The Power monkey power traveller, classic and explorer are serious and solid solar chargers. A solar charger is formed by 2 parts (to use separately or together). The PowerMonkey is has a tubular unit that holds a rechargeable battery and a ‘solar slave’ (a fold-up solar unit).
Uses: The charger is compatible with majority of mobile phones (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, & Sony Ericsson), iPods & accessories, MP3 players, PDAs, smart mobile phones, digital cameras, games consoles, BlackBerrys, Blue tooth headsets, Laptops & many more digital devices like Iphone (iphone 3gs and iphone 4G) and Ipad. It includes mains travel charger for use in 150 countries (UK, Europe, US & Australia)
What I Liked: It has a big battery and is very resistant. The battery pack is portable and easy to use.
What Needs Improvement: Having a twice time period (Or charge a device or charge with solar).
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Ratings in Details
Package & Design: It look an old fashion cell phone. Having different colors could be a great choice.
Installation: You can use the Power Monkey to charge multiple devices a time: Using the battery and directly from the solar panel and use a USB port.
Price: Nearly 100 Dollars is a good price considering it has an internal battery included.
Performances: The is low powered staying all day on sun (walking in May) it only charged the battery to charge a cell phone for 15 minutes. In full sunlight it only provides 200 milliamps at best. Other people have found it takes 18 hours to charge the internal battery via solar panel. The powermonkey cannot power a laptop.
Usability: The Powermonkey won’t charge a device while the powermonkey itself is being charged.
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Comparison:
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