{"id":948,"date":"2007-05-21T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/32141d49c01aef2c1578ea334328b750"},"modified":"2007-05-21T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T17:48:53","slug":"mobile-phones-and-usb-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones and USB chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I moaned about the quality of those cheap mobile phone batteries you can get from eBay (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/5533\">Mobile batteries, cheap and nasty, or expensive; what a choice<\/a><\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>Part of my reason for wanting a spare battery is that my existing phone doesn't seem to charge properly. I use a USB charger attached to one of my machines. I use USB chargers because they don't sap so much power when the phone isn't plugged into it - compared to a wall wart that is - and they are a practical solution when I travel, because I only have to carry a load of cables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=4iPUxQ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=4iPUxQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/118480396\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I moaned about the quality of those cheap mobile phone batteries you can get from eBay (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/5533\">Mobile batteries, cheap and nasty, or expensive; what a choice<\/a><\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>Part of my reason for wanting a spare battery is that my existing phone doesn&#8217;t seem to charge properly. I use a USB charger attached to one of my machines. I use USB chargers because they don&#8217;t sap so much power when the phone isn&#8217;t plugged into it &#8211; compared to a wall wart that is &#8211; and they are a practical solution when I travel, because I only have to carry a load of cables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=4iPUxQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=4iPUxQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/118480396\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}