I purchased a Soldius1 solar charge last year to charge my granddaughters iPod and cell phone while we where camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
It comes with seven plastic adapters for charging 250 different devices including power-hungry iPods, Zen Micro MP3 players, BlackBerrys, and mobile phones from Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Motorola.
The solar charger worked just like the manufacturer said it would, and charged my granddaughters iPod in less than 3 hours. Where we go camping there are more moose than cell phone towers, so keeping the phone charged wasnt a problem.
This is a fantastic charger, but with a 1.1 watt/6 volt rating youre limited to the
number of devices it can charge during the course of a day.
This fact was born out when my wife and I recently took my granddaughter and two of her friends camping. The camp site looked like a satellite store for Radio Shack.
Try as it might, the Soldius1 was no match for all the electronic gizmos these teens brought along. We definitely needed MORE POWER.
The Brunton Solaris 25 solar charger with 25 watts/15.4 volts worth of charging power, gave us...