{"id":23620,"date":"2012-04-23T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23620"},"modified":"2012-04-23T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:05:59","slug":"the-perfect-lumia-800-battery-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/the-perfect-lumia-800-battery-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect Lumia 800 battery pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;\">The Lumia 800&#8217;s a brilliant phone that I&#8217;ve loved to own, but it does have one quirk that I discovered when I was looking for an external charger.\u00a0The USB socket is hidden behind a fold-out door, and sits a few millimetres back from the edge.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23633\" title=\"nokia-lumia-800-review-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nokia-lumia-800-review-10-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nokia-lumia-800-review-10-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nokia-lumia-800-review-10.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This is a non-issue if you&#8217;re using a cable to charge, but most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/nokia\/lumia-800\/batteries\">Lumia 800 batteries<\/a>\u00a0(and indeed, most external chargers in general) don&#8217;t have a cable, they&#8217;re just a box with a tip directly attached. You can see what I mean in the picture below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23645\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23645\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23645\" title=\"29837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/29837-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/29837-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/29837.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This fixed connector just won&#39;t plug into the Lumia 800.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These kinds of external batteries <strong>just won&#8217;t work<\/strong> with the Nokia Lumia 800. Instead, you&#8217;ll need something like this, which connects using a cable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/pama-plug-n-go-power-portable-charger-27146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23630\" title=\"27146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/27146-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/27146-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/27146-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/27146.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/pama-plug-n-go-power-portable-charger-27146\">Pama Plug N&#8217; Go<\/a>, and it seems to work quite well with the Lumia 800. The power pack provides 1000 mA of current to the 800, exactly what it needs, and can hold 4000 mAh (which, as you can expect, can charge the Lumia for four hours, which should be enough for several charging sessions).<\/p>\n<p>So remember: If you&#8217;re looking for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/nokia\/lumia-800\/batteries\">Lumia 800 battery<\/a>\u00a0or external charger, remember that you&#8217;ve got to get one that includes a cable connection, like the Pama linked above.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is helpful &#8211; thanks for reading, and farewell for now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lumia 800&#8217;s a brilliant phone that I&#8217;ve loved to own, but it does have one quirk that I discovered when I was looking for an external charger.\u00a0The USB socket is hidden behind a fold-out door, and sits a few millimetres back from the edge.This is a non-issue if you&#8217;re using a cable to charge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[6581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23648,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions\/23648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}