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Philips Demo AAA Battery Boost for Handsets

Published by Ewan Spence at 11:22 GMT, February 22nd 2008

Over on Guy Goma Kewney site, James Sherwood has pictures of a lovely mobile phone battery solution from MWC - the Philips 9@9j mobile phone takes not only a custom Lithium Ion battery, but also has a slot to take a regular AAA battery to top up the main battery for another three hours of talk time. If I was travelling, and I had the option to strap in a standard cell to my Symbian phone, I would be right there.

Dubbed with the curious name of 9@9j, the candybar handset has a standard lithium-ion battery inside and, should it run out of life, then the AAA battery, which slides into a slot at the bottom of the phone, kicks in to give the handset’s lithium-ion battery a little more juice.

Guy's full article with pictures is here.

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timsalmon
Not sure if anyone's picked this one up yet on AAS Ewan - http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4806282 - looks very useful - and not requiring a Philips phone! £18 here - http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...r/Product.html.

Tim
Orophin Anwarunya
Very good find Tim. I wonder why Nokia don't advertise cool accessories like this.
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Usefully comment Tim. Thx.
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even motorola has a "external" battery like nokia's.
http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/i...tName=Chargers

it store 1.5 charges of my Z8

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