Speaking of car chargers...

[Guest dwallersv]

I absolutely loathe coiled wires for things like car chargers for phones. They are completely useless as a means to manage a long wire, because the plug will pull out of the phone well before you've even stretched the damn thing 10%. I think the idiots back in R&D that think this is just a boffo solution to cable management in the car should be taken out and shot. Might aswell just have a wire the same length as the coiley when it's coiled up.

Better is a straight, long cable, but that creates cable management issues in a small space like the inside of a car. Best of all is what I found, and bought, below:

Got it for $13 at DayDeal.com. Here's the link. It is absolutely AWESOME!!! I can make it whatever length I need in order to easily maneuver my phone while charging, get it out of the way when I'm not using it, and the sire is really thin and flexible -- nice nice nice! I would have paid twice what I did for it.

If you have the same issues with these stupod coiled car chargers, check it out and get one. You will not be disappointed.

[Guest baaadandy]

I absolutely loathe coiled wires for things like car chargers for phones. They are completely useless as a means to manage a long wire, because the plug will pull out of the phone well before you've even stretched the damn thing 10%. I think the idiots back in R&D that think this is just a boffo solution to cable management in the car should be taken out and shot. Might aswell just have a wire the same length as the coiley when it's coiled up.

Better is a straight, long cable, but that creates cable management issues in a small space like the inside of a car. Best of all is what I found, and bought, below:

Got it for $13 at DayDeal.com. Here's the link. It is absolutely AWESOME!!! I can make it whatever length I need in order to easily maneuver my phone while charging, get it out of the way when I'm not using it, and the sire is really thin and flexible -- nice nice nice! I would have paid twice what I did for it.

If you have the same issues with these stupod coiled car chargers, check it out and get one. You will not be disappointed.

:( Great find! Can you tell me which direction the wire exits the plug if the phone was flat on a desk? I'm trying to find a right-angle plug that will work in the car with the included splitter. Thanks!

[Guest dwallersv]

:( Great find! Can you tell me which direction the wire exits the plug if the phone was flat on a desk? I'm trying to find a right-angle plug that will work in the car with the included splitter. Thanks!

Probably good news... the item I recieved is slightly different than the photo on the site -- the phone plug is straight, not angled like in the picture. The other difference is that the retraction button (seen in the picture as silver near the plug/wire opening) is black.

Other than that, it's identical. I'm guessing it's an updated, later design, probably because of complaints about that angled plug.

[Guest Quang05BlkBoxsterS n Omnia]

I got a similar one with a cool bright deep LED blue indicator that lid up the car audio center :( , the best car phone charger I got (forget about other piece of junk ones) since I owned the first cell phone.

[Guest Dendy]

Hi, does it charge the omnia even if it is using gps (navigation software), because there are some known isues, that when is omnia on gps in the car, it consumes more energy than it is supplied from car charger. Or actually all the chargers charge for a little time only and when the temperature of the phone goes higher it stops charging and then the battery drains in 1 hour on gps..

Thanks for answer.

[Guest dwallersv]

Hi, does it charge the omnia even if it is using gps (navigation software), because there are some known isues, that when is omnia on gps in the car, it consumes more energy than it is supplied from car charger. Or actually all the chargers charge for a little time only and when the temperature of the phone goes higher it stops charging and then the battery drains in 1 hour on gps..

Thanks for answer.

Don't know, and won't until Verizon releases the new firmware with the GPS unlocked.

However, for grins I tried to simulate as heavy a power situation as I could without the GPS to check it out for you. Here's the situation I tried:

• Coreplayer showing a full-screen, down-scaling video
  
• Audio playing over Blutooth
  
• iGO8 running minimized, recieving GPS data from my external GPS
  
• Wifi on, and connected to my home network (I was parked in the driveway), downloading a file via HTTP in Opera
  
• Downloading a large (1GB) file via FTP (Resco Explorer) over EvDO
  

The phone still charged -- i.e. increased in battery charge -- although much much more slowly than without all this junk running. Since I'm usually driving when using the car charger, this is a very unrealistic scenario. I also expect that having all the radios blasting away in the phone is more power-intensive than the GPS is.

[Guest Dendy]

Don't know, and won't until Verizon releases the new firmware with the GPS unlocked.

However, for grins I tried to simulate as heavy a power situation as I could without the GPS to check it out for you. Here's the situation I tried:

• Coreplayer showing a full-screen, down-scaling video
  
• Audio playing over Blutooth
  
• iGO8 running minimized, recieving GPS data from my external GPS
  
• Wifi on, and connected to my home network (I was parked in the driveway), downloading a file via HTTP in Opera
  
• Downloading a large (1GB) file via FTP (Resco Explorer) over EvDO
  

The phone still charged -- i.e. increased in battery charge -- although much much more slowly than without all this junk running. Since I'm usually driving when using the car charger, this is a very unrealistic scenario. I also expect that having all the radios blasting away in the phone is more power-intensive than the GPS is.

wow B) Thanks for that. I appreciate. But I dont know if all the running apps were highering the temperature of the phone or not, but IGO probbably should. Because maybe the high temperature is the reason for stoping the charger from charging. So I dont know how long you have been trying this research :( but whenever you get a chance to try the IGO or some other software using GPS on a longer ride so the phone can heat up (after an hour at least), than check if it is still charging or not. Because when the phone is cold it charges normaly even with my original charger that I recieved in package with my omnia. But after an hour it refuses to charge and omnia is going to dye in 1 other hour, so it is imposible to use it as a navigation hardware on longer rides.

Thanks again and appreciate ones more, tahnks.