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- Compatible with standard cellphones (including Nokia and Mini-Nokia, LG Chocolate, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Motorola) and other digital devices
- Pulse Charging technology ensures long battery life
- Soft touch one button technology - Auto Lock when charging or recharging
- Incorrect battery polarity protection - unit will not operate if you insert batteries incorrectly
- 2 AA Powertraveller long shelf life Ni-MH
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PowerTraveller Powerchimp - Grey Features At A Glance - Introducing - the powerchimp! A nifty little emergency charger for most handheld gadgets which can also re-juice rechargeable batteries! Use it to recharge a standard mobile phone, iPod/MP3, PDA, PSP and other digital devices! Choose from grey, blue, pink or yellow and you'll wonder how you ever lived without this little chap! The powerchimp works by using the two included rechargeable AA batteries to power your devices and will recharge most standard mobile phones once fully before the batteries in the chimp will need recharging (not suitable for power-hungry smartphones such as iPhone 4/3GS or touchscreen MP3 players such as iPod Touch). We also now include two clever little adaptors that you can put two AAA rechargeable batteries (not included) into and then pop them into the powerchimp unit, so the powerchimp will run off AAA as well! The powerchimp portable charger comes complete with a Made for iPod" approved charging tip, so you can re-juice your iPod whenever you run out of power! Use the solarmonkey portable solar charger to recharge it...Why not take advantage of our complete convergent charging solution and team up your powerchimp with one of our solarmonkeys? Use this compact solar charger to recharge the batteries inside the powerchimp from the power of the sun! When using the solarmonkey to recharge the powerchimp, the LED on the chimp may flash red if the solar strength is low - continuous red LED means that the powerchimp is being charged. Alternatively, once your little powerchimp has used all its juice, simply connect it to your computer's USB socket via the included retractable USB charging cable and recharge its poor exhausted batteries! When charging, the LED will be continuously red, once it's fully charged, the LED will turn green. The powerchimp also features quick battery charging with over charge / discharge protection and a pulse charging technology system to ensure long bat
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this product thinking that it would be ideal. I have rechargeable batteries for when I'm prepared and can use regular AA batteries for when I run out or need extra power. I have found that whatever batteries I use, it only charges my phone for about 20 minutes. Increases the battery capacity by about 10% before the batteries being depleted. Same story despite using brand new Duracell batteries. I tried this on 2 phones with the main one being the T-Mobile G1. Same result. I may have a faulty device but I think it is just a poor product.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is a solution I really need. I often hike in the country and am away from power sockets. I also have a thirsty Nokia N95 which will flatten the battery in 2 or 3 hours playing MP3s, so this seems like a good solution. I bought one at an airport and, like another reviewer, another at Glastonbury Festival 2008 so my opinion is not based on one flawed model.
Firstly for some odd reason the mini Nokia plug seems to fit in such a way that it disconnects itself easily so that you have to jiggle it until the charge light comes on. In fairness that seems to be the fault of the Nokia plug type not the PowerChimp but it doesn't help because if you stuff the phone and charger in your bag thinking it is charging it isn't. This doesn't happen with the mains charger for some reason.
More problematic is that it charges amazingly slowly. Using the mains charger you can fully recharge a flat battery in an hour and a half or thereabouts. Using either rechargeable (2500Mah) batteries or Duracells the charger* says* it is charging, but even after many hours you seem to get only one or two bars on the phone's battery. Why this is I don't know: cheap electronics that don't let the phone draw power fast enough while *still* flattening the charging battery? Also when the phone battery went completely flat the PowerChimp wasn't able to revive it and I had to spend a day without a phone. Bad.
This device let me down totally - it blows. Trouble is there don't seem to be any similar devices that do a better job (Though at Glastonbury people were reselling what looked like a rebranded version of the same thing - a Thumbs Up device also available on Amazon - that is in a slightly larger blue metal case but that also sucked: Thumbs Down in fact).
It's cheap & so it is worth a try, you might get lucky, but don't rely on it.
Firstly for some odd reason the mini Nokia plug seems to fit in such a way that it disconnects itself easily so that you have to jiggle it until the charge light comes on. In fairness that seems to be the fault of the Nokia plug type not the PowerChimp but it doesn't help because if you stuff the phone and charger in your bag thinking it is charging it isn't. This doesn't happen with the mains charger for some reason.
More problematic is that it charges amazingly slowly. Using the mains charger you can fully recharge a flat battery in an hour and a half or thereabouts. Using either rechargeable (2500Mah) batteries or Duracells the charger* says* it is charging, but even after many hours you seem to get only one or two bars on the phone's battery. Why this is I don't know: cheap electronics that don't let the phone draw power fast enough while *still* flattening the charging battery? Also when the phone battery went completely flat the PowerChimp wasn't able to revive it and I had to spend a day without a phone. Bad.
This device let me down totally - it blows. Trouble is there don't seem to be any similar devices that do a better job (Though at Glastonbury people were reselling what looked like a rebranded version of the same thing - a Thumbs Up device also available on Amazon - that is in a slightly larger blue metal case but that also sucked: Thumbs Down in fact).
It's cheap & so it is worth a try, you might get lucky, but don't rely on it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I returned to this page to replace the one I lost. I was suprised by some of the comments. This worked much better than the other models I tried. I found that the best batteries to use were high power rated (2100-2700mh) NI-MHs. Compare them to non-rechargables in a digital camera to see the difference. I was able to charge my phone twice off a fully charged set of 2700s. I have found some makes (Toshiba /Motorola) using mini-usb connectors would not accept charges, so make of phone can be critical. The former was non-standard, the latter would drain the battery but barely charged. Range of adapters, accessories were also welcome. Charging light is re-assuring and also makes impromptu hand warmer, so be careful where you put it down! Enjoy.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent, so long as you know why you get it.
First of all, this is by no means at all a phone charger (not for smartphones at least). It cannot provide enough power throughput and so it isn't fit for that purpose, unless of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by N
Good emergency power
Think of this as a cheaper version of the Power Monkey Powertraveller Powermonkey-Classic Portable Charger - Black charger. The difference is the amount of stored power. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dave M
Power charger
Great devise for all electric items. Meant when travelling that only needed one charger for mobiles, ds and ipods. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Su D
Disappointing
The first time I tried charging my Nexus One on this, it took it from 60% to about 90% before running out of puff, not very good considering the batteries in it are about equal to... Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by I. Rawlings
Does not work with Iphone 3Gs
Good little product but it does not work with an Iphone 3gs. My daughter is now using it with her Nokia N96 whilst I look for an alternative power boost device.
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by RussHC
Important you read this
I have saved myself from writing this review while I used the device for a couple of weeks to get some cycles in those rechargeable batteries. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2009 by Barry Hall
powerchimp charger
as the iphone 3gs is very heavy on power. this is a brilliant charger to carry around in your pocket. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by Alan Semple
Very useful but isn't the most suitable model for charging smart...
This does a great job for all the devices mentioned however beware that as I found out, while it will do a good job of charging the simpler mobile phones of today, it will not... Read more
Published on 24 July 2009 by Fussyduck
Does not charge for very long at all
I bought this product thinking that it would be ideal. I have rechargeable batteries for when I'm prepared and can use regular AA batteries for when I run out or need extra power. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2009 by Milan
It gives with one hand, but takes it back if you ain't looking
The Powerchimp seemed like a good idea because I could increase the milliampage of the batteries used to charge anything - or so I thought. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2008 by Seth Toolkit Jr
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