it gives you up to 5 FULL charges over the weekend. Those battery chargers just keep your phone from losing battery but never fully charges. I have got through at least 10 AA batteries in one weekend just keeping my old K800 at about half charged throughout the G.

BUT anything that keeps you from the Chill and Charge is a good thing.

[Guest blackcockerel]

This looks promising! Does anyone know how many charges an iPhone would get out of this? Cheers!

[stuartbert two hats]

The thing with this portable charger is the fact that once you have charged it up at home on your computer it gives you up to 5 FULL charges over the weekend. Those battery chargers just keep your phone from losing battery but never fully charges. I have got through at least 10 AA batteries in one weekend just keeping my old K800 at about half charged throughout the G.

BUT anything that keeps you from the Chill and Charge is a good thing.

Edited May 22, 2010 by stuartbert two hats

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

I can vouch via the Mongrel

[Mr.Tickle]

Ok, if someone can tell me genuinly how many charges an iPhone gets out of this I'll be very grateful

[r0cky]

Ok, if someone can tell me genuinly how many charges an iPhone gets out of this I'll be very grateful

[StoneCircle]

Ok, if someone can tell me genuinly how many charges an iPhone gets out of this I'll be very grateful

[themuel]

Yeah, but does it?

Bet you a tenner you don't get anything like five charges, especially if you want to take loads of photos and videos and spend a lot of time on your phone trying to locate your mates.

[r0cky]

I don't have an iphone as I am a smartphone user. I did do lots of looking into this before I bought and it would appear that the Ted Baker model is a rebranded Proporta 3400, I know it comes with an ipod adaptor so is this is the same for an iphone?? There are loads of reviews on the net about this. Have a dig around and I am sure you will find the answer. I have added the Amazon reviews by Apple users of the Proporta below, however remember the Ted Baker model on eBay is a lot lot cheaper!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proporta-30423-USB...ef=pd_rhf_p_t_3

[stuartbert two hats]

I read loads of reviews before I ordered one and it seems that they do actually work.

Your second point doesn't really make any sense. All that doing all of the things you list will do is drain your battery quicker, it won't make any difference whatsoever to how many times you will be able to charge it up surely.

[themuel]

Oh yeah, you're right it made no sense what I said, whoops. I conflated two points, one of which I didn't really state.

What I meant was, I bet you'll run out of charge for two reasons. Firstly, I don't believe it will give you five charges, secondly if you hammer your phone then even five charges may not be enough. With AA batteries you effectively have infinite charge.

Does that make more sense?

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

They definitely work on iPhone cause we charged ours at Bearded Theory. We got 2 full charges out of it but it's supposed to do five. I think maybe after a few charges it may stretch to more, but to be fair, at that price you may as well buy two or three anyway. They also come with a car charger so you can also do it on the way home

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

You could also probably sell the bag it comes in as some sort of designer coin purse for more than you paid for the charger. Seriously, it's a sexy bit of Ted Baker branded draw string suede

[LusciousLucy]

Ask yourself this...why would I have recommended this after witnessing it in use and having been used on an iPhone and therefore recommended by one of your fellow efesters?

Mrs Mongrel found the Ted Baker charger for the Mongrel, he used his phone ALL wkend at BT and used the charger on a couple of occasions. I think it can be safely said that this piece of equipment comes with excellent personal reviews so seriously no need to worry.

Look at it this way, one ickle charger with the potential to keep your phone going all festy wkend for less than a tenner or pay a tenner for a charger at the fest that u have to keep buying batteries for that doesn't even fully charge yr phone at any point...and certainly doesn't cater for IPhones.

[Boothy-Boi']

Well we have sony ericsson X10's but i have decided to take our old LG Cookies/810i and purchase spare batteries off ebay (which can be very cheap) and charge them before we leave. I'm afraid mazumamobile.com will have to wait

[r0cky]

They definitely work on iPhone cause we charged ours at Bearded Theory. We got 2 full charges out of it but it's supposed to do five. I think maybe after a few charges it may stretch to more, but to be fair, at that price you may as well buy two or three anyway. They also come with a car charger so you can also do it on the way home