rtbiscuit Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Following on from Stanski's early crimbo pressie it reminded me that i need a car charger for my wonder phone. i've been browsing the old interweb for ideas, but they all seem to get mixed reviews; either they don't fit properly into cigerette sockets or the connection is dodgy, or they interfere with radio signals, or they give off less power than the phone draws. now the majoirtiy of these chargers aren't cheap and most seem to be around the £15 mark. i don't want to fork out for something that turns out to be an expensive piece of crap. so was wondering what other people are using. these are the 3 i've been looking at: XtremeMac Incharge Auto http://www.blueunplugged.com/p.aspx?p=120905 http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TN787 ... hop_iphone and Kensington USB Car Charger http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TX559 ... TU0MDQxMTE and Griffin PowerJolt SE Car Charger http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TQ398 ... TA4NDYyNzQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarmac@TarmacSportz Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I've bought the xtreme one from the O2 store for the Mrs for Xmas , it was £15 which I thought was pricey for a car charger, it's supposed to be good but I can't really comment yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yokomo Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 ebay for about a fiver ! dont ahve the seller name as it was a while ago but it was cheap as chips and works fine . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I bought this one for use in the truck, and it works perfectly. Any of the others are overkill IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Quads Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I've always used ebay for this. I got my cradle and charger for less than a 10er, not had any problems at all. Also picked up another couple chargers from ebay for a couple quid and they have also worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coup Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 The iPhone is fussy with chargers (somthing to do with needing some other pins of the USB cable to recieve a charge that older cheap chargers don't have and that were added with iPhone.) I've got this and works perfectly for a few quid. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Car-Cigarette-Lig ... 3ca9134e76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted January 10, 2010 Author Share Posted January 10, 2010 i went to O2 in the end and bought their iphone charger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanski Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 The iPhone is fussy with chargers (somthing to do with needing some other pins of the USB cable to recieve a charge that older cheap chargers don't have and that were added with iPhone.) I've got this and works perfectly for a few quid. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Car-Cigarette-Lig ... 3ca9134e76 Agree they changed the pin out basically to skim more money off us - I cant charge mine with my old Ipod charger ! They have something we want and thats called Business I suppose - their time will come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yokomo Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 thye dind indeed change somthing about the pin out but you can still get el chepo ones that work fine . really hate paying the money they charge for the apple stuff , im not mean just hate paying way over the odds for an apple logo ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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