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

Sony Camcorder Battery

Advantages: It can hold a very good charge
Disadvantages: None

...In the past two years I have bought 4 of these batteries. I love these batteries because Sony have made most of their camcorders compatible with this battery. This meant that when I got my new camcorder for Christmas this year I was then able to transfer my old battery for a back-up. I have bought so many of these batteries because I do a lot of sightseeing. I have also choose this battery over any other because it holds an extremely good charge. I had came across times when I was standing in front of a beautiful landmark and I had no battery charge. After that experience any holidays, or events I got to I always bring at least one spare, charged battery as well as my own. I have never had any problems with these batteries and I only have good things to say about them. The battery can be purchased for around 15-20 pounds and this is...

g-sus 20.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony InfoLithium H Series NP-FH50 Lithium Ion

A normal battery

Advantages: long lasting
Disadvantages: might have problems when recharging it

...This lithium ion battery offers a long lasting video recording time for your cam recorder . It has the looks , the shape and the price as all other batteries and it is easy to use , just put it in the place for battery like the sketch shows on the camcorder . It is better and more of a high quality then the one that comes with the camera . Also by recycling it you can save the surronding enviroment . I reccomend also buying a new charger for the battery , because in my case the one that came with the cam recorder has let me down after two weeks from when i bought the camera. it just didn't want to charge the battery. what else should is say... it is just a normal battery...

TheGoldenOne 23.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic CGA DU07E/1B Lithium Ion

A Battery that Packs some

Advantages: support for when you are court short, long life, high price
Disadvantages: not widely available and do you need an additional one?

...Well what can I say about this battery really except that it is an extremely useful piece of kit for a camera; my old camera (a DSC 600) ran on the old style AA batteries and was continually running out after an afternoons not very intensive shooting, even when I bought AA rechargeables it did not improve much and cost me quiet a bit; my new camera however (that I was forced to buy after someone knocking into me sending my camera skimming across concrete on it's lens!) came with this battery which is a huge improvement; chances are if your buying this you're going to need a charger and these are really easy to use with a simple light that goes off when charging is complete; this battery is extremely long lasting with on average 380 shots for every charge which is outstanding! however of course with the advantages of a specialised pack...

bobthebuilderrocks 24.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sony NP BG1 Lithium Ion

Battery flattery

Advantages: reassurance of Nikon brand
Disadvantages: generic equivalents are cheaper

...This battery uses Li-ion technology which has been a great relief to me as I am the world's least disciplined battery charger, slapping batteries into chargers at any old state of charge. You can imagine that back in the days of NiCads and their dreaded memory effect, my batteries soon became useless. These are much more user-friendly. I would say that a spare battery like this is absolutely essential. On my Coolpix 4500 you get very little warning of imminent battery failure, it just tells you it's run out and shuts down. These only seem to take about 3-4 hours to charge and they're quite small. A nice feature of this battery is that Nikon provide a small snap-on plastic terminal cover so there's no risk of the spare shorting and discharging in your bag or pocket. It's best not to lose this cover because the terminals of this...

baublebag 08.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Nikon EN EL1 Lithium Ion

Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

...No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digital cameras. Kids love them. The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of VTech Kidizoom Camera Pink

For those with VERY deep pockets!

Advantages: Can't think of any - buy a third party battery at a tenth of the price!
Disadvantages: Disgustingly overpriced

...Original Equipment Manufacturer's (OEM) accessories are usually sold at a premium, but the price of this particular battery is verging on the excessive! Battery technology has improved almost beyond recognition, largely as a result of the mobile telephone industry demanding greater capacity cells in a smaller format - the knock on effect is that smaller volume products have been able to cash in on the research. Olympus have adopted the BLM-1 package as it's format of choice for it's latest range of mid to high priced cameras. With a nominal capacity of 1,500 mAh, using rechargeable lithium ion technology, this cell packs a considerable punch in a moderately small unit. Lithium Ion has distinct advantages over 'traditional' Nickel cadmium cells, being free of the dreaded 'memory effect' - where to maintain optimum capacity...

dobieg 10.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Olympus BLM-1 Lithium Ion

More brilliance from sony.

Advantages: Brilliant battery life, looksa and size
Disadvantages: Probarably don't need a spare

...Having previously owned a digital camera taking normal AA batteries a key priority in buying a new camera was to have a rechargable battery. This battery came with the Sony Cybershot DSC-W55 and i have been using it for about 2 months and have not found a fault with it. It came free with the Camera (Amazom £139) but it can be bought separately for around £20. The battery charges up through a charger which plugs to a normal plug socket and takes around 4hrs depending on how charged the battery is. I got this charger with the camera and you should get it with any sony camera you get. The only reason therefore to buy this battery is as a replacement but i have not found a need for one. I recently took just one battery on a 10 day holiday to Italy and found that the battery lasted all holiday, taking in excess of 200 pictures, and it...

MVP017 12.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sony NP BG1 Lithium Ion

Neither interesting, nor exciting

Advantages: Great battery life
Disadvantages: Bit pricey for the real thing

...How pleased I am to have finally found a digital camera which gives a more than decent battery life. My latest camera, the Canon 300D is a Digital SLR, and uses the Canon BP511 Battery, which is simply outstanding when it comes to juice usage! The battery is also suitable for other equipment, more on that later. It's all too easy for the manufacturers these days to quote this and that figure when it comes to battery life, when in reality you rarely get half that, tempting you to buy more batteries, and possibly more chargers too. Thankfully Canon's claims on the life of the BP511 are pretty darm spot on. The BP511 is a Li-ion battery pack. The good thing about Li-ion batteries is that they don't suffer from the "memory effect" that NiCad and NiMH tend to. This means you can charge them whenever you want regardless of whether they...

Kingseany 28.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Canon BP 511 Lithium Ion

Great Buy

Advantages: long lasting battery life and half the size of the NB-1LH
Disadvantages: none

...Description The battery is made by and for Canon cameras. The battery type is a rechargeable lithium ion and it runs for 150 minutes at full charge. It hols a capacity of 790mAH and the battery is both long lasting and reliable. The battery was produced originally to succeed the NB-1Lh in size so that they could create smaller digital cameras for them to be used with. With a fully charged NB-3L Battery you will never miss the important snap when you're just about to capture the perfect moment! When in packaging the product weighs 454 g and it has a size of 17.5 x 6.9 x 1.8 and it weighs 100g by itself. Compared to equilevent batteries like jessops NB-3L it has a much better battery life and is a much better value for money compared to it's competitors. I would advise with not using other forms of compatible batteries as these...

sadan01 11.07.2007 (25.07.2007) · Read review
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Review of Canon NB 3L Lithium Ion