iPhone holster tops up your battery

In general, I am distrustful of the exposed coccyx and sulfurous crevices of those cell phone users who choose, instead of a pocket, to holster their phones on their belts. But this iPhone case seems less like some dweebie road warrior holster and more like a bonafide solution for the iPhone 3G's abysmal battery life: when you slot the iPhone into the holster, it tops up the battery juice.

For $25, that's actually not bad, though the usefulness doesn't totally expunge the fact that cell phone holsters are the pocket protectors of the gadget world.

iPhone battery case: portable, on-the-go recharging [Chinavision]

[#1 posted by nathanrudy , July 31, 2008 6:50 AM]

would be even cooler if it did it with the energy from swinging your hips as you walk.

[#2 posted by Chumpylumpkins , July 31, 2008 7:56 AM]

Do you ever see someone doing something horrible and wish someone could just tell them it looks stupid. You know, bald guys with comb-overs.

I'm now telling anyone with a phone holster that they are "that guy". You look retarded. Please, never use a phone holster. I would not say it to your face but when I meet someone, and they have a phone holster, I have no respect for them. Not in a mean way, just in a "isn't it sad this person has no self- awareness". It, to me, is like having a mullet. If you have a phone holster the people you work with secretly compare you to Dwight Schrute or Michael Scott. I am not trying to be mean, just offering constructive criticism. I hate when people post mean comments, I really mean this to be constructve.

[#3 posted by Freddie Freelance , July 31, 2008 8:02 AM]

I carry my iPhone in my pocket, but I carry my Blackberry in a belt holster. Thank the Old Ones I don't have to carry another phone for personal use.

[#4 posted by dculberson , July 31, 2008 11:12 AM]

I carried my phone in a holster in years past because they were enormous. My current phone is (barely) small enough to pocket, so in the pocket it goes. Sometimes you don't have a choice. (Where the heck else would you put a phone that's too big to pocket? In your murse? Fanny pack? Yeah, there's an improvement.)

[#5 posted by zuzu , July 31, 2008 11:16 AM]

ChumpyLumpkins is correct. Don't be that guy!

[#6 posted by Halloween Jack , July 31, 2008 11:27 AM]

Right. I'm supposed to let this superlative-yet-delicate wafer of electronics that pretty much organizes my entire life rattle around loose in a pocket, getting scratched up by loose change or my SwissCard or whatever, instead of being secured and protected by something superbly designed by the task, because, oh golly gosh, someone on the internet thinks it's not cool?

I try to imagine the person that holds such an opinion, and I picture someone wearing a fake vintage T-shirt not unlike the ones that I wore in junior high 30 years ago. Run along, little hipster, grown-ups are talking.

[#7 posted by Anonymous , July 31, 2008 7:56 PM]

Added benefit. It makes your iPhone look rather like a Newton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

[#8 posted by willibro , July 31, 2008 8:13 PM]

@ #2:

I am not trying to be mean, just offering constructive criticism. I hate when people post mean comments, I really mean this to be constructve.

Sorry, but I spent the last 25 years living in New York. In Manhattan. I can spot a fashion nazi at 200 yards. And you, sir/madame/thing3, are a fashion nazi.

Plus you can't spell. And judging by your handle, you're a lumpy chump to boot. You too, Brownlee.

Just trying to be constructive, y'unnastand.