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Re: Mom Sells Brain Toniq

henk van ess — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:23:40 -0000

can she cook?

Re: Google Hates Us All

henk van ess — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:47:57 -0000

I posted a screenshot of Google kicking Google on my Dutch site, see http://www.voelspriet2.nl/forum/index.php/topic...

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:21:37 -0000

So sorry Jan, black only for now. But the manufacturer knows that there are white iPhones out there, so he replied to take your question seriously. Normally that means: if enough customers ask for it, he will produce it :)

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:59:47 -0000

Dear Ton,

Since that 10 euro is neutral for me, I think it's a good idea to offer such service. Will have a look at it!

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:03:33 -0000

Oh my! Stop scaring me. Yes it does. Have a look at:

http://www.3gjuice.com/report1.pdf
http://www.3gjuice.com/report2.jpg
http://www.3gjuice.com/report3.pdf

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:58:40 -0000

@Michael

And here's what they say themselves.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:52:15 -0000

Li-Polymer it is...

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:11:12 -0000

Inside the backup battery, we use Li-Polymer battery as our power source, which is from BAK. Please be advised Li-polymer is better than Li-Ion. If you want to contact me, just click on MAIL US in the main menu. Or try support@3gjuice.com. Or Searchbistro on Skype. You'll find me.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:29:05 -0000

Thanks Theresa! It feels a little strange to be adressed as a multinational, GIZMODO in The Netherlands had a headline about me 'From newspaper boy to millionaire' :)

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:04:33 -0000

@Menno: 3GJUICE is the cheapest with this specs: $45. The other batteries are 1000 mAh or 1300 mAh, not 1770 mAh. That difference of 70% will make you smile. But thanks anyway, I edited the claim and added' 'the cheapest with this specs' I'm sure when I get some international wholesalers the price will drop. Check also the nice review on http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/...

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:06:31 -0000

@rutger I asked the EVD to have a look at the documents and showed them to some lawyers. So safety first.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:35:07 -0000

@Rutger. Ah, liability. This was for me the main reason to think hard about this adventure. But my lawyer assured me : the product output voltage/current is designed per Apple specification, it will not make damage to your iPhone/ iPod It has only one contact part with the iPhone/ iPod- the connector which is also specifically ordered from Apple's specified vendor (only one vendor, guess that's called monopoly). So there will be no concern for mechanical part either imho.

If there is solid evidence that our product damages your iPhone, I will cover the material cost for the repair. However, we will not be responsible for any mistake of not using our product properly or any damage caused by accident loss (like dropping to the ground, bended, etc.). The usual stuff I guess. Hope I took away some of your theoratical concerns .

Thanks,

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:34:36 -0000

Decision about that will be made in about three/four weeks.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:03:16 -0000

Dear Tanner,

You're so right. I edited the text above and added more details. The battery loads your iPhone and give’s it an extra, full life. If you normally can talk 6 hrs with your phone, now you can talk 12 hours. If you surf for 4 hours, you get another 4 hours. I prefer to use this comparison because claims like 'up to 50 hours extra power' are measured under extreme conditions: all features are off and the 3G radio has to have a great reception. That's not normal, is it?.

It doubles whatever you're doing with it. So if you usually only talk, you can talk twice. If you surf, you can surf again.

You can throw a 3G JUICE in your glove department (put it on OFF), forget it for a whole year and it will still give your iPhone or iPod another life. If you use a loaded battery later then year, you will loose some energy, just like your Duracells.

It's not a li-ion battery but a li-polymer, a next generation.

More info:
http://www.3gjuice.com/report3.pdf
Check also http://www.3gjuice.com/96/

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:37:31 -0000

No decison on white yet.. give me 3-4 weeks (see above)

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:25:26 -0000

Hi Joram,

We decided the 3G JUICE to be a charger of the iPhone battery. This enables you that double life we're raving about on this site all the time. When the battery is turning red, click the 3G JUICE under your 3G/2G iPhone or any 30 pins iPod and you can start smiling again: it charges your iPhone.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:36:24 -0000

The green light shows you that the 3G JUICE is still working. The iPhone shows either in the right upper corner the loading icon when in use, or the big battery (with a green bar) if you start working.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:04:33 -0000

Yes it does. A fully loaded 3G JUICE loads an empty iPhone, by charging it.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:45:41 -0000

Yes we do ship to Canada since 24 hrs. We'll send you a generic hard box with magnet mechanism since we're out of own boxes, sorry. Delivery time is 3 weeks from now since we had a lot of orders lately. Inside the box is an USB-cable to load the 3G JUICE, a simple manual and the 3G JUICE with that great battery from C-BAK.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:48:00 -0000

Thanks for telling Brian. We've got over 100 requests now for a white one, so to ignore that would be insulting :) Looking into it right now!

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:01:09 -0000

Dear Mike,

No, you don't have to use the pack when the phone is empty. I use it myself when the battery is half full, just because it's fun to watch a loaded iPhone.

If iPhone battery is full, but you still turn on the 3GJUICE , the green light will be ON. Which will consume some power of the 3GJUICE - in a very small portion around 10mAh.

Re: 3G JUICE is certified by Apple

henk van ess — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:24:42 -0000

We found a hole in the intergalactic time fabric.

Seriously: the 30 pins connector incl PCB-board is certified for the 3G and 2G, but also for the iPod. So we didn’t do a thing to get certification for the iPod, it was included.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:32:39 -0000

One more question about the white one and we'll repaint the black ones ourselves :)

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:34:55 -0000

No, there is no reason. Please click on the US flag when you live outside Europe for the best price.

We removed Canada because it shouldn't have existed in the first place. No pun intended.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:13:24 -0000

Tnx.. one more white, noted.

Getting rich is not my aim, total world domination is :)

Re: Feedback from customers

henk van ess — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:41 -0000

Dear Martijn,

Because of the Olympic Games export is scrutinized in China and regulations are tightened. You have to wait for 2-3 weeks if you ordered early - you did. Others will get the unit at the end of August. That's not what I planned. So for the next production cycle I will take more batteries in stock. Sorry for that delay.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:33 -0000

You can reload the battery with the included mini-USB cable.

Input voltage: 4.75V-5V
Output max current: 1A

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:40:33 -0000

It's computer only, but with a simple USB-charger you can reload the 3G JUICE from your wall outlet (but if you plan to do that, do you really need 3G JUICE? If you are with an outlet, you can use your iPhone cable).

The USB charger of Apple will do the trick too, but if you don't have one, buy one.

It will set you back another $6.99, http://www.amazon.com/Coby-CA-80-Adapter-Charge...

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:43:40 -0000

It depends on several factors: the temperature, what you do with you iPhone while loading and if you charged the 3G Juice for 100%. We ran several tests with

a. iPhone had 30% energy left
b. 3G Juice was fully loaded
c. temp was 25 celsius

It took 3 hrs to a full charge.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:54:27 -0000

@Miguel: right.. !

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:32:58 -0000

Dear Arvid,

We had an introduction offer where the p&p; was free. That's over now...

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:49:33 -0000

Ty for your order. Nope, it says EX p&p; in very, very small print, lol. We changed it now in bigger print, tnx.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:35:45 -0000

While being charged by 3G JUICE, your iPhone can be used for any operations - calling, listening music, browsing, watching movie, taking picture, etc. So it gives the energy right away.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:42:45 -0000

Hi,

Yes you can sell them on eBay, it's your property. But people are not fond of second hand batteries..so we will sent you six seperate boxes.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:13:59 -0000

Is it safe? The next best smallest battery available (without cables) is only 1200 mAh. Ours has 50% more power. Be assured, the product output voltage/current is designed per Apple specification. It will not damage your iPhone/ iPod. It has only one contact part with the iPhone/ iPod- the connector which is also specifically ordered from Apple’s specified vendor (only one vendor). Is it a battery just attached to a 30 pins connector? No, there is also an integrated circuit built in to avoid power problems.

You can't charge both, can you explain me why you would like to do that?

Canada shipping is $12. I'm delivering backorders right now, most of them will be delivered August 21-24. For newer customers, the delivery date is somewhere in September. That's temporarely. I expect to deliver in 1 week if you order in September.

Re: Smallest Of The Ars Technica Roundup

henk van ess — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:49:44 -0000

Oh yes, we do. There are about 100 customers from Belgium now. P&P; is 7 euro. The direct URL is https://shop.strato.com/epages/61759688.sf/nl_B...

Re: 3G JUICE’s Finally Arrived

henk van ess — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:35:58 -0000

@Freek, Typo! Yes, It was Shenzen! Edited it. Tnx.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:48:05 -0000

Hi James,

We position the 3GJUICE as the strongest clip on battery on the market. The Kensington is good, go buy it. But keep in mind that it's only 1800 mAh and not 2250 as you wrote. See also:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/...

I consider the Kensington big and bulky: it has a connector that is big as the 3G JUICE AND has a plastic black box to power the connector...

I wrote before that I used clunkier batteries,see http://www.3gjuice.com/2008/07/11/who-is-behind...

Here's the text I mean:

I’m always in a quest for battery juice because I travel a lot. Yes, I’m that pathetic person that bought a heavy block of metal so I can work for 9 hours on my Macbook Air. For even smaller devices I bought the Philips Power 2 Go, a piece of plastic (PDF, 256 Kb) that kept my iPhone 1.1.4 alive.

I got tired of loosing cables and have stuff with me that's 5x heavier then the phone I use it for. So that's why I developed the 3G JUICE.

Re: The Waiting Game: Do You Like The 3GJUICE?

henk van ess — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:39:33 -0000

Yours is sent yesterday. Keep us posted.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:55:41 -0000

Unlike other products where power loss occurs when the backup battery is not used for several days or weeks, we have managed to make true shutdown in the circuits. It means that our backup battery can hold power for months if it is not used. If you don't use it for a full year, about 70% juice is still in it.

Re: Oh That Battery!

henk van ess — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:57:31 -0000

Dear Pierre,

The new batch will be finished in the 3th week of September. It's a new model. If you order now, you get it for the same price as the old model. The unit will look exactly the same as the current model, but inside we made a lot of change to boost the efficiency of the battery. Why didn't we come with this model in the first place? It's a product 2.0! You all came with good suggestions which we tried to implement in this model.

The real output needed for you iPhone is normally below 0.9A, so we thought in the first version that a 1A output current was fine. But in reality your iPhone or iPod sometimes wants 0.97A and in some rare cases even more then 1A. The new version has an brand new electronic circuit which is able to deliver 2A output current. Any peaks can easily be taken care of, resulting in a very, very cool battery. With some tweaking in the integrated circuits we managed to boost the efficiency of the battery too. In labtests we got 90% efficiency. Since we live in a real world, we tested it also during office hours, in cars, in planes and other places. The efficiency was still 85-90%. That is a industry record for such small battery.

Also we changed the alignment so you get a perfect horizontal phone and battery. A new integrated circuit will make your 3GJUICE under extreme conditions: -40 - +80 (Celsius). Smaller improvements: no glue used, better fitting cap, new strip, extra overload protection.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:36:33 -0000

Dear Jae,

Thanks for your great input. For the first versions of the 3G JUICE we concentrated on power and stability and the beste energy capacity. We're almost done with that: the next version will be able to power a dead iPhone (0%) to 100% energy, has a energy efficiency of 85% (leave the battery in your glove department for months and it's still fresh) and has the best stability with 2A IC and not 1A IC as almost every other vendor has.

Phase 2 is to get a model with all kind of extra's, most of them described by you. Would love to see that mechanical clip, feel free to send a photo to support@3gjuice.com.

Re: 3G JUICE’s Finally Arrived

henk van ess — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:17:42 -0000

@Richard, it's a little thicker, check http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/... for exact sizes. One customer has very deep pockets and uses the 3GJUICE like you said.In general the 3GJUICE is designed to lay flat on a table, chair, desk, passenger chair or to be hold on your hand while you hold the phone.

I wouldn't recommend using any 30 pins device in a situation with a lot of movement...

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:43:55 -0000

Do you have a link to that hard case or a picture?

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:38:11 -0000

1. No. The only thing you will cover with the 3GJUICE are your energy needs, not your speaker :)
2. The 3GJUICE is a device that you only use for 2,5-3 hrs. After that, your iPhone is loaded for 100%, so you don't need it anymore. If you need to call exactly in those 2,5-3 hrs (with the 3G JUice attached), put your phone in your hand palm (as you would normally do). If you only hold the 3G JUICE, nothing bad will happen, but if you start running at the same time, it's like a candle on a plate. It will fall off.
3. We are Pro Merchant in Amazon. You will get the NEW version at the end of September. We'll dispatch it right from the stores of Amazon through Fedex.

Re: ORDER NEW MODEL NOW: 100% BOOST

henk van ess — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:09 -0000

Dear John,

Currently the first batch of the new version will be produced around September 23th. Transportation to your home can be done in 5 days if you live in the USA or The Netherlands. I can't give you a 100% guarantee because I don't control the courier...

Re: The Waiting Game: Do You Like The 3GJUICE?

henk van ess — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:27:50 -0000

Dear Laurens,

Any 30 pins thingy under your phone is extra, but you don't need to be too afraid about bending the battery if you just hold the phone in your hand and not only the battery. The best way to think of the 3GJUICE is that it's a temporarely device: just use it for 2,5-3 hours and your phone is 100%.

Henk

Re: THE NEW 3GJUICE 2.0: 100% in 3 hours!

henk van ess — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:34:47 -0000

Dear Gabriel,

First of all, thanks again for your purchase. The new version has different IC's and PCB's, resulting in an even better battery efficiency which means that the energy is still fresh after months. Also we changed the form factor slightly. And we tweaked some other things, like the cap that was in some cases a little too tight.

Basically, the old version powers the iPhone from about 20-30 to 100%, the new version goes from 0% to 100%. For people like you, the first customers, we're setting up a special discount for any new purchase.

Re: THE NEW 3GJUICE 2.0: 100% in 3 hours!

henk van ess — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:02:03 -0000

You can load an empty iPhone (dead phone, no battery icon visible yet) to 100% in three hours with 1 3GJUICE. That is what we promise. In most tests, we were able to squeeuze out 20-30% more, so 120-130%. This is the first cableless device for the iPhone 3G that does this. Others, from Solo or Kensington, are 50% less powerfull.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:51:18 -0000

Yes, you can, through Amazon (rank 600 in all Electronics last night). Check
http://www.amazon.com/3G-JUICE-iPhone-Battery-E...

Shipping is 3-5 and is $7

Re: THE NEW 3GJUICE 2.0: 100% in 3 hours!

henk van ess — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:29:40 -0000

The price is 43,95 euro, shipping is 7 euro.

Re: In Search For Power

henk van ess — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:56:40 -0000

Ja, bij de meeste wel. Anders ruilen.

Re: Chris Pirillo is wrong about best pocket video cameras

henk van ess — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:46:21 -0000

Great piece, and I totally agree. Here is one more reason. For my multimedia students, I used VideoCue Pro to make some simple teasers. Last week we worked with both the Kodak and the Flip. The output of the HD Mino could be added in VideoCue Pro without conversion, Kodak had to be converted.. a big disadvantage.