Monday, March 16, 2009

extended power trip

For anyone who uses their iPhone to its fullest capabilities, you know that while the features are fruitful, the battery life span is not. PhoneSuit offers extended use time without extending the phone's size, with their sleek MiLi Power Pack....
Batteries. It's one main problem (the other is broadband tech limitations) that keeps us more or less tethered, keeps us from being completely liberated while staying connected.

My iPhone is now worth more than its weight in gold to me. I'm practically joined with this damned sexy piece of gadgetry at the hip (if it had hips). I use it for work, for play, for satisfying my aural fixation, finding my way around town, getting show times, for reminding me of stuff, for endearing Adam Sessler, Maureen Dowd, or Hendrik Hertzberg, for whoring out on high culture on YouTube, for terrorizing my nieces, for visual aid to fantasize about Justin Theroux, for seriously hot pr0n.

Of course, all this lovin' would be impossible if it weren't for what powers the little hand held, touchy feely PC (let's be real here, it's a damn computer that just happens to be able to do phone calls). Unfortunately the embedded lithium ion battery rather sucks. After a day's worth of phone calls, media binging, and video podcast sucking, it needs a serious recharge. Seems Apple scrimped in that department, but on closer inspection it's in part not the battery itself but all the programs and hardware (i.e. bright touch screen) it runs.

Which is why I got this for it. Even then, it doesn't seem enough. That Kensington battery extender only gives the gadget, say, a couple hours or so extra. Thus it makes the PhoneSuit MiLi featured above to be a much more desirable mid to long term investment (fits both my 2G iPhone and the current 3G version, wish I had known of it before I settled on the Kensington mini-brick).

The MiLi, when it's mated with the iPhone, actually conserves the iPhone's battery by first running on its own juice (up to 6.5 hours of web browsing on 3G, no less, 8 hours on Wi-Fi, 31 hours of iPod aural fixation, and 9 hours of downloaded squirrel pr0n), and only when it dwindles down to a scant 5% does it allow the iPhone's inner battery to kick in. As well, I'd be able to send it in for free repair up to a year after buying it.

What else? Oh yeah, it's f00king beautiful. Out of all the iPhone battery extenders out there, this one is the best in terms of both function and form. Design pr0n. Just getting off on looking at it doesn't necessarily consume battery power, right?


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