So here I am on vacation in Aruba. The sun is warm, the waves are a bit rough and the WiFi is horrid. Seriously, the WiFi here brings me back to the good old days of dial-up, and they weren’t such good old days.

As a result of the anemic WiFi I have found myself using my iPod touch far more than the HP MiniNote 1000 I picked up prior to my trip. (it is, by the way, an awesome netbook!)

The touch seems to work far better for me when checking email, keeping up with my RSS feeds, and even writing. It isn’t that the WiFi is better on it, but that the optimized interfaces on the Touch just feel faster and work much better for me.

Add to all this the fact that I am having a good time playing some games while away, and the result is a Touch whose battery runs down super fast.

Enter the Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 3G.

photos courtesy of the Mophie site

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Mophie’s web site is accepting pre-orders for an extended battery designed for the iPod Touch (shipping early August 2008) as well as announcing an expected September 2008 release of their Mophie battery pack designed for iPhone 3G (our review of the original here). The iPod Touch model boasts 24 additional hours of playback and 7 hours of video playback. Unlike their iPhone models, Mophie is using a USB connector for charging as opposed to the standard Apple connector. The pack is designed for 500 full charge cycles (partial topping off charges don’t count).

Mophie Touch extended battery
Mophie iPhone 3G extended battery