Proporta Mobile Survival Kit

Jan 6, 2008 at 8:52 AM
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Being a bit paranoid about the poor performance of the battery in the N95, I decided not long after getting the phone to purchase the portable power pack (Mobile Survival Kit) from Proporta.

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I should say right at the start that I'm rarely far from an electric power point and Nokia charger, whether that be at home, in the office or in the car. My idea of getting the Proporta was for those times when I'm on holiday walking across the Cornish moors and in need of GPS, or Google Maps. See, I told you I was paranoid!

Anyway, the kit comes with multiple connectors for various phones, and the battery is charged via a USB port from the PC although an adaptor for a mains plug is also included. The good news is that when fully charged, the pack can be carried with a short connection lead for when needed. It's not much bigger than the N95 itself, and can charge the phone from flat up to a maximum of three times from a single charge! More than enough to get me off the moor...

The nice thing is that with the variety of connectors provided lots of different devices can be charged.

Have I used it in anger yet? Well no, to be honest. It's always kept fully charged and ready for action, but I've been lucky enough to not be away from power points long enough to have needed it yet. I look upon it as a form of insurance for now...

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I ordered mine last week, I still await delivery. When I made my trip to Ireland, I forgot to pack the car-charger for the rental wheeled can (The roadster did not fit in the airplane). So I had to rely on my b-powered stick. All the time. Which proved it was a great little stick and a terrific buy. It also needed to constantly recharge the N95 while being fed AA batteries constantly.

With a trip last week with no guarantee of a powerplug... A proporta seemed more economical or at least durable. If a proporta can do a triple charge of the N95 I could have 5 hours of videorecording or 10 hours of GPS navigation or millions of pictures... Sounds about right for a hefty daytrip with lots of GPS, video and snapshots ;-) One could actually go camping for a week without worrying to much for power. Or sunshine if you happend to go for a Solio and live in Europe...

I did consider the Solio, but there's just not enough light in the UK - and I'm indoors most of the time anyway!

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I did check into technical details of the power production of the Solio's solar cells. Simply said, there is about 6 times less light in Europe than near the equator. Take a higher cloud coverage most of the year for coast climates in account and be assured the solar cells are only of additional value for a traveling near the equator.

My b-powered and the proporta are battery-operated and thus for planned extra power for european lattitudes. As for real emergencies, I go for a mechanical winded flashlight and mobile charger gadget. I have one in my car for the ultra emergencies. My car battery and mobile phone might die simultaneous!

And yes I have one of those handpowered flashlights (spring with dynamo, no battery) near my fuse box... Ecofriendly, requires no batteries. Ever ready... etc... They should last me a life time... Preferable unused!

for some reason I have missed a whole hostage posts from my neighbours. I have checked in periodically and clicked on "Your Neighborhood", but it turns out that only gave a few of the recent postings.

I have been using the charger for the better part of a year, mainly when I forget to charge up the N95 and am on foot somewhere. I wouldn't be without it. It helps with battery power on my notebook when I am out and about, as I don't have to charge the phone from the notebook (tethering being a bit of a battery drain).

Last week I had the flue and had some time for posting and testing...

I have had good use from a solar charger when in Greece, the hardest thing then is to prevent the device baking in the sun.

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