Comments on: $20 Duracell Charges Nearly Any USB Device, Including iPhone

By: fincan

fincan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:27:27 +0000

as Doug Mccauley pointed out, Duracell Instant is 1150 mAh, not 2000. Looks like they advertised it wrong on their page and Kevin probably got the specs from there(http://www.duracell.com/us/smartpower/products_PowerReserve.asp).

For anyone interested, it’s output power is 0.6A at 5V, so it might NOT chager some of the smartphones that needs 1A at 5V.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:10:38 +0000

I used to use a 4 AA battery pack/usb charger that I bought on Ebay.

But nowadays I use the Viliv S5 as a battery charger for my gear that can charge via USB (iPhone & Camera mostly) when I’m on the go. I love having to not take bulky chargers everywhere! Now, if the S5 could charge via USB that would be nice.

By: doug mccauley

doug mccauley — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:57:36 +0000

I bought one of these today (09/07/09) at Target. Target said that they were on a temporary price cut from $34.99 to 19.95. The SKU is 041333376356. When I scanned the barcode via google I received no hits, although I re-entered the information twice with the same result, no hit. The target receipt shows a number of 057060181 which I’m sure is some type of internal target #. This model look like the instant in your review. The reason that I point this out is that apparently there is a older instant rated at 1000MAH. The instant that I purchased is rated at 5volts/1150MAH. I am somewhat confuse because when I went to the Duracell site it states that the instant is rated at 2000MAH. I’m also confused on the price because your review make it sound like the regular price should be $20.00 which is different then targets regular price of $34.99. What Gives?

By: Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:40:29 +0000

There’s hundreds of similar items sold on eBay. I got one from Japan for a few dollars and wonder if the Duracell’s any better…

http://tinyurl.com/ml2uwg

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:53:11 +0000

Got one of these which will be nice with this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25809

By: david

david — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:10:24 +0000

Those of us that live by a “FRY’s” store have been able to get these for months now and the older (larger) ones for the past year 0r so……While I assume you could oreder them shipped, the cost might not be worth it…unless you wait for them on sale, which they were a while back about $15 so shipping would have made that about the $20 mark.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:57:34 +0000

$20 for a 2000mAh battery with iPhone support is awesome! definitely picking one up when it becomes available.