My most pressing concern when out and about is how long my devices will last. I have keyboards, phones (yes, I carry more than one), and a bluetooth headset that I carry for most trips. And if I am not in the car for most of the time, or have someplace where I need to talk on the phone or write notes for an extended period, I will usually not have enough power to last until the end of the day.

That’s why I’m happy I discovered the pocket-friendly JAVOEdge Extended Battery and Essentials Pack.

At the heart of this is a flask-sized 3400 mAh battery that can serve as a source of emergency power for your device when it gets low. And because I tend to carry devices that have multiple power charging ports, the essentials pack inclusion of a retractable cable with several charging ports comes right in handy.

I really like the small size of this setup. I usually keep the battery “flask” in my car’s glove compartment (bringing it out once a week to use and then recharge) when it is not in use.

About the only knock on the exended battery is that it needs to be charged itself. If there were a self-charging (solar perhaps) variant of it, I would pick it up in a heartbeat.

The Portable Battery Charger is $40, and can be found now on the JAVOedge web site.

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Samsung is certainly busy with new goods lately, but we’re particularly thrilled by this, the Samsung i550. Samsung has / had another i550 which was a Palm-based flip from a few years ago, thankfully this handset won’t be repeating that OS choice. Apparently packing GPS — the key for it sits to the right of the right softkey — runs S60, has a 3.2 megapixel cam, HSDPA — no flavor mentioned — 128MB RAM, and all packed in a 115 x 53 13.8 mm package. The pic does look a bit off to us, we’re wondering why the lower half — with the Sony Ericsson-styled keys — has what looks like a seam running across the handset, could this be a slider of some sort? The d-pad also seems like it is using a trackball, though unfortunately until we get some better shots — or a press release — we’ll have to leave it all up the air. No word on an arrival time, price of what carriers will pick this up, but we’ll be watching things as they unfold so you won’t need to.

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Finally the Treo 750 gets its moment in the unofficial spotlight, viva la Windows Mobile 6 updates! Though, AT&T hasn’t released it officially — like the 8525 and the BlackJack — if you like living life on the edge, all you need to do is head to xda-developers and scare up the ROM for a little do-it-yourself flashing action. As with other updates not yet officially sanctioned by AT&T, if something goes awry, you’ll be out of luck for support. By our reckoning, the “Treo” of AT&T devices that were set to get updates now have dodgy versions floating around. So come now AT&T, where’s the official love?

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