Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=2725&t_mode=des' target='_blank'>http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=2725&t_mode=des</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger charges from any standard USB port (so it works with ALL Proporta power/charging products in your car, home, office) and stores an impressive 3400 mAH of power for when you need it. Plug any USB powered mobile device (phone, iPod, digital camera etc.) into the battery's standard USB port and recharge anywhere. Even power hungry devices like the iPod 5G will recharge and play for up to three times longer when connected to the Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger and you can recharge your mobile, Smartphone or PDA anywhere. Use as an emergency charger which can be recharged from any convenient USB port and never run out of power again."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/USB-Mobile-Device-Charger.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />Having just returned from a long trek, I ran into all sorts of issues related to powering my various mobile devices. Although nothing was catastrophic (I was fairly well prepared), this exact device is something I could have really used. Anyone own one, or something similar? How do you find using it?

[Kris Kumar]

Off-Topic: I am looking for something that has dual USB ports for charging.

It would be cool from a travel perspective, if Versa made the Boxwave with dual USB ports. I would like to charge my wife's and my Smartphones from one charger. ;-)

[Jason Dunn]

Cool request Kris, I agree that dual USB ports for charging would be really cool and useful...but I haven't seen anything like that before.

[ctmagnus]

I read somewhere of someone using a USB hub for that purpose.

[Kris Kumar]

Powered USB hub? Wow if the powered hub works, then that would be great. I will have to try it out.

Or are you talking about a regular hub connected to the USB charger port?

[ctmagnus]

I don't see why something like this (http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&amp;Item=GUH274&amp;name=MicroHub%E2%84%A2) connected to something like the Proporta device wouldn't charge two devices at a time. Three or four devices might be iffy. But in a pinch, you could always connect the hub to the AC adapter it ships with and charge that way. the adapter is a little on the small side compared to most AC adapters I own.