Thread: More power for mobile phone and iPod: Kensington Portable Power Pack

Wenns again takes longer, it iPod, Game Boy or cell phone often to power. If, as in the aerospace economy class, the way to the nearest outlet is far, helps the Kensington Portable Power Pack. These are, in principle, to an external battery.

Among them we must, as the picture shows a perfectly chic black image, about as big as a mobile phone and weighs about 100 grams. It contains two lithium-polymer cells, the total 1800 milliampere (mAh) store.

As for the talk of extra-time or game brings depends, of course, power requirements of the mobile device, the Portable Power Pack supplies. Original iPod batteries had, for example, depending on the iPod generation and flavor between 330 mAh (nano) and 1200 mAh (iPod Gen. 1 +2). Standard Nokia batteries (BL-5C) bring it to 850 mAh.

Knowing the battery life of its own device and the resulting playing time, we can with a simple three-sentence Skip approximately how much time now. Five small lights to show how far the PowerPack been discharged. Particularly practical and straightforward is the Kensington additional battery when the device serviced via a mini-USB connector. There are also gone through all necessary cables and adapters.

The battery itself gets on demand from the PC via USB or power over the USB power supply, which in most countries is usable. Additional special adapter for mobile devices can be at Kensington for 15 euros to. The Portable Power Pack itself has approximately 60 euros but not cheap.