Industry Reviews for Mophie’s Juice Pack Air for iPhone 3G S

New stocks of the Mophie Juice Pack Air are due in Australia shortly!

Points to note

- 1200mAh (smaller than some competitors, but battery size is outweighed by less bulk added to your iPhone)
- Smart Battery technology, meaning it drains the Juice Pack Air first before your iPhone
- The benefit of a hard case and battery, with on/off switch when your Juice Pack Air is not needed
- Full hard case, not a half case, so more of your precious iPhone is safely protected

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Read Reviews

CNET

The Mophie Juice Pack Air for the iPhone 3G makes a great protective case and helps to double the battery life of the phone.”

CNET – Editors Choice: 8.5 out of 10

There’s no doubt that the Mophie Juice Pack Air is our favourite iPhone battery design. The combination of battery and protective covering is great and the way it fits perfectly around the handset is exactly what we want.”  Read more

PCWorld

The main drawcard of the Mophie Juice Pack Air is the fact that it offers the convenience of extended battery life for your mobile phone and the protection of a hard case in one device.”  Read more

TestFreaks

If you are an iPhone junkie and constantly use your Apple phone, then the Mophie Juice Pack Air is a no brainer. It provides protection and additional power all in one well designed package.” Read more

Engadget

The case does add a wee bit of bulk around back, but to us, it’s hardly a deal killer. For giving users the ability to rely on heavy 3G web surfing without fear of running the battery dry within 24 hours, we feel the added bulge is a fair trade.” Read more

iLounge

It offers superior protection to the prior Juice Pack, sells for less, comes in more color options, and adds a power switch that can let you keep some battery power in reserve for emergencies.” … “One certainly positive element of Juice Pack Air’s performance was its impact on the iPhone 3G’s speakerphone: there’s virtually none.” … “In other words, the iPhone can still function well as a speakerphone while it’s inside this accessory.”

Where to Buy

Satisifed? Need the extra iPhone juice?

Then you just need to decide which colour – Black, Red, White or funky Purple?

News is that Apple has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (USA), alleging that HTC has infringed multiple iPhone related Apple patents.

To quote Steve Jobs in a statement released by Apple:

We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it.” … “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

What this case specifically relates to apparently is the HTC graphical user interface and underlying architecture and hardware design.  Perhaps HTC was seen as an easier target than Google, Microsoft and other smartphone manufacturers like Samsung? Or perhaps it’s the first case of many?

CNET reports that:

In its complaint to the International Trade Commission, Apple named 12 phones that it claims use technology that infringes its patents. Five of those phones–including the Nexus One, which is sold directly by Google–use Google’s Android operating system. And seven of the phones named in the complaint use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software.”

Maybe it’s not really ‘new’ news… Someone’s always suing someone in the big world of consumer electronics, especially with the high increase of smartphone technology in the industry.  Some skeptics say it’s just a different form of paid advertising, for both parties.

And Apple has been sued by Nokia more than once in the past for similar copyright infringements, and more recently by Kodak.

Whilst many of these types of cases result in cash settlements, it has been suggested that Apple is also going to try for a permanent injunction on HTC from selling infringing devices. Guess it’s a wait and see, as usual.

In the meantime, check out what SmartHouse has to say in relation to HTC and specificially the Telstra’s HTC HD2.

Originating source: TechCrunch