Nokia DC-8 Extra Power Review

I'm a bit of a Nokia fanboy and have been purchasing a few accessories for my phones over the past few weeks. For anyone that's interested I'll be posting some reviews of them. First up is the DC-8 Extra Power charger.

The Nokia DC-8 charger is a lipstick-sized charger that you can use to boost or recharge your Nokia phone on the go. The DC-8 uses AA batteries as the source of power which means that you if you run out of power you can buy a pack of regular batteries to recharge your phone.

So far I've used it to charge my Nokia N95 8GB from almost empty to full. The battery I used in the DC-8 was an Energiser 2500mAh rechargeable which I thought would be able to recharge the the phone fully. The battery was able to recharge it to around 2/3 of full power before I had to use change the battery. However, the DC-8 did recharge the phone as quick as a regular charger.

One feature I would have liked would have been some sort of indicator of how much power is left in the AA battery. Also, according to the instructions, if you use rechargeable AA batteries you can recharge the battery in the DC-8 using a standard Nokia charger. I did leave a battery on charge for around 10-12 hours but the indicator light was still red so I'm not sure how long it takes to recharge or if it was actually working.

The DC-8 is a great way of either recharging your phone or giving it some extra juice on the go and is reasonably priced.