Powermonkey eXplorer – charge your phone while the sun shines
HOT CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA especially for the traveller.
If you want to use your gadgets while off the beaten track, it might pay to have a Powermonkey eXplorer on your back.
Powertraveller’s Powermonkey eXplorer is the Swiss army knife of phone chargers. It’s a small, pod-shaped 2200mAh battery that can be charged using AC power (with four plugs to cover 150 countries), using USB or using the supplied solar panel. It takes around three hours to charge via AC power or six hours from USB – after which it should recharge your phone at least twice. Solar charging is slower again, with six hours getting you around a third of a charge – perhaps enough to recharge your phone once.
So it doesn’t matter whether you’re in the jungles of Peru or Manhattan, you’ll always be able to charge your devices one way or another.
Got a mobile? Get a powermonkey-eXplorer…
From the heart of Africa to the Hardanger Glacier, the powermonkey-eXplorer has proved to be an invaluable piece of kit, providing essential power in the most remote locations. Incorporating the new solarmonkey, the powermonkey-eXplorer lets you charge wherever, whenever.
But powermonkey-eXplorer is not just for adventure travellers! Compatible with the majority of mobile phones, iPods (including 2nd Gen iPhone), MP3 / MP4, PDAs and portable games consoles including the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS & DS-Lite, powermonkey-eXplorer will recharge your devices – giving you 96 hours of standby on your mobile, 40 hours on your iPod, 5 hours on your games console, 48 hours on your PDA and 6 hours on MP3/MP4 players.
Make sure your powermonkey-eXplorer’s got full power at all times by charging one of three ways: via the solarmonkey, included universal mains charger or via USB. The solarmonkey draws power from the sun and coverts it into handy power! The kit now includes a useful Velcro strap, enabling the solarmonkey to be attached to a rucksack – perfect for charging your devices when you’re out and about in the sun. It can even be hung from a window, left in a car or taken anywhere the sun shines! Make sure the powermonkey-eXplorer unit is turned OFF when re-charging from the solar slave in order to reduce charging time! You can even use the solarmonkey to recharge your device directly – so you have back up power at all times. For example, plug the solarmonkey into the back of one of our Soundtraveller speakers and it will run your speakers from the power of the sun – no batteries needed!
Ultra compact, tough and powerful, the powermonkey-eXplorer is water resistant and made from rubberised casing so can take whatever life throws at it, yet it remains the lightest, most versatile charger available today.
Featuring an LCD screen that displays battery capacity and the level of charge, the powermonkey-eXplorer also has short-circuit protection, over-charging protection and over-discharging protection. The included mains charger has interchangeable heads for UK, Europe, US and Australia – so you can use it in over 150 countries around the world!
Available in 4 fantastic colours; Blue, Grey, Pink and Yellow – stylish and essential! Each powermonkey-eXplorer kit contains…
- 1 x powermonkey-eXplorer unit
- 1 x solarmonkey
- 1 x universal mains charger which will work in over 150 countries and has interchangeable heads for UK, Europe, US & Australia
- Tips for: Nokia and mini Nokia, Motorola V66, Samsung E900, LG Chocolate and Sony Ericsson wide connector
- 1 x mini USB for Motorola RazR V series, Blackberrys and Bluetooth headsets
- 1 x retractable USB cable
- 1 x Female USB
- 1 x iPod connector
- 1 x connector for Sony PSP and most digital cameras
- 1 x Black travel pouch
- 1 x Storage case
- 1 x User guide
power traveller Australia: Powertraveller’s Powermonkey eXplore cost $149.99 plus P & P
smh.com.au Digital Life: Gadgets on the Go: Powermonkey eXplorer – charge your phone while the sun shines by Adam Turner
