May
Mophie juice pack gives your iPhone extra juice
The iPhone battery is known for not lasting nearly as long as it should. In my case, I tend to charge it at the end of each night, sometimes sooner, since I use it for not only phone calls but also texting, e-mailing, gaming and extensive Web browsing. Based on my usage, it’s understandable that it drains so quick. So, how can I do mindless surfing at the end of the night when the power is just about gone? Enter mophie’s juice pack.
The juice pack is basically an external battery for your iPhone. It comes integrated into a sled that you slide your iPhone into, and when you do, your iPhone is powered and ready to rock. Calling it an external battery is a gross oversimplification, though. For starters, the mophie juice pack is sleek looking and has a great feel, too. It’s not much larger than the iPhone and manages to keep the feel and style of the iphone intact.
The mophie juice pack features a non-slip, rubber-like outer coating. Integrated into the sled is a lithium polymer battery. On the back are four LED status indicators and a button that when pressed illuminates some or all of the LED indicators, showing you how much power you have left. These same LEDs will blink while the juice pack is charging, and will illuminate all or some, depending on how full the battery is.
As for charging, when you go to charge the mophie juice pack, it charges both the juice pack and the iPhone at the same time. According to the company, the mophie juice pack is rechargeable for over 500 full cycles. That means that you can feel free to top off the battery as often as you want, since a bunch of partials will equal one full.
My favorite part about the mophie juice pack is that it’s designed to drain itself first. So, if you start using the juice pack and you have a nearly dead iPhone, by the time you’re done, your iPhone will be fully charged.
This is definitely a must-have for every iPhone user. With the iPhone coming with a non user-replacable battery, this is a nice solution for extending the life of your iPhone before having to send it back to Apple to have the battery replaced.
I’ve also been taking the juice pack on the road with me instead of a car charger now, since I can just use it to top off the iPhone’s battery whenever I feel the need.
Read more about the iPhone mophie juice pack or purchase it for $99.95 at Mophie.com.