One of the complaints I hear frequently about the iPhone is its lousy battery life. To be honest, the battery hasn’t seemed that bad coming from a Treo 800w and its miniscule battery. However, there are circumstances that will test the strongest battery, and I recently met with just such an event! Every year when school lets out, I go off with the AJROTC to north Alabama for a week or two. Cell coverage is lousy where we go, and Verizon is the only carrier that has any 3G coverage at all. To compound an already bad situation, the National Guard recently renovated the buildings we use,...


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Proporta has long been one of my favorite gadget and accessory providers. They have great stuff, no matter what your personal preference in mobile tech. They have cases for everything from iPhones to Blackberries, Palms to Nokias. They have laptop bags, gadget bags, and every other conceivable accessory. And being a terribly British company, you get a cup of tea with every order.     Proporta advertises its Universal Emergency Charger as having “an impressive 2500 mAh” of power. I’m not convinced that 2500 mAh is really all that impressive, but it is more power than you get to start...


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