The iCel battery pack runs your iPod for up to 200 hours
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 9th 2005 9:00PM
posted Nov 9th 2005 9:00PM
Sure, your piddling iPod battery might make it through a commute or two, but how about a cross country road trip?
And back? Well, Lithium House has just what the doctor ordered with their iCel external battery packs for the iPod,
coming in 50, 96, and 200 hour varieties. (Ok, so this road trip of yours probably won't involve a lot of
sleeping.) Sadly, you're not going to be charging up any
5G iPods with this thing, it's a Firewire
only affair, and those shiny newcomers only support USB — we guess you'll just have to console yourself by watching
Thriller for the 904th and 905th times, while softly petting the nearly scratch free black surface of your new
iPod. Forget all that.
[Via TUAW]
Actually the new 5th Gen iPods can still charge via FireWire. They just don't let you transfer information over it anymore.
The 5G iPod can charge over firewire, it just can't transfer data over it. So this should work. Or is there something I'm missing?
Actually, even though the 5G iPods will only sync with USB, they will still charge with FireWire. I found this out on accident when I only packed a FireWire cable with me on a business trip. I plugged it in and said I needed USB to sync. But it charged it up no problem.
I thought I read in a blog about the PSP version of this iCell that there was a firewire to USB adaptor. Couldn't that work here for 5G iPods?
But will it get scratched after being used?
Good Product, i hope can using this for the first time.
You know, actually, I think it can charge via firewire.
why not just get a cigarrette car charger... $15! :D
Dear Peteremcc,
Not all of us have/need/want cars.
YES!!!!!
NO!!!!!!
Yeah, it would be the perfect thing for us hikers/hitchhikers out there...
It might not last 200 hours, but... http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000270029372/
Yeah, you get that amusing one time "You can only charge this ipod via firewire you can't sync it. Please click center to dismiss this message" after you've seen that message 50 times you realize Apple has sunk to nagging you to buy the new USB charger brick. >:-(
Did anyone else notice:
A) They're all back ordered, every single model.
B) The 200 hour model is $199 on the main page and $249 in the cart? Hmmmm!
Right, right. The example in the article must be referring to a trip on a bus, train, or even a plane. I don't know why anyone would even consider buying one of these when they could easily buy an FM transmitter or hook up their iPod directly to their car stereo while keeping it charged up with a cheap iPod car adapter.
Brian
It's so I can use it while I'm in my Stryker vehicle, cruising down the street, with my homies in Down Town Baghdad BLVD looking for some "insurgents", copy that? Stryker vehicles, as most other Military vehicles, don't have no stinkin' lighter adapter and I'm sure Mr. and Mrs. Husseini ain't gonna let me borrow their wall socket so I can recharge.
No, on a serious tip. This would be good for those long Military missions be they training or the real deal.
Isn't that just a UPS?, cool idea but I can't see any info on weight?, anyone know?
Come on! I live in a big city in Europe with a 'fairly good' public transport system, but when I visit the US, I have access to a car (and for now complete with cigarette lighter) as not every area has public transport. My family still live in the country or suburbs so they need a car. Peteremcc is right.
does this work with the nano? because with the flash memory... the battery life would be insane, it already gets 16 hours from the smallest lithium cell IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA lol
whatta ugly apple knock off website and apple knock off logo they have. Booooooooo
Seems like the model on their website is enjoying more than just 50 hours of music! LOL!
Does this sort of feel like a scam to anyone else? The price jumps to $250 when you add it to your cart, everything is on backorder, their actual shopping section lists different products, all the pictures are just renders and a lot of the site is just non functional or re-directs. Maybe I'm just a little paranoid this morning. :P
i kinda like the site and logo
hii i like it all i think its a great product!
Hmmm... 200 hours = 8.3 days of continuous listening. If you don't feel like charging your battery for a week, raise your hand (and your wallet)!
I LOVE IT!! ITS MADE IN MY COUNTRY!! azn pride 4 life homies...its made by our people me likies!! me wub it looong time
go to batterygeek.net - they already have an very nice iPod battery that lasts for a good 92 hours (they say 100, but tests show a little less). Still, it is sleek and elegant, about the size of a deck of cards. it will charge up the 5g iPod np. i would guess around 40 hours of video playback? anyways, the iCell will probably be over $100, and you can get the nice one at batterygeek.net for $75 shipped.
Actually the iPod battery at batterygeek.net isn't compatible with the 5G iPods yet. Their Website states: "Not yet compatible with the latest 30GB & 60GB iPod Video or 512MB & 1GB iPod Shuffle models," and "the latest and greatest news as of 11/09/05 is that in 2-4 weeks we will have a special connector cable available which will allow this same battery pack to operate with all the latest 30GB & 60GB iPod Video iPods."
Amazon is selling these for $114.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CBX2IE
Full details are in the review below (it’s long so I haven’t copied it here. but in a nutshell, the wrong battery sent (supposedly larger but I get less runtime than promised), no responses to emails and inconsistent behavior of the battery all make me concerned for my investment if I have any kind of true failure.
I definitely don’t recommend BatteryGeek the company.
http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/52-Update-on-BatteryGeek.htmlFull details are in the review below (it’s long so I haven’t copied it here. but in a nutshell, the wrong battery sent (supposedly larger but I get less runtime than promised), no responses to emails and inconsistent behavior of the battery all make me concerned for my investment if I have any kind of true failure.
I definitely don’t recommend BatteryGeek the company.
http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/52-Update-on-BatteryGeek.html