I'm going on a 10+ day bike ride and want to be able to use my fantastic Nokia 6110 (with built in GPS) and my ipod Nano as long as possible. I bought a cheap solar panel charger on ebay and have found that it's useless. What are the best solutions? So far under consideration are better solar, a spare battery for the phone and emergency chargers that can be recharged when I can get to mains power. The 'name brand' solar chargers around, the solio and the freeloader also have negative reviews. The Freeplay 12V looks cool, but has also got some pretty poor reviews (but at least it looks like it works). What would you recommend?
posted by sien on Nov 28, 2007 - 22 answers

Electronics question - can I recharge batteries while using them? [more inside]
posted by psychobum on Feb 21, 2006 - 7 answers

i am thinking of getting a battery recharger and am asking if this particular type/model http://www.battery-recharger.com/ works well thank you
posted by robbyrobs on Dec 22, 2005 - 2 answers