Product Description

The Solio Phone Charger offers a simple and effective way to charge your phone using only the sun's energy. Whether you want to save energy at home or travel regularly the solio phone charger lets you charge your phone anywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13682 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Better Energy Systems - Solio
• Model: S19-G38D
• Released on: 2006-09-07

Features

• Charge your phone anywhere and anytime.
• Stores energy for up to 1 year.
• Use it in your car or in your house.
• Supplied with fittings for most phones (including nokia, motorolla and blackberry)

Manufacturer's Description
The indispensable hybrid power source for portable electronics, Solio", a revolutionary new product from Better Energy Systems, gives you the freedom to move and stay charged.

Award-winning design and versatile, Solio stores energy from the sun or wall in its high capacity internal battery for up to one year. Intelligent internal circuitry means you can then charge your devices at the same rate as their dedicated wall chargers.

Solio's Interchangeable Tip System allows you to power your mobile phone, iPod/MP3, gameplayer, camera, GPS or other handheld device, anywhere&anytime& and&no messy cables!

Easy to use and small enough to fit in your pocket, Solio is the perfect portable charging solution.

Never run out of power again - Plug into the Sun".

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Customer Reviews

Universal Mains/Solar Charger
I bought my first Solio before they upgraded the retail pack to include all the extras. After receiving the new black pack after a quick and easy warranty replacement with Solio im very impressed.

This bit of kit will charge anything, as long as your device is smaller then a laptop your laughing. I do alot of travelling and have been able to charge:
Phones, GPS, Cameras, iPods, Nintendo DS, PDA, etc.

The included wall charger even comes with plug adapters for overseas fittings.
The only suggestion i can make is, when you do buy it and cant find a way to charge your device out of the box, go for the USB/12v car solution. Buying the extra proprietry tips are all well and good, but getting hold of usb/car cable is alot cheaper and quicker. Not to mention multi-pupose.

If your seriously interested in using this for a long term "survival" use i can recommend the following extras:

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Quality Product , Excellent Support
It's very annoying when your PDA or phone goes flat while waiting in the airport. This well-made device has been far more useful than I had hoped for. That the amount of charge is easily checked and seems to last for months is very reassuring. You can get cheaper alternative backup chargers, even solar ones, but nothing matches the simple beauty of this one. I'm off for a few days hill-walking soon and its good to know that I won't get caught out there either.
I had a problem with one mobile phone which wouldn't charge but Better Energy Systems sorted it out for me. I was amazed at the quality of support I received and they got the phone manufacturer to repair it under warranty.

Great little charger
I've Just bought this little charger, so I decided to see how long it would take to charge a nearly flat ipod battery. It completed the charge in just under an hour with enough to fully charge my phone too. By this time the Solio was only down to half charge on its internal battery, which means it had plenty left to charge my ipod again before needing to recharge the Solio. My one came with Wall charger with adaptors for most countrys, phone tips and a usb lead which can be used to charge you ipod or power anything which uses a usb to power it.