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CommanderROR · 09-24-2007, 04:15 PM

Hi everybody,

I recently visited tribble's webshop (he is the new distributor for the Iliad in Germany) and found an interesting item.

http://www.justread.de/shop/product_...adegeraet.html

This is a solar charger that has it's own integrated Battery and apparently can dock with quite a few devices out of the box (including Mini-USB which makes it rather useful to me) and can be used to recharge the Iliad as well, even though it still takes quite some effort to get that done since you need the bulky car-charger to make that connection work.

I'm not really considering it for my Iliad just now, but I've got a power-hungry Smartphone (Fujitsu-Siemens T830), my STAReBOOK and am planning to buy an iPod Nano pretty soon. That makes three devices that I could recharge on-the-go with this little device, and perhaps someone will develop a more user-friendly way to connect this to the Iliad so that I can use it for that purpose as well.

Now, the trouble is that I've never used a Solar-Charger before, and although the device looks promising from all I've found so far, it's just a bit too expensive to just "buy-and-try", especially since I'm looking at roughly 200€ for the iPod Nano already + some protection for it and I've just spent a lot of money on furniture (and of course that nice new violin) and other stuff for my new flat.
Any info (especially first-hand) about this neat little device would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

09-24-2007, 04:15 PM	#1
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	Looking for info about the SOLIO Solar Charger Hi everybody, I recently visited tribble's webshop (he is the new distributor for the Iliad in Germany) and found an interesting item. http://www.justread.de/shop/product_...adegeraet.html This is a solar charger that has it's own integrated Battery and apparently can dock with quite a few devices out of the box (including Mini-USB which makes it rather useful to me) and can be used to recharge the Iliad as well, even though it still takes quite some effort to get that done since you need the bulky car-charger to make that connection work. I'm not really considering it for my Iliad just now, but I've got a power-hungry Smartphone (Fujitsu-Siemens T830), my STAReBOOK and am planning to buy an iPod Nano pretty soon. That makes three devices that I could recharge on-the-go with this little device, and perhaps someone will develop a more user-friendly way to connect this to the Iliad so that I can use it for that purpose as well. Now, the trouble is that I've never used a Solar-Charger before, and although the device looks promising from all I've found so far, it's just a bit too expensive to just "buy-and-try", especially since I'm looking at roughly 200€ for the iPod Nano already + some protection for it and I've just spent a lot of money on furniture (and of course that nice new violin) and other stuff for my new flat. Any info (especially first-hand) about this neat little device would be very much appreciated. Thanks.