T-Mobile mytouch 4G Powerskin case
Anyone who has owned an Android smartphone or knows an Android smartphone user, knows that they are not the greatest when it comes to battery life and power usage. Android phones can use alot of data and power particularly if background sync is enabled. Alot of times, I tell people who have issues with battery life that they may consider disabling some of their sync functions until they actually open the app or set the phone to sync certain apps less regularly.
Well, what happens when you’ve done that and you still have battery issues? What if you use your phone alot because of work or you are simply an intense phone user? Carrying around a charger gets old and almost defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.
This is the issue that I wound up having with my HTC Mytouch 4G shortly after I got it. I use my phone alot for work especially when I am away from my computer. I’m also new to the Washington DC area so I haven’t quite found my way around yet and need a little assistance from my GPS in my phone. That’s pretty power intensive because it uses the GPS chip, the data network, the screen, the speaker also used for speaker phone as well as consistently using the CPU. And of course, my car has a broken lighter so a car charger is out of the question for the time being.
So, I purchased a Powerskin made by XPal. It is a rubber case with an extra battery built into the back of it.
Basically, you take the case and put your phone in it connecting the phone to it by a small USB cable inside of the case
. That USB cable feeds the phone power while it is connected which charges the phone until the battery in the case is exhausted.
On the back of the case, it also has lights that indicate how much battery life is left in the case itself. You can see the indicator by pressing the battery button on the back which activates the indicator. Below is a picture of the case fully charged with four blue lights illuminated.
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