Battery

Just Mobile Gum Plus: A MacBook Pro Inspired External Battery Solution for Your iDevice

What looks like a MacBook Pro, charges your iPhone to 90% in about an hour, and is super portable? That's right, it's Just Mobile's external iPhone battery, the Gum Plus.

Despite its somewhat bizarre name and small stature, this is a beautiful product that can charge your iPhone over three times on a single refuel. Check out our in-depth video walkthrough of this striking product inside...

Mophie Releases New External Batteries for iDevices

iDevice accessory maker Mophie has released a new line of external batteries for your favorite Apple gadgets. The second generation Juice Pack Universal line features three external batteries that charge the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

The Juice Pack Reserve, Juice Pack Boost and Juice Pack Powerstation all come in different sizes and offer different types of charges...

New Mobius Case Lets You Charge Your iPhone with Solar Energy

What's cooler than an iPhone case that recharges your battery? How about an iPhone case that recharges your iPhone's battery with the sun.

Etón has released the Mobius NSP300B Rechargeable Battery Case for the iPhone 4. Featuring a 1800 mAh rechargeable lithium ion battery, the NSP300B sports a solar pack that will charge your iPhone with the energy it draws from sunlight.

Kensington Releases iPhone Case and App for Secret Agents and Paranoid People

There's nothing worse than leaving your iPhone somewhere, other than perhaps having it stolen. Kensington agrees with that sentiment, and has launched two new accessories that aim to help us keep our beloved iPhones by our side.

The two releases, while sporting somewhat cumbersome names, act as cases crossed with proximity alarms, letting users know when their iPhone is too far away...

iPhone 5 Battery, Camera Lens, Audio Flex Cable Allegedly Leaked

As we get closer to the iPhone 5's release in September/October, expect part leaks to start flying off supply chains overseas. This report is no exception, with an overseas iPhone parts supplier called TVC Mall leaking several alleged components of the iPhone 5.

A total of 5 parts have been leaked, including the iPhone 5's battery, rear camera lens and headphone/earphone audio flex cable...

Apple Investigating Solar Cells For Future iDevices

Apple and one of its main smartphone competitors, Samsung, are looking into the idea of using solar power in future devices, according to the ever (un)reliable DigiTimes.

While it will probably be a long time before this becomes a reality, the technology would let solar cells become part of iPhones, iPads and other devices...

2 New Notification Center Widgets: BatteryCenter and MusicCenter

Jailbreak developers have been on a roll over the past two weeks, releasing several custom widgets for the new Notification Center in iOS 5. From the looks of things, it doesn't appear that the community plans on slowing down anytime soon.

Programmer Aaron Wright has recently released not one, but two jailbreak tweaks for Apple's iOS 5 beta software. Jailbroken folks on iOS 5 are more than welcome to try out the 2 new widgets, which are available for free from the developer's repo...

4 Ways to Improve Your iPhone’s Battery Life

Are you suffering from poor battery life on your iPhone? Will your trusty smartphone no longer get you through the day on a single charge? How about even half a day?

Your iPhone's battery could failing, but there are still ways to help maximize your battery life while you still can. We've collected four tips to help you squeeze the most juice out of your iPhone's battery...

Cydia Tweak Alerts You When Your iPhone is Fully Charged

Jailbreak tweaks are a dime a dozen these days. There seems to be one of these iOS extensions for nearly everything, from uploading photos to Facebook to sharing your music on Twitter.

And in case you needed an app to give you a heads up when your iPhone battery is completely charged, Cydia has you covered there too. Full Charge Alert is a tiny tweak in the jailbroken App Store and I'll give you 3 guesses what it does...

Has your Battery Life Improved in iOS 4.3.3?

Ever since Apple released iOS 4.3, many iPhone users have been reporting a noticeable decrease in battery life from iOS 4.2.1. While further releases tend to help battery life a little bit, users state that their iPhone battery life still doesn't last as long as it did on iOS 4.2.1 and earlier.

Apple released iOS 4.3.3 earlier this week, and in addition to rectifying the infamous location tracking bug, the update was also supposed to bring battery life improvements. We conducted a similar poll a few days after the release of iOS 4.3.1, and the poll results still showed that iOS 4.3.1 battery life had not improved.