Posted on 29 June 2008, at 10:53 pm, by Christopher Gavula
The folks over at USB Fever are now offering a 2-in-one car/home charger for USB devices. The nice thing about this one is that it offers swappable adapters for the U.S./Japan, U.K., Australia/China, and Europe, as well as a standard 12v/24v car lighter connection able to charge 2 USB devices at once.
This adapter works well both at home and in the car - the various plugs are supported by swapping the connector you need in/out of the base adapter. Â They’re vary easy to change out. There’s also an LED that lights up when there’s power so you can see it’s active.
As mentioned earlier, there are 2 USB ports. There is one small catch, though - one is powered at 5 volts/500mAh, and one at 5 volts/1000mAh. The more powerful outlet is for the iPhone/iPod/PDAs and the other for smaller MP3 players. This is kind of neat since a number of adapters out there only provide power at 500mAh (or sometimes 850mAh) which won’t properly work with the iPhone. Â I can confirm, however, that this one does.
One word of warning though - the ports appear to be labelled incorrectly - backward, actually. The port marked MP3 is really the more powerful iPod/iPhone port. The other port is the lower amperage MP3 port, despite being labelled Phone. Â The ports seem to work well, they’re just labelled backward.
I’ve been using this charger for about a week now and I really like it. I like the extra USB port and I like that it can be used all over the world. I do wish, however, they had included a little bag to hold the adapters / cover when you aren’t using them. As it is I have no good way to store them since thy came in a blister pack rather than a box. Otherwise, this is a nice little set at a budget price. Â Definitely worth a look!
You can find the 2-1 Charger at USBFever for $19.99.