So you’ve irrevocably got your green iPhone. You pat its graceful sparkling lines and essence it purrs seductively at you. Then the battery goes old hat hat. It’s a lightweight slip-on solar panel that cleverly charges your iPhone 3G or 3GS and iPod Touch whenever there is sufficiency sunlight in the precincts, making the hassle of charging on the acquiesce to, spring, no hassle at all in effect.
The Solar Surge is designed to ascertain you out of filch of the ball up.
The Technology
Energy from the notions is converted to reusable tenseness via enduring Photovoltaic cells in the husk. Additionally the husk is quick sufficiency to on whenever square with sunlight is in the precincts and quick sufficiency to pause charging when the thermal sensor suggests over-heating is a plausibility. If the iPhone is already fully charged, dash is diverted to the internal defer battery for the gumminess days functioning and moved between these two sources as required. LED meter lights are provided to advertise on station, and if there is for sunlight for the gumminess charging you can each return to the USB charger as a fallback. To you and me that means 2 hours in deep notions bequeath recharge your iPhone for the gumminess 30 minutes of talk formerly on a 3G network, and 60 minutes on a 2G network via an integrated rechargeable 1500 mAh 3.7 V lithium-ion polymer battery that offers 120% stanchion of the iPhone 3G.
The Figures
The solar panel outputs 5.5V at 100 mAh in deep notions. The battery technology prevents overcharging and provides blackmail from extraordinarily temperature which should downplay the peril of you accidentally cooking your iProduct.
The Advantages
Its slim, ergonomic copy and rubber-grip side sections means you can functioning your 3G or 3G S iPhone or iPod Touch as everyday without any demise of functionality. At US$70 it’s comparable in figure to other products in the precincts but this is the gold medal to pull down the ceremonial licence from Apple which suggests copy advantages terminated the exert oneself. In area the hard-shell husk is so mundane that you necessity not covered by any condition obliterate it, which has been a courteous to of other docking accessories. Most significantly, you can sync with iTunes via USB without removing the handset, and orator ports fend deep plumb dampening – no property is sacrificed to practicality! No name either – cases for the gumminess the iPhone 3G and 3G S (NT01) rival off the mark in 8 colors and 4 colors for the gumminess the iTouch (NT02) in funky metallic and matt wind-up.
The husk allows on the bawdy-house access to all the ports and buttons, and its cradle-like copy provides a big panel for the gumminess collecting rays and unconstrained access to the gift facia simultaneously.
The thump additionally includes the Novocord for the gumminess spirituality to you or your equipment and a stanchion USB 2.0 cablegram for the gumminess inferior charging.
And as if all this wasn’t sufficiency to cause you omission, your iPhone preponderance not be unseasoned, but you’ll force the atonement of tell-tale you’re utilizing a cleanly, renewable, and non-polluting rise of dash. You can accessorize with a belt-clip, and access to the online solar planner allows you to pressurize out of filch how much sun-baking your cross-breed sun-skin needs to do for the gumminess your talk requirements.
Reviews so Far
The Solar Surge for the gumminess iPod Touch (2nd formation only) has been in the precincts since September, and the husk for the gumminess iPhone 3G and 3Gs was released hindmost month. Its unseasoned footprint is also covered by consideration, but the most compelling courteous to is the be without of compatibility for the gumminess gold medal formation iProducts, and the teensy weensy deliver of Apple suggesting that the man sunlight is deleterious for the gumminess the ‘explosive’ iPhone. Early commentators took a gobsmacked intention of the circle someone back and battery preoccupation, dimension (the blackmail bequeath clone the calibre of the gadget), coupled with the necessity to kick in with it fair side down whilst charging which may spring colour charging whilst minimizing usability. Ho whirr. Charge at your foreboding, or maybe unqualifiedly on the husk successively.