Portable USB Power Station Tested

Charging up batteries, like shaving or waxing your children, is one of those annoying things everyone spends far too much time either thinking about or doing.  How often have you delayed leaving for work, or even worse a trip somewhere, because you want to pour just a little more juice into the cellphone you forgot was almost dead and only plugged in twenty minutes ago?  How often has a creative splurge been interrupted by the anxious blinking of a laptop power gauge, or the head-banging fun bit in the middle of Bohemian Rhapsody cut out because your iPod has expired?  If you've agreed with me at any point, then Gear Diary might just have the hardware for you.

The Datexx ULTRABattery is basically a 2200mA rechargeable battery in a box that will spit out its charge to any number of 5v devices, hopefully returning them to some sort of usable state.  Coming complete with five different adaptor tips, hopefully running the gamut of things you'll want to use it with, unless of course you actually have an iPod (but nobody does, eh?) in which case Datexx will charge you $7.99 for the appropriate tip.  If you've a USB charger for any particular device then you can also plug it directly in.

Does it work?  Yeah, of course it does – it's a battery in a box, what could go wrong?  Although it didn't have enough grunt to power up an HTC Universal, meaning it's useless for anything larger – like, say, a laptop – everything else it handled with ease. 

Datexx ULTRABattery Rechargeable USB Power Bank Review [Gear Diary]