As a travel blogger, I always carry two cameras when I’m covering an event or reviewing a location such as a museum.
I have a Cybershot DSC-HX300, but the camera that I most often use is in my smart phone (a Samsung Galaxy SIII), because when I’m covering an event I need to be able to upload photos and videos in real time to my Facebook account.
And accessing mobile internet and uploading photos and videos can drain a battery quickly.
Since I’m scheduled to cover the StarFest Denver science fiction convention that begins Friday, April 21, 2017, I decided I’d better get a portable smart phone charger to make sure there would be no catastrophes.
I have a cell phone charger in my car, of course, but that won’t do me any good if I’m in the middle of a hotel ballroom, 20 minutes away from my car in one direction! Plus it would tie me to the car for half an hour or so while the phone battery recharged.
So I went to my local Walmart today and bought a Pocket Juice – endurance AC portable charger from Tzumi, for $15. I didn’t have to make a decision between brands – the Pocket Juice was the only charger that the store had.
According to the packaging it can charge iPads, tablets, iPhones, smartphones and more.
I don’t know how it can charge an iPad, unless iPads have different connectors now. My iPad has an Apple connector that a mini USB plug and a regular USB plug (which the Pocket Juice comes with – one on either end of a 2-inch long cord) won’t fit.
The black rubberized coating of the Pocket Juice (easy to get lost in the bottom of a purse or backpack) and the two inch cord that allows you to connect it to your device
Weight/Bulkiness – Welll….
When I picked it up I could feel how heavy it was – it’s just a little less than a pound.
It’s 5-and-a-half inches long and 2-and-a-half inches wide, and an inch thich- which means it’s three times as thick as my cellphone, and will be bulky in my pocket. (I don’t carry a purse when I cover an event – too much to handle with a camera on one shoulder already.) And guys don’t carry purses at all, so they’ll have to deal with this bulkiness and weight, too.
StarFest Denver doesn’t seem to have a policy against backpacks, so I’ll bring my mini-backpack with me (just right for putting swag in, too).
No place for cord – Bad
People can charge their cell phone batteries in their cars…so why do they need a portable charger that is a battery all in itself? They’ll need it for when they’re indoors! And yet the connecting cord that comes with this device is not connected to it, but separate and therefore easy to get lost. I’ve decided to use scotch tape to tape it to the case – we’ll see how that works after it’s been in my pocket for several hours.
Battery life status – Good
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So how do I know when the Pocket Juice itself needs to be recharged? There’s a button you can press and one through four LED lights will light up to tell you. If only one light lights up, time to flip up the plug and plug it into a wall.
These LED lights also cycle when you’ve got the charger plugged into your phone.
User’s Guide – Awful
The user’s guide is a single sheet of paper folded in half – and it’s white print on black paper. Very difficult for 50+ year old eyes to read! And I don’t think younger people will appreciate the difficult contrast either!
Charging Ability – we’ll see
My phone was at 75% when I plugged it into the Pocket Juice, and an hour later was at 100%. But I was talking on the phone, with the speaker on, through the entire time, and this may have delayed the efficiency of the charge.
Summary
I hope I won’t have to use the Pocket Juice, ever, but I’ll be a bit more confident this Friday, at StarFest Denver 2017, knowing that I have it if I need it.
The Pocket Juice, the cord scotch taped to it, a pen to show scale, and the white print on black paper user’s guide
