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The P790 is a portable charger for cellphones and other devices that draw their power through a USB port.
With the Eskom power crisis, Motorola’s P790, which people might have disregarded, could suddenly prove very popular indeed. The P790, you see, is a portable charger for cellphones and other devices that draw their power through a USB port. So if you forget to charge your phone and the lights go out, provided you’ve already charged the P790, you won’t be out of contact.
The device is available in six colours and at 79g is light enough to slip into a pocket, laptop bag or handbag. It works with USB-based phones and PDAs like those from Nokia, BlackBerry and Motorola, and also charges Bluetooth headsets.
I tested it on a BlackBerry Curve 8310 and it worked as advertised. Unfortunately, I couldn’t test it on my Nokia E61i, as it doesn’t use a USB port. Adaptors are available, apparently.
The P790 can be charged either by means of a USB cable from a PC or by using a phone’s wall charger. Recharging takes between two and three hours. One problem, though: within seconds of hooking it up to an Apple iMac’s USB port, Mac OS X informed me that it was drawing too much power and the port would be deactivated. I plugged it into my PC laptop instead.
With the Eskom power crisis, Motorola’s P790, which people might have disregarded, could suddenly prove very popular indeed. The P790, you see, is a portable charger for cellphones and other devices that draw their power through a USB port. So if you forget to charge your phone and the lights go out, provided you’ve already charged the P790, you won’t be out of contact.
The device is available in six colours and at 79g is light enough to slip into a pocket, laptop bag or handbag. It works with USB-based phones and PDAs like those from Nokia, BlackBerry and Motorola, and also charges Bluetooth headsets.
I tested it on a BlackBerry Curve 8310 and it worked as advertised. Unfortunately, I couldn’t test it on my Nokia E61i, as it doesn’t use a USB port. Adaptors are available, apparently.
The P790 can be charged either by means of a USB cable from a PC or by using a phone’s wall charger. Recharging takes between two and three hours. One problem, though: within seconds of hooking it up to an Apple iMac’s USB port, Mac OS X informed me that it was drawing too much power and the port would be deactivated. I plugged it into my PC laptop instead.