High Powered Solar Back-up Battery Charger For iPhone/iPod & Most Cameras, Camcorders , Smartphones $10 Shipped @ 1Sale

Not a deal if it doesn't work. Most of these solar chargers are not worth relying on.

Seems to be a great deal! repped!

BamAlmighty said: bobley is right... today's technology, solar panel efficiency still isn't good enough in this type of application. A panel of that size would take at least 2-3 perfect SUMMER sunny days to charge the battery. As power intensive as devices like iphones or modern smart phones are, you can't run them directly off of the solar panel and without knowing what the output is, even at 500 mA chances are you have to turn your device off to even charge it. These are still novelties at best.

Maybe you missed the third word of the OP, "1400mAh"

Reviews on Amazon are less than great. It appears that the unit has an internal battery, so you can use it for backup power when your phone is dead. You can charge the battery with AC or solar. The solar puts out .33 watts at 5.5V or 60ma The internal battery is 1400 mah so it would take this thing 23 hours of sunshine to charge it by the sun If your regular charger takes 4 hours to charge your phone and is 420 mh then this would take 28 hours of sunshine to charge your phone. It says that it takes 1+ days to charge a phone by solar. One reviewer liked it for camping. Another reviewer said not enough power to run phone. Has to be off to charge. My thought would be that it would make more sense to buy a spare battery and keep it charged for emergencies for the same price. .33 watts is hardly enough power to be considered a charger. Having this thing sitting around on your dashboard for a month, figuring 8 hours of useful sunshine every day, would save the enery to run a hair dryer once for 3 minutes. Not really saving the envrionment.

Wineaux said: For natural disasters, it's not a terrible idea. When you are going without power for 1-4 weeks because of hurricane damage, things like this can really be useful.
Just use smoke signals.

The only thing I'm not crazy about this deal is the shipping on more than one item. Adds an additional $5.00 per additional item.

For those having doubts on this product, try the Scosche SolBat II. Its $10 more and you'll need to find a $5 filler for FS but it has pretty good reviews and looks nice too.

Got it for $2.99 last time they had it. Haven't had to use it yet.

Mgamerz said: If you are going to be using this, obviously you won't be near an AC adapter, so your phone might not even be on anyways. Or camera. E.g. hiking would be my use for this.

For day hiking, just take a spare battery with you. If it only gives you 500mA in bright sunlight, then you will need several hours to charge up an iphone.

However, this thing may be useful if you're going to be off the grid for many days or months at a time (e.g., backpacking the Appalachian Trail or sailing around the world or if you live somewhere prone to natural disasters).

arct said: For those having doubts on this product, try the Scosche SolBat II. Its $10 more and you'll need to find a $5 filler for FS but it has pretty good reviews and looks nice too.

Pretty impressive reviews. This is the one I would buy.

I do have a question:
How do you attach your phone to this thing? I have a Sanyo phone with a proprietary charging plug.
Or for that matter, how do you attach any other devices?
Does it require a USB cable from the charger to the phone? I know I can buy a data cable that I might be able to make work?