What is the likelihood of you carrying an AA battery when your phone dies in an emergency? If you do have one, won't it be more likely for you to be somewhere near human civilization than say out in the woods, and you can just borrow someone's phone?

If you were going out in the woods, you would want to take an AA battery with you in case your phone dies, since you won't be near human civilization and won't be able to barrow someone's phone.

Smoky has the battery waiting for you!! Then he will tell you: Your in a dead zone. lol

They may not use it here much, but in Japan these things are really popular. Not having to plug into a wall is very convenient.

Looks like lots of them on Ebay for less.

Only good for some Motorola phones. Unfortunately, mine is not one of them.

Great idea, but no luck for me. I thought these would be great, if your battery was low and you were running out the door, in a pinch.

I bought several of these to give as stocking stuffers, for Christmas 08. What a disappointment. They didn't seem to work for anyone I gave them to. They did run down the battery, though.

whats the likelihood of carrying one of these around as opposed to an extra cell phone battery?

I just carry a generator around, its actually more convenient then you would think.

Just a warning - while GG has a lot of cool stuff for cheap, they don't respond at ALL if you have a problem. I've bought a lot of stuff from them, most recently one of the 4GB spy pen cams. It arrived broken. 4 emails later, it's clear they have no interest in hearing about it.

Cheap swag gift given out at conferences as promotional gifts. Utter crap.

meritline did something similar with my purchase.