Review Details

Portable Hybrid Solar Charger for Android, HTC, Samsung, LG, Blackberry, Nokia

Product Review (submitted on December 11, 2009):

I performed the initial charge of the internal battery by cabling the charger to my laptops USB port. As it was an initial charge I left it plugged in overnight, to properly break in the battery.

The next day I was dissapointed to find that it's very cheap materials used for the construction of the USB tip adapters. It's also very difficult to find a replacement USB micro tip adapter. It took me a few days to find the right questions to ask Google. For others who are searching this seems to be specialized to solar chargers. I broke my USB micro adapter tip after accidentally dropping it while it was connected to a Motorola droid, and that was it. The droid was fine, but the actual solder points inside of the adapter tip housing instantly broke off and It's too small to be able to re-connect with out special micro electronic soldering tools, so it's not fixable. The only option was to purchase a replacement tip. I paid $6.99 for the replacement from another company, hoping that it will be better quality. I suspect that it costs about 10 cents to actually make these tips. I'm not saying that the tips should be indestructible, but it would be nice if they were made of better materials, because accidents do happen.

The good news is that, it does appear to work as designed. It appeared to be charging the droid before I dropped it and broke the tip.