So this 3000 mAh external battery charger for the iPhone has been making its way across site after site this morning and early afternoon. While the specs that it brings are worth mentioning: 500 hours standby, 8.5 hours talk/cellular based internet, 40 hours audio, 11 hours video, and 10 hours WiFI browsing, the real crowing jewel is in the press shot. See that in the lower right corner? It’s a Cydia icon.
So what’s the significance of this? Absolutely nothing. Just something I found a tad humorous. Though, when manufacturers of third party accessories who at times have to buddy buddy with the device manufacturer they’re creating accessories for don’t even care about revealing their jailbreaking tendencies means Apple needs to drop the whol anti-jailbreaking thing already. Agreed?
Geeky-Gadgets > Gizmodo > CrunchGear
Gadgets bring with them the initial wave of happiness and excitement that one normally gets when handling a new electronic for the first time. While the honeymoon can last several hours to several months, at some time it does come to an end. One way we try to maximize that honeymoon is buy purchasing accessories for our digital addictions in hopes that it will shed a new light and start a new chapter in our lives. 3rd party accessories make the world go ’round and often make up for faults or some sort of lacking on the manufacturers part. However, Panasonic apparently could care less about your happiness or consumer choice as they are locking out 3rd party batteries. Yup, you heard that right. Out of all the things to lock out, they choose batteries. *scratches head*. I can understand part of their logic — maybe for safety’s sake, to avoid a battery spewing itself everywhere in violent spouts of rage, taking your camera and possibly even you with it. Still, the real motive is money…plain and simple. They can’t hide behind the false claims of “safety” as we all know they could care less about your safety. Oh well, time to start finding away around this one folks. (Oh I know! Just buy a different camera)
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Source: Gizmodo, Slashdot, Image Source
