Does your iPhone run
out of power at the worst times?
The iPhone was designed
to run out of power at the most inopportune times. When you are
using your iPhone to navigate to a location in a strange city—it
runs out of power. When you were just called by your frantic spouse
who is very upset with you and must talk or will be going to see a
professional without you—your iPhone not only drops the call and
goes dead.
If this sounds like
your situation, you probably should not read this blog and go talk to
your spouse in-person face-to-face (not face talk) and get on a plane
and get out of that strange city. Hopefully things are not that bad,
but iPhones have been failing at the most inopportune times.
How do we fix this?
There are actually two
ways: (1)expensive, cool and designer perfect apple batteries which
have yet to be introduced but soon will be putting all the
competition out of business, OR (2) inexpensive, uncool, and ugly as
sin non-apple batteries that will get you going again without any
fuss or muss. I vote for option two, because at the end of the day
the batteries will fail, will require you to replace them, and you
don't want the batteries to cost an arm and a leg.
For the foreseeable
future the iPhone 5 may or may not be introduced with or without a
really great battery that will last 24 hours (Ed. Personally I don't
know an expert that thinks the iPhone is getting much better
batteries any time soon. No matter how careful you are: you will
loose your batteries, your batteries will wear out, and you will want
a spare battery in every conceivable location that you might need
one: your handbag, your suitcase, your favorite coat pocket, your
briefcase—you get the idea.
Stichway has very
inexpensive batteries (Stitchway UltraPower 1900) that work with the
iPhone, iPod or iPad and they are very cheap at $6.50 each.
If you did not buy the
original Steve Jobs iPhone, but opted to the Android phones, I don't
feel sorry for you, but you are missing out on the real deal
experience. Monoprice Micro USB Battery Pack (monoprice.com) costs
$9 and will do the job.
Both of these devices
will double your battery life. Buy them by the dozen. They are
small, they recharge by plugging into the wall and you will need more
than one wherever you go.
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me for any reason. I am available to help you and your organization
in any way that I can. I am still here working for you. Contact
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