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By Clayton Collins, Christian Science Monitor
Cellphone-toters dread the sound: a hand-held device chirping its
> complaint, often far from home base, about needing to be recharged.
> Now on the market: a lipstick-size brass canister that holds one AA
> battery and offers reserve power. Run a short adaptor from the tip of
> a Turbo Charge to your phone, and a blue light indicates that a charge
> is flowing. You're back in business long enough to get to a plug -- the
> device's maker, Voxred International, claims "up to 40 hours" of
> standby time or two hours of talk, and touts patent-pending technology
> that protects devices' batteries from damage. It is designed to work
> with PDAs as well.
> We tested Turbo Charge -- about $20 at stores including Best Buy,
OK, but devices like this (using 2 AA or AAA batteries) have been on the market for a while. My wife bought me one as a bit of a joke at the local $1 store. I doubt it had any special circuitry but I expect my phone to handle the charging details, not the power-source.
- David