Apc Universal Battery, 10WH by APC
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Digital camera reviews of Apc Universal Battery, 10WH
Digital camera Review: Road Warrior
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this battery so long ago; I can't even begin to remember how old this thing is. It just keeps on working and working.
On a recent trip to Europe I forgot my iPad charger, remember that device requires a 10W USB charger and nothing I had would charge the thing; except this battery. It was a struggle, but I managed to keep my iPad running for 10 days. I'm happy to report, this battery will charge an iPad. A 100% APC charge equates to about 20-25% of a charge on the iPad.
Simplicity, that's this battery. Plug the battery into a laptop, or USB adapter wall wart (like an iPhone adapter), with a mini USB cable (the ultra common cable for digital cameras) and wait about 4 hours for the battery to fully charge. How do you know it is fully charged? Press the silver button, the white light bar on the front lights up in 4 segments to show percent charge. When all four lights are lit (the bar is fully lit), the battery is 100%.
How to charge a device, plug the big USB rectangular side of your USB cable into the USB port, press the silver button and 20 minutes of charging happens. The white light on the front shows how much battery is left.
One press is about enough to fully charge a completely dead iPhone 3 or 3Gs. It takes two or three pushes to get 25% on an iPad. Any other USB device can be charged with this thing.
If I'm guessing, this battery is about 2 or 3 years old. It still works perfectly.
Digital camera Review: SUPERB, best battery pack available!
Summary: 5 Stars
Outstanding product!
I've purchased three of these over the past 2 years, still have two of them (stepped on and broke one)... Each battery gives me roughly two complete charges on my iPhone 3G (more than any of the competing brands I've tried), making my regular and terribly long international flights way more bearable.
Can't say enough good things about it, can't go wrong buying one. ;)
Digital camera Review: Simple with Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
These are not being made anymore, but the two I have had for 3 years, are still work great today. I travel a lot and they have probably been on 100 business trips with me, being tossed around and stuck in my pocket with my iPhone. APC did a great job when they engineered these, to bad they moved away from portable power.Digital camera Review: Simple. Works.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had the APC Universal Battery for three years. I've used it with iPods, iPhone, iPads, GPS devices (TomTom and Garmin) and Blackberry phones. It is simple and adds hours to the battery time of a device.
I love how it just provides a standard USB port that you can plug anything into it. It can also charge itself at the same time as powering an attached device. I will use this in my car to power an iPod and recharge the device (with a car adapter) at the same time.
The other primary use cases are plane travel (makes my iPhone last an entire day while watching videos) and on my bicycle, running a GPS app on my iPhone. After 100 miles the battery in the iPhone is still full and the APC device still has half a charge.
Overall I'm very pleased with this device.
Digital camera Review: The battery stopped working after two recharges. Hence, two stars.
Summary: 2 Stars
This battery worked well until the third time it was recharged. After that, dead as a post.