Those Aztecs knew their onions.

Posted by andypaddock in Cool Stuff

So do you buy an iPhone an Android device or a Blackberry? After much deliberation I think I have come up with the answer to that impossible question.

My answer is inspired by the ancient Aztec Empire and Gizoo.co.uk or rather a little gadget I bought from Gizoo.

All smart-phones are in my opinion created equal, they do similar things in similar ways with a few differences that only come to light when you are bashing a rival device or defending your choice of device.

The common issue with all smart-phones is all those inbuilt resources sap the battery, so if your phone is blue-toothed to your car cradle and your using the GPS to navigate home, unless your phone is drawing a charge from the car chances are your battery will be going south faster than your fuel gauge.

The Juicebar

As an experiment I bought a Juicebar Pocket Solar Charger and set about testing if I could break my dependence on mains power. It reports to give 480 minutes standby or one hour talk time from the in-built battery and can charge your phone and itself when in sunlight.

Early results are promising but I think I may have swapped my mains power dependence for a Sun dependence. I’ll post an update when I have had more time to assess the latest gadget.

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