YAY! I just received a registered mail package this morning. Opened it and found my new portable mobile phone charger.

I bought this charger from Deal.com.sg at S$39.90 last month, when local company Andino Holdings launched their new product, the Andino PowerPlus™ Xtreme 5000mAh. Nearly 1000 people in Singapore grabbed the deal over the few days it was running.

To me, it was a good deal, at S$39.90 what more with the S$18 in Deal credits that I had. I was considering buying the Sanyo Eneloop Mobile Booster, which was being sold on eBay for $65 but hey, this is half the price!

With the Andino charger rated 5000mAh, and my Nexus S being 1500 mAh, this means I can get at least 3 full recharges with this device. Pretty awesome.

My only gripe is that it didn’t come with a micro USB cable (which they said would be included), which my phone uses. Gonna write in to the company to ask about it; hope they can send me a micro USB head! Currently using my own cable with the charger.

Oh yes, and the device is pretty light too, at 140g. The surface is glossy and a total magnet for fingerprints, but that’s okay.

It has 2 USB ports, as you can see from the image below.

I’m currently using a 3-pin power plug with a USB connector to charge up this thing.

Anyway, I read that Andino is going to have another sale for this item soon on Deal.com.sg, so if you want to sign up for a Deal account and keep a look out, please use my referral link.

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A word of caution: Beware of what you buy. Do not buy fromDealshop.com.sg or any other deal sites that do not list Andino Holdings as the merchant, cos Andino has already declared that the pics and text of the ad was copied from theirs, but the product is not theirs. Weird eh. I wonder who the 11 people who bought were. I guess they might have gotten scammed.