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First Wind-up Phone Charger Review

Posted by Hemos on from the wind-me-up-baby dept.

Jonathan Bennett writes "Here's the first actual review (as opposed to speculation) of Motorola's FreeCharge hand-operated mobile phone charger. Only works with Motorola phones for now, but other devices on the way. "

2 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. too bad... by gyratedotorg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    too bad the wind-up phone charger isn't battery powered.

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  2. More-rewarding self-winding idea by guacamolefoo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not combine the crank with an attachment that would make the activity necessary to generate the power to transfer to the cell phone battery a little less annoying and perhaps a little, er, more rewarding? I mean, if you've got to sit there and turn your own crank anyway...

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