A Battery Life Less Ordinary

Advantages: Great longevity
Disadvantages: Awkward and annoying

...The big problem with the battery of a PSP is that unlike the main competition (GBA, NDS) which have great battery life, the PSP does not; in fact you'll get barely more than 2 hours out of it. With this in mind I was quite intrigued by the powermaster battery that offers considerably more charge for your pound. Plus's often come with minus's and the first minus is the size of this battery; in short it's a damn size bigger than the one that comes as standard. So much bigger its sticks out considerably more too. This forms part of issue number two, it's now more awkward to hold. Once you got used to the size of the standard battery having this big monster sticking out the back comes as quite a shock. Shocks go hand in hand with annoyance, the battery pack now feels loose so loose that you often actually pull the battery off by accident...

sghawken 26.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of Trust PowerMaster PSP Battery Pack PW-2992p Lithium Ion

LG Viewty has some nice features but battery life is lacking.

Advantages: Easy to use, Great interface, Good camera
Disadvantages: Poor battery life, Touchscreen can be fiddely

...them, as I think that the battery on the phone is useless. I'm lucky if I can last a whole day without the phone dying on me because the battery has gone flat. If it does last all day it is because I haven't used it at all during the day. There is a power save option on the phone but this doesn't seem to extend the battery life. I feel that the battery life lets this down so much because it stops me being able to use all of the phones features. If the battery lasted another day my opinion of this phone would be so much higher....

kiwigosling 15.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG Viewty KU990

Energizer AA 2500 mAh Rechargeable Batteries

Advantages: Long Life
Disadvantages: Exspensive

...Hi today I will be reviewing Energizer AA 2500 mAh Rechargeable Batteries. Price You can buy these from Amazon for cheapest £7.05 I got them for £10 from B&Q and I got a charger as well. Life I recommend fully charging these for first time use. I put them on for a day. From the full charge I managed to get a week use out of them. I use them in my Xbox 360 Controllers which are used by me and my brothers so they were on for most of the week. Charge While using the official charger for this product it takes around 6 hours to charge fully (Overnight). Size I find that these batteries are a little larger than the usual AA batteries because in my Xbox controller when I first got them in they took quite a lot of force to get them out again. After using them for quite a lot it seems to have stretched the battery pack so it...

coolguymcd 23.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Energizer Batteries

The Energizer Battery Charger

Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: Takes a long time to charge batteries

...I had been intending to purchase a battery charger for quite a while. In fact I had even dropped hints to certain family members around Christmas time, but to no avail. I was recently reminded of this missing piece of equipment in my life when I rediscovered the PC lead to my digital camera. Remembering that a pair of standard batteries lasted for only about 30 photos in this camera I decided that it was certainly time to invest in a battery charger and some rechargeable batteries. I purchased an Energizer CHDCW8 ? 4 battery charger from Argos for just £9.99. This decision was based on several factors, the most important of which was the price and what I considered to be the best value for money. The design also played a part in my decision process, but in the end it was the price/value that were the strongest influencing factors...

micksheff 31.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Energizer CHDCWB-4 Battery Charger

Samsung U600 - poor battery life

Advantages: Very stylish and easy to use
Disadvantages: poor battery life!

...I have mixed thoughts over this phone, I have had mine for nearly 18 months now and won't be having another one. It has a lot of excellent features on the phone but has some glitches. The first thing I noticed is that the battery life was really poor, I had to charge mine up every day and half to two days, which would be fine if I had been using it a bit, but I hadn't. With other phones I have had I used to be able to get three days of life out of it. I have found myself going away for a weekend and having my phone die on me at some point. The camera is also one of the difficulties with the phone, it does produce great pictures but it takes three to four seconds to actually take the photo, which means sometimes missing the moment you are trying to catch. I have also had issues with the touch sensitive buttons on the screen...

andybassett01 25.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Samsung SGH U600 Ultra Edition 10.9

Mouse with long battery life.

Advantages: Comfortable and good looking
Disadvantages: None

...I have owned this mouse for about 3 years now. I bought it as i was getting fed up with the wired mouse lead getting in the way or not being long enough. It comes with software to install allowing you to make full use of the intellipoint. This is a system which allows you to use the scroll wheel both up and down but also side to side by clicking on it. The scroll wheel is most useful especially for scrolling through documents or web pages. It is easy to set up by plugging in the receiver into a USB socket on your PC but believe it may also work with MAC computers too. The mouse itself takes 2 AA batteries. The batteries last several months with daily useage as when the mouse isnt in use it goes into a hibernation mode reducing the battery useage. I would say that on average i am getting over 6 months use per set...

wildtinsey 11.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0 - mouse

Let the Sun save your battery

Advantages: Helps prevent flat batteries; achieves longer battery life
Disadvantages: None

...want one just like mine, there is a special promotion from Maplin offering it at £14.99 (actually I?m quite tempted to buy another at that price as a present for someone); Northern Tool UK.com would appear to have cut the price of the newer 1.8W version to £23.49 inc. VAT. As a student I would probably still have had to ask Santa Claus, but it would have been of extra added interest to know that by keeping the battery maintained in a high charged state, I would have been extending its life too. And just in case you worry about the weather, there?s a little light that glows to reassure you that it?s receiving power, and even on a wet, miserable afternoon like today, when the sun is nowhere to be seen, it seems to be light enough to power the device. Flat batteries should soon become a thing of the past....

Discerna 23.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of ICP Solar Battery Saver

360 Rechargeable Battery

Advantages: battery life
Disadvantages: cost

...Here it is, the solution to the hassle of constantly swapping out batteries from the xbox 360 controller's battery pack. This product will definitely save you money as you'll be spending much less on AA batteries especially if you play your 360 a lot. This battery pack however is absolutely useless without the recharging chord or recharging dock. The rechargeable battery pack is very convenient but if you're playing with the controller while it's recharging the controller becomes a wired controller for a couple hours which is not necessarily a bad thing. Also I feel the price for this product is a little steep but I guess it does save you money in the long run. The batteries do last for a long time and I rarely recharge my batteries. This product is a must buy for hardcore 360 owners but for the casual gamer who only plays every...

clra2 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Rechargeable Battery Pack

WIRELESS BATTERY PACKS!!!

Advantages: WILL SAVE YOU MONEY!!!
Disadvantages: COST!!!

...built into the controller. So microsoft came up with the idea of... NUCLEAR POWER CONTROLLERS. But then they probably realised this would be to dangerous and powerful so they just settled for double "A" batterys. : ) The batterys will last for around 12 - 20 continuous hours depending on the type you use, but changing batterys almost every day gets very annoying, and expensive. If you have rechargable batterys you will save money instead of always throwing batterys way but why wait for batterys to recharge? Microsoft then came up with the idea of the battery pack. On a full charge it will last around 24 hours of gaming and can be on charge while in use! It will add a small amound of extra weight to the controller but not so that you would notice. This is all good! you can now have a charging pack so you no longer need to buy batterys...

Roguey-117 04.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Rechargeable Battery Pack

Recharge your batteries the compact way.

Advantages: Compact, charges AA and AAA
Disadvantages: No European plug adapter

...~<*>~ Energizer ~<*>~ Engerizer have been around over a hundred years and made the first consumer batteries so should know a thing or two about batteries and chargers. ~<*>~ Price ~<*>~ Bought mine from Maplin at a reduced price, £12.95 Jessops online £10.99 + £3.99 p&p Tesco online £29.99 As you can see there is a huge variation in prices so check them out before you do. ~<*>~ What you get ~<*>~ Ultra Compact Charger. 4 X AA 2500mAH batteries. Instructions. The packaging is that tough moulded plastic that is impossible to open without scissors. Tried to open with my bare hands with no success, i am very stubborn. ~<*>~Instructions~<*>~ Are very basic and come on an A4 size piece of paper in 16 languages. The GB instructions would fit on one side of a credit card and the text is very small and people with poor...

oldwasp 22.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Energizer CHDCWB-4 Battery Charger