New Trent PowerPak 10.0, NT100H: External Battery Charger/ Portable Back Up Power Bank

Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 2.34.07 PMNew Trent has been at the leading edge of innovation in the portable backup power solutions for the mobile devices. PowerPak 10.0 is their latest product aimed primarily at the mobile phone users, but it works equally well with tablets and other devices that need recharging on-the-go. It is a very compact and elegant product, which ought to find a place in a messenger bag or the suitcase of every commuter or road warrior.

The bottom line on this New Trent battery is this: it works. In the past I’ve tried several different reserve power supplies for my gadgets, and I have had mixed results. However, there is no ambiguity about this battery: it’s capacious, effective, versatile and well designed. It’s one of the largest external batteries that I’ve come across in terms of capacity (with impressive 10,000 mAh of charge), and yet it’s much smaller in size than all of its larger near-competitors.

In order to test this battery charger I decided to completely drain my small electronic devices so that I get as clean of an idea of this battery’s efficiency as I can. (As an aside, when you really want to discharge them, the consumer electronics has become really robust in recent year. It took me much longer than I thought it would. I had to blast music from my iPhone for hours and hours …) I discover that I was able to fully charge all of my small electronic devices with plenty of power to spare. Most of them I was able to charge several times, and thanks to dual USB ports, was able to charge up to two devices at once. Full charging usually takes between one to two hours. I’ve tested this battery with iPhone 4S, iPhone 3G, Kindle Paperwhite, Mobee Magic Bar, Jabra SPORT Bluetooth Stereo Headset, and the first generation iPad (32GB, Wifi + 3G). Oftentimes I was able to fully charge four or five devices with just one fully charged New Trent battery. I was also able to charge my iPad to completely, and even charge it to almost half its capacity the second time around. If there was an easy way of connecting this battery to an ultrabook I would not be surprised if it would be possible to charge it to a decent amount as well.

The battery comes with a micro USB cable that allows you to charge it by either connecting it to a computer or a stand-alone USB charger. The battery looks and to some extent feels like an oversized iPhone 5/5S. There is no doubt in my mind which device the New Trent designers had in mind when designing this battery.

There are a couple of design features that would make this battery pack even more appealing to me. I wish it had retractable prongs that would allow it to be directly charged from a wall socket. Even more so, I wish it had an attached micro USB cable, or even better a Lightning cable. Unfortunately, this would probably significantly increase the price of such a battery (especially when the Lightning cable is concerned), but such a battery/charger would indeed be a perfect on-the-go power supply.

 

Bojan Tunguz

Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts

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  1. Bruce tabachnick October 26, 2013 Reply

    How much for the power pak 10 and how do I order it

     

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