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(More customer reviews)The Evo is a juice hog and when I travel I like to watch videos and listen to music in the airport and on the plane. I had a much more expensive unit from a major company that I accidently left on a plane. Not wanting to pay out that kind of cash again I thought I would give this one a shot. I ran it through a couple of test and it works great. I have an extended 2600 mAh battery in my Evo, I drained it and this unit fully charged it in about four hours. This unit has five power bars to show the charge after the 2600 was charged it still had three lighted. A regular Evo bat is 1500 mAh so it won't take as much energy to charge it up. I played a couple of hours of AVI's, still had three bars on the unit and my phone was fully charged when I finished watching the videos. The only negative issues and why I gave it four stars is that it only charges via USB and it doesn't tell you when it is fully charged, just all five bars keep blinking over and over. Since it doesn't come with documentation I have know way to know if the five bars means it is fully charged or almost there. The only other thing to point out is that the unit I left on the plane and this unit both have buttons on the top that when pressed show how much juice is in the battery, and that is the only function for the one I left on the plane. On this unit it doubles as an on/off switch and you have to hold it down for a second or two to turn it on or off. I didn't get this at first and thought it was a bum unit, once again no documentation. I also choose to use my own chords I had laying around to charge this unit and connect it to my my phone I felt they were a little better quality. If you travel and use your phone for entertainment and need the phone battery for non entertainment or need an emergency battery backup I highly recommend this unit for the price point.
Update: (try at your own risk and I use my own cables) I have a wall charger that will charger a battery while charging my EVO via USB. It seems to charge this unit without issue allowing me to use a wall USB charger rather than the laptop to recharge this anywhere. It works great for me, In the hotel I can charge the phone the old fashion way while charging this unit and a internal back up battery all at the same time.
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