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Tech News : bKey is an ultra-portable battery charger for iPhone that fits on your keychain.

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Headline : bKey is an ultra-portable battery charger for iPhone that fits on your keychain.

"bKey is a compact, cable-free smartphone battery that fits on your keychain, ensuring that it will travel with you anywhere you go. The emergency battery has a built-in USB port for charging itself, alongside an 8-pin Lightning connector for the latest iPhone models, 30-pin connector for older iPhone models and Micro USB connector for Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Android smartphones that allows charging on the go."

"While the bKey is an ultra-portable, hassle-free charger, the one downside is that its battery capacity is only 230 mAh. If the Kickstarter project reaches $75,000 in funding, which it is well on its way to achieving, that capacity will be slightly bumped to 270 mAh. Either way, it’s only a fraction of the 1,500 to 2,500 mAh batteries found in the iPhone and most modern smartphones, providing only around 30 minutes of extra battery life."


My thoughts :

This looks to be on it's way to being available hopefully and has the potential to be very useful when a partial recharge is needed.

Source : iphonehacks.
Read more here : http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/09/bkey-wireless-battery-charger-iphone-keychain.html
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To be honest depending on price I can't see it taking off there are so many cheap portable chargers these days with a much higher mah
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I agree it does hinge on price and final spec.

However not that many are as ultra portable as this one.
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Capacity is way too small..... You can get the same from an AA battery in one of those emergency kits from Tesco for £5.......
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To be honest I can't really see the point of this one.It's far too limited in my opinion.

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I agree, it's way too low spec'ed to be worthwhile when you can get cheap ones that take alkaline batteries. just look in the pound shops.

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