Wind up phone chargers, +reps

[JACKTARD]

Are they any good?

Looking for one for my HTC Hero which uses up a large battery pretty fast for when I go festivalling and stuff.


+reps :)

[Superior]

These exist?! Wow I'd love 1 lol.

[Mathew]

A wind up phone charger... how cool. Never knew they existed :P

I doubt they'd be as effective as a normal one though?

[wizzhan00]

do they exsist im gonna get one where do you get em

[Recursion]

They aren't fantastic lol

[JACKTARD]

I googled them and yeah they exist. I dunno how good they are though because I've never tried one. Think I'm borrowing one soon so I'll post feedback!!

[Apolva]

They're a bit of a wind-up (Sorry for that one :P). Anyway I find them pretty annoying, quite slow at charging my old phone. Good idea for an emergency though.

Really you'd be better off with a battery-powered USB charger (you charge it by mains/USB), then you can charge other USB devices with it for quite a while. For example, my particular one charged my friend's iphone fully about 4 times.

[Apple]

They're a bit of a wind-up (Sorry for that one :P). Anyway I find them pretty annoying, quite slow at charging my old phone. Good idea for an emergency though.

Really you'd be better off with a battery-powered USB charger (you charge it by mains/USB), then you can charge other USB devices with it for quite a while. For example, my particular one charged my friend's iphone fully about 4 times.
Charging an iPhone 4 times in a row without a charge sounds fantastic, how big is it though?

[Apolva]

Charging an iPhone 4 times in a row without a charge sounds fantastic, how big is it though?

About the same size as the iphone itself.

[JACKTARD]

Ooh, sounds really good, have you got a link?

[tm]

I have one.. and a solar charger.
They are a pile of crap. Just get a new battery and carry it around with you then swap it out when you get low on battery.

I have an emergency one that uses 2 AA batteries too but I've never actually used it so I can't really comment.

[Apolva]

Ooh, sounds really good, have you got a link?

Sorry, I can't find the link, but I did find a very expensive (£100) one which claims to charge it 6 times, if you're made of money:
http://www.purelygadgets.co.uk/HyperMac-Mini-7200mAh-External-Battery-for-Apple-iPadiPhoneUSB-%28Black%29/mainproduct/view/32735-BK

7200mAh HyperMac Mini can fully recharge the iPhone 6 times, extending your talk time by up to 72 hours, standby time by up to 1800 hours, Internet use by up to 54 hours, video playback by up to 60 hours and audio playback by up to 180 hours.

[JACKTARD]

Sorry, I can't find the link, but I did find a very expensive (£100) one which claims to charge it 6 times, if you're made of money:
http://www.purelygadgets.co.uk/HyperMac-Mini-7200mAh-External-Battery-for-Apple-iPadiPhoneUSB-%28Black%29/mainproduct/view/32735-BK

I don't wanna spend that much when I'm only gonna use it for a couple of weekends lmao.

I'll probably just get a spare battery

[Sunny.]

I bought a philips power charge pack a few months ago.
Its absolutley amazing. It has 60 hours of power according the website
Can also charge netbooks and some laptops so its pretty cool

http://www.philips.co.uk/c/power-solutions/rechargeable-power-pack-sce7640_12/prd/?t=specifications

I bought it for £30 about 5-6 months ago :)

[JACKTARD]

I bought a philips power charge pack a few months ago.
Its absolutley amazing. It has 60 hours of power according the website
Can also charge netbooks and some laptops so its pretty cool

http://www.philips.co.uk/c/power-solutions/rechargeable-power-pack-sce7640_12/prd/?t=specifications



I bought it for £30 about 5-6 months ago :)

ooh sounds good. Thanks :)