Meh. I grabbed some for hubby. He travels internationally a lot for work, and these might be handy for when he leaves the power bank in the hotel room. Sucks to run out of battery mid-translation. I think he’ll appreciate them for the heartfelt-incredible-pineapple items they are. Maybe.
@AiraCobra Well, the idea is he will keep a couple of these in the small bag of holding he carries everywhere. But yeah, I guess ya never know. I bought the fucking things, my responsibility ends there.
I purchased a powerbank with 10 times the capacity for $12. I have an old 3800 mAH I threw away because it was so weak, this is 1/4 that much power. Why is this a thing.
@laidbackoh It’s a thing because you get to throw it away immediately after it charges your phone a fraction of the way and then can never be used again! Yay?
@Pantheist Wow, I didn’t realize they were not rechargeable. I would not take 100 of these if I was paid $10. I noticed twice as many Iphone purchases, even though there are almost two times as many android users, interesting.
@fredboy I think it is an interesting group-sourced data point in the ongoing Apple vs Android wars, this one relating to battery life. Which group has more power loss anxiety?
You fools, you can only sell these to people desperate for a phone charge… think $10 a pop at a beachside bar, or $10 a pop at a “last gas for 100 miles” station
@medz Exactly what @Pantheist said. Millions of plastic bottles are also fully recyclable yet people continue to throw them in the trash too. If you can remember to bring these crappy little chargers with you, you can remember to charge and carry a real battery pack.
That doesn’t look like a normal Lightning connector and in the photo of it plugged into an iPhone, the iPhone display does not show the battery is charging.
If you didn’t plan ahead for your battery consumption, suddenly you planned ahead that you both purchased these, and put them somewhere that you can access them, dead phone in hand? Likely the same bag that holds these also holds a wall charger and cord. Or a real portable power bank. Oh wait, I can throw these out after? Sweet!
@canuk reconsidering now that I noticed they dropped one vowel from their name. Seems trendier now. Also I’m from 2005 and I’m going to tell people about this using this new tool called twttr.com
Once bedded a gal who had panties that said “Friday” in little script embroidery across the front. Might 'ave been cute, but I took her out on a Sunday night . . .
I just like the sponsored ad before you log in was for an all natural feeling latexmatress. Just want to be clear on this Meh - you’re saying if I plug the sticky out thingy into the recessed iny hole thingy that this isn’t a condom wrapper? Are you sure?
/image condom wrapper
/giphy five year shelf life
If these had a solar power on the backside and u can recharge after use it will be cool! But one time use?! No thanks! So not environmentally friendly. SMH MEH!
Anyone else notice the 5 year shelf life, but only 30 day warranty? These are for “emergency use”. I could see maybe tossing them in a bug out bag. A Li-ion battery only holds onto it’s charge for a few months, not years. But it would suck 3 years from now to find out you had 3 from a bad batch.
This little product has a capacity of 1,000 mah. Most people don’t know what “mah” means. So here’s what it means. It means that 1,000 is close to useless. One quick phone call if you’re lucky.
I’ve owned several rechargeable battery packs. 2,000 mah was a useless joke. Then I found one that was 4,000. That provides about one charge. It weighs 5.78 ounces. It recharges easily. I think it was five bucks.
@JohnSchubert The typical battery inside a smartphone is less than 2000mAh, so even with say, 50% charging efficiency, this should certainly meet the battery life claims.
A lot of rechargeable battery packs do not actually have the useful capacity advertised.
@trisk – I don’t dispute your numbers, but I’m reporting my own experience with all those battery packs and my old iPhone 4S. I probably did exaggerate a bit in my post above, but the point is that I’d only count on the 1,000 mwh for that one phone call – as opposed to running the GPS for an hour or two, as other posters have discussed in their tales of woe.
When I saw these I hoped they had some kind of novel, less corrosive battery chemistry akin to say, disposable hand warmers, since they don’t have to be as energy dense as typical batteries. Judging from the description they’re probably just regular alkalines.
Are you the kind of person who sets their watch 10 minutes ahead so you won’t be late?
Or who can resist a box of chocolates until they are opened, at which point they are instantly gobbled?
Or who uses a full-screen text editor to prevent themselves from being distracted by all the other crap going on with your computer?
Or who needs a Faraday cage in their car to keep themselves from using the phone while driving?
The human brain is a funny thing. (I often laugh at the way other people’s brains work.)
This is the phone charger power pack equivalent. I have hundreds of thousands of those rechargeables. When I need one, they are either dead or sitting on a charger at my house. You know, because I used them already. The wrapper and the single-use nature (and the expense, I guess) of these is just the Father/Mother’s-little-helper that some people need.
Also, I never kept a condom in my wallet because … ick!
Might be a good marketing give-away if you could print a logo and URL on them! But have to buy in bulk at a sensible price and figure a way to print on them cheaply.
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Options
Android
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Android again
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$15 (for 3) at Amazon
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why!
/image huge fucking waste. get out of here.
Seriously, this is woot level useless overpriced crap
what a stupid invention. I’ll stick with a powerbank, thanks. you guys sell them about as cheap.
Throw in a free micro USB to USB C.
Why no USB-C? That’s the norm now.
@infernohit it’s far from the norm. O_o
@jbartus
It will be in less than a year.
@infernohit with some exceptions…
@infernohit My Windows Phone Lumia 950 has USB-C. What other phones do?
@Stumpy91 Lg G5 and LG G6
@Stumpy91 Google phones since Nexus 5X? Pixel, anyone?
@notyoutoo pixel is USB-c
@Stumpy91 newer Samsungs
@infernohit Nintendo Switch uses it.
charge -/ watt an idea –
Disposable batteries in 2017. Nope!
1000mah… <1/3 charge. No thanks.
@rmeden – you nailed it. Most people have no idea what “mah” means.
@JohnSchubert isn’t that the person we are celebrating tomorrow?
@ConAndLibrarian I’m so literal minded – I was thinking milli amp hours.
@JohnSchubert what else would it mean?
These are a $1 apiece impulse buy. I’m out.
@DaveInSoCal These are $3 a piece.
@mike808 hence being out and not in
Won’t work on the new Samsung phone
Great write-up!
/giphy sex sells
cuz these ain’t gonna sell themselves
No.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_36_0?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A2335752011%2Cn%3A2407755011%2Cn%3A2407758011%2Cn%3A7073960011%2Ck%3Abackup+usb+battery%2Cp_72%3A2661618011%2Cp_36%3A2491155011&keywords=backup+usb+battery&ie=UTF8&qid=1494648198&rnid=2491154011
@Pantheist You saved me with your link
@fredboy
/youtube snap I’ve got the power
And folks, YOU’LL have the “powr” when you pick up a set of these Powrtabs Emergency Chargers! Don’t delay! Supplies are limited!
Emergency chargers
Electronic ravioli beats captcha to find out if you’re a robot.
Meh… environmentally irresponsible.
@stjohns not as bad as the polti coffee pods and maker. Those things had seven boxes, on top of the shit pods
The ravioli picture may be one of my all time favorites. Hilarious.
@Rosstafari We sauce it too.
Meh. I grabbed some for hubby. He travels internationally a lot for work, and these might be handy for when he leaves the power bank in the hotel room. Sucks to run out of battery mid-translation. I think he’ll appreciate them for the heartfelt-incredible-pineapple items they are. Maybe.
@Pony Right until he forget these in his luggage
@AiraCobra Well, the idea is he will keep a couple of these in the small bag of holding he carries everywhere. But yeah, I guess ya never know. I bought the fucking things, my responsibility ends there.
I’ll stick with the Violife Powerbanks with fans. Those were $6 for two and each battery was 2600 mAh.
2600 > 1000.
I purchased a powerbank with 10 times the capacity for $12. I have an old 3800 mAH I threw away because it was so weak, this is 1/4 that much power. Why is this a thing.
@laidbackoh It’s a thing because you get to throw it away immediately after it charges your phone a fraction of the way and then can never be used again! Yay?
@Pantheist Wow, I didn’t realize they were not rechargeable. I would not take 100 of these if I was paid $10. I noticed twice as many Iphone purchases, even though there are almost two times as many android users, interesting.
@laidbackoh Speaks volumes to the intelligence of iPhone vs Android users!
@fredboy I think it is an interesting group-sourced data point in the ongoing Apple vs Android wars, this one relating to battery life. Which group has more power loss anxiety?
Why? Seriously what’s up with the garbage lately Meh?
@Furbdog well the site is called meh. So aren’t they really just living up to that name?
@Furbdog They’re getting ready to sell me a really sweet knife! They offer crap like this to make it all the more special.
@dnh127 They should call it bleh
You fools, you can only sell these to people desperate for a phone charge… think $10 a pop at a beachside bar, or $10 a pop at a “last gas for 100 miles” station
@thismyusername haha all I could think was
/giphy fly you fools
@kus yeah that’s not the right gif
/giphy fly you fools
@kus
sigh
@kus that would work better to charge my phone than those stupid little chargabes ever could. Those things weren’/t even worth the price of postage.
Absolutely Not!
It’s a great price for these. Meh, I have no use for them. I found a way to save even more money on them. I simply did not order any.
/meme --template bad --top “your deal is bad” --bottom “and you should feel bad”
No USB-C? Meh.
I’m actually a bit insulted that some buyer thought these environmental nightmares were worthy of buying.
@cinoclav 100 percent recyclable
@medz reusable > recyclable. Not to mention most people will just chuck em in the trash anyway.
@medz Exactly what @Pantheist said. Millions of plastic bottles are also fully recyclable yet people continue to throw them in the trash too. If you can remember to bring these crappy little chargers with you, you can remember to charge and carry a real battery pack.
So this is a single use battery pack? I’ve heard of some bad ideas before…
@MarkusdD Alkaline batteries are single use, except for some that meh sells, which were zero use.
That doesn’t look like a normal Lightning connector and in the photo of it plugged into an iPhone, the iPhone display does not show the battery is charging.
If you didn’t plan ahead for your battery consumption, suddenly you planned ahead that you both purchased these, and put them somewhere that you can access them, dead phone in hand? Likely the same bag that holds these also holds a wall charger and cord. Or a real portable power bank. Oh wait, I can throw these out after? Sweet!
@canuk reconsidering now that I noticed they dropped one vowel from their name. Seems trendier now. Also I’m from 2005 and I’m going to tell people about this using this new tool called twttr.com
@somf69 ?
“Both can only be used once.”
Says who? Aren’t condoms just like underwear – turn them inside out when you need a fresh set?
@phendrick And then rotate them front to back.
Once bedded a gal who had panties that said “Friday” in little script embroidery across the front. Might 'ave been cute, but I took her out on a Sunday night . . .
@rpstrong Did she stay the week?
@rpstrong I both want to know and don’t want to know about the logic of rotating condoms from front to back.
@Pantheist Was that rotating them front to back, or using them front to back? (More things that you don’t want to know.)
Fast forward 3 years … open one, it’s dead now what return it to who?
@mellowirishgent Would you really be worried about $3?
@fredboy Will the US dollar even still be a thing?
@fredboy 3 or 30 not the point you never know if they work until you use it which could be years later if they had indicator lights i would buy
I just like the sponsored ad before you log in was for an all natural feeling latexmatress. Just want to be clear on this Meh - you’re saying if I plug the sticky out thingy into the recessed iny hole thingy that this isn’t a condom wrapper? Are you sure?
/image condom wrapper
/giphy five year shelf life
Damn it! It put up the wrong one! I’m still trying to figure out how to post a picture I have saved. But, on the other hand proves my point on men…
Suddenly, that VMP Last Call looks a lot more tempting
If these had a solar power on the backside and u can recharge after use it will be cool! But one time use?! No thanks! So not environmentally friendly. SMH MEH!
Anyone else notice the 5 year shelf life, but only 30 day warranty? These are for “emergency use”. I could see maybe tossing them in a bug out bag. A Li-ion battery only holds onto it’s charge for a few months, not years. But it would suck 3 years from now to find out you had 3 from a bad batch.
Hard meh.
This little product has a capacity of 1,000 mah. Most people don’t know what “mah” means. So here’s what it means. It means that 1,000 is close to useless. One quick phone call if you’re lucky.
I’ve owned several rechargeable battery packs. 2,000 mah was a useless joke. Then I found one that was 4,000. That provides about one charge. It weighs 5.78 ounces. It recharges easily. I think it was five bucks.
@JohnSchubert The typical battery inside a smartphone is less than 2000mAh, so even with say, 50% charging efficiency, this should certainly meet the battery life claims.
A lot of rechargeable battery packs do not actually have the useful capacity advertised.
@trisk – I don’t dispute your numbers, but I’m reporting my own experience with all those battery packs and my old iPhone 4S. I probably did exaggerate a bit in my post above, but the point is that I’d only count on the 1,000 mwh for that one phone call – as opposed to running the GPS for an hour or two, as other posters have discussed in their tales of woe.
When I saw these I hoped they had some kind of novel, less corrosive battery chemistry akin to say, disposable hand warmers, since they don’t have to be as energy dense as typical batteries. Judging from the description they’re probably just regular alkalines.
Great choice to stockpile for your One-Percenter doomsday bunker though.
Good batteries for emergency use are lithium primary cells, which have a 10 year shelf life. Here’s one that uses a standard CR123A lithium primary cell (which is replaceable): https://www.amazon.com/Rayovac-Emergency-Charger-Included-PS72-BT6/dp/B00D2ZQ6Q2
Or take a chance on unbranded alkaline batteries being dumped by meh. Wait, didn’t we try this already?
Are these the mint-flavored ones?
These are great for a hurricane prep kit. We live in So Fla and with a 5 yr shelf life it’s not a bad idea.
@Shay when Matthew was threatening, I charged all my power banks. One of my power banks equaled twelve of these things.
Are you the kind of person who sets their watch 10 minutes ahead so you won’t be late?
Or who can resist a box of chocolates until they are opened, at which point they are instantly gobbled?
Or who uses a full-screen text editor to prevent themselves from being distracted by all the other crap going on with your computer?
Or who needs a Faraday cage in their car to keep themselves from using the phone while driving?
The human brain is a funny thing. (I often laugh at the way other people’s brains work.)
This is the phone charger power pack equivalent. I have hundreds of thousands of those rechargeables. When I need one, they are either dead or sitting on a charger at my house. You know, because I used them already. The wrapper and the single-use nature (and the expense, I guess) of these is just the Father/Mother’s-little-helper that some people need.
Also, I never kept a condom in my wallet because … ick!
Might be a good marketing give-away if you could print a logo and URL on them! But have to buy in bulk at a sensible price and figure a way to print on them cheaply.
A much better option.
These are actually really great for converting electricity directly into garbage.
And if you order one kind…they send the other kind (facepalm)
@kathleen1966 Yep, me too. Mine showed up today; asked for Android, got iPhone.
I’d take a Fukobukuro in it’s place…have yet to get one…