Plugging the phone into the wall for an hour or two every couple days is retarded when you can go over a week and only have to spend ten seconds replacing three AA batteries. After that, you're good for another week. I'm sick of crappy battery life, and this is a solution--one that I like. My phone used to have a pathetic energy system like your phone and most others. It has since been converted to a better solution.
Reasons why it is nice:
- 3 AA NiMH batteries cost about $3. Compare to 20-30-40 dollars for a lithium ion pack from Nokia/Audiovox/etc.
- 3 AA NiMH batteries last 180 hours under heavy usage. Compare to 36 hours for the high capacity lithium ion pack for this phone.
- The external battery pack actually improves the feel of the phone and helps the it sit well on a table without moving from the slightest tap.
- You can essentially recharge your phone at your leisure. Keep a spare set or two and you can recharge the batteries when you want, not when your phone goes dead in the middle of a call. Unless you had a spare phone, you'd be hard pressed to do this with normal battery packs.
- With over a week of uptime, you can go visit somewhere for the weekend and not have to worry about a recharge/needing your charger.
- Go somewhere for a long time and forget your charger? Everybody and their pet dog's pet June bug has a AA battery charger. You aren't SOL just because you forgot your phone's proprietary charger.
- Changing batteries takes all of ten seconds. Charging a phone normally takes hours. If you were in the middle of a call, you aren't tied to the wall--simply insert new cells and charge the old ones at your leisure.
