- Includes base, battery charging plate, and device charging cable
- Charge an extra battery and your device at the same time
- Prongs fold away for easy travel
Product Description
With Seidio’s Multi-Function Battery Charger, you will never be forced to wait around for one of your batteries to charge. Because this versatile accessory charges both your spare battery and your device at the same time, you will always be powered and ready to go. By plugging the charger into an AC outlet, and the device cable into the charger, you can charge both your battery and your device at the same time. The Multi-Function Battery Charger can also be used as … More >>
I love my Sprint HTC Evo 4G. It is, in my opinion, the best smartphone made to date. However, even with all kinds of tweaking, you’re going to need a second (or even third or fourth) battery because this phone begs to be used heavily.
This Seidio charger allows you to charge one battery in the phone and another in the detachable tray. You can power it with 110 VAC or from a USB port. I can’t see doing the latter because it would take forever.
The unit is simplity itself a relatively small box with folding prongs. The removable battery tray I mentioned earlier. And a switch on the side for choosing between 110 VAC and USB. My unit came with a USB to microUSB cable.
Pop a battery in the tray, another in the phone and in a couple of hours or so, youhave two fully charged batteries.
The unit weighs only a few ounces and packs very nicely.
If you have an Evo 4G, you want an extra battery (or two or three) and this charger,
Jerry
Rating: 5 / 5
The multi-function battery charger is a pretty slick design. The battery “cartridge” tray allows (in theory) different size batteries to be charged using the base (I say in theory because I haven’t looked to see if you can buy the cartridge trays separately.) The back of the charger states it outputs at 500mA and it took about 2.5 hours to fully charge a depleted 1750mAh extended battery.
The charger has a USB port and a switch that lets you either charge your phone (or any other USB device) from the base while on AC power (even while you’re charging a battery), or you can charge a battery from a USB power source such as your laptop, a handy feature on a plane. Instead of a standard cable, Seidio includes a retractable USB/MicroUSB cable, a nice touch!
One nitpick: the back of the charger says “Carefully read instruction manual before use” however no instruction manual was included. It’s pretty easy to figure out though
Overall this is a very nice charger kit and the price on Amazon makes it that much more attractive. Recommended if you carry a spare battery for your EVO (or anything else this charges).
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased the item to charge and extra battery I purchased for my Spring HTC EVO 4G. Unfortunately the item never functioned right out of the box. I tried to charge the phone using the USB cord with no luck. I also tried charging the batter directly on the charging dock, and this did not work either. Shipping an item which does not work right out of the packaging is unacceptable quality. I tried to return the item for an exchange, and was told there were none in stock, even though Amazon listed 3 in stock. At least Amazon has an easy return policy.
Rating: 1 / 5
Just received this item and so far it looks like a great buy just like other Seidio products. Feels very solid. The plug is retractable to allow it to fit into tigher spaces. The ability to hold and charge a separate battery will be very handy for travel. As someone as said, there are no instructions, which was a little odd. But then again, it’s a very simple device so that really isn’t a problem. The only negative I have with it is the cable included cannot be used to connect the phone to a device for storage handling, it can only be used for charging. That’s a shame, I would have spent a couple more bucks for a proper usb cable.
UPDATE: I’m changing to 3 stars. The cable this shipped with stopped working after 1 week. Now I have to bend the cable a little near the mini-usb plug to make it work. The adaptor is still good, but they should have shipped this with a better cable.
Rating: 3 / 5
I use this product to charge my extended battery while using the oem battery and vise versa. Great for traveling! Definitely recommend if you have more than one battery.
Rating: 5 / 5