My Car Set-Up

just wanted to quickly share with you my car set-up of both my TomTom and iPhone sipping energon from a Belkin Dual USB charger.

what's really impressive is how fast the Belkin's QuickCharge USB port juices up my iPhone. during the course of a 40 minute drive the charger brought my iPhone's battery from 30% to near 60%.

it comes included with two USB cables; one with an iPod dock connector, the other with a mini USB. the iPod dock cable is of a thicker gauge. i'm guessing this is because the QuickCharge USB port provides a higher amount of current. it's also a fully functioning data cable so you can plug this into your Mac or PC.

the competing charger i almost got was Griffin's PowerJolt Dual Universal. but i much prefer Belkin's design approach with the USB ports off to the side.

now i can operate both devices and keep them charged. though, i am very impressed with my iPhone's GPS functionality, i still prefer the accuracy of my TomTom. also the iPhone currently lacks the ability of multi-tasking with third-party apps like Pandora or Slacker Radio while using Maps. so with this setup i can have both. plus i just found a neat way to integrate my TomTom into my car's dashboard. no worry's; it's only covering up the RPM gauge. besides, who really pays attention to that?

the only thing not pictured here is Griffin's DirectDeck Universal Cassette Adapter which was running within my cassette deck at the time.

peace,
@riel