"Barry L. Bond" <barry@barrycon.cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>I don't get this separate battery charger idea, specifically when you
>>mention the phones being mainly for "emergency purposes".
>
> Well, while they're for "emergency purposes", we both do use our
> phones at least once a month, according to ecallplus.com requirements.
>
> (My mother calls her sister, who lives in Cincinnati, OH, because
> it's really not "long distance" via the cell phones, but it is from our
> landline phone.)
>
> And, my mother uses her vehicle so little, charging her phone in her
> vehicle would seriously take a while! She only goes one place, once a
> week, and she's typically there within ten minutes. And, on the weekend,
> it's used, briefly. We typically go a couple places, on the weekend.
>
> Now, it would be quite possible for me! I have about a 1 hour and
> ten minute, one way, commute to where I work. So, I am driving my car
> about two and a half hours every work day. :-)
>
> It may be "habit"... we both like the idea of being able to charge
> our spare phone batteries in the A/C house chargers we have, for our
> current Nokia batteries.
>
> Barry
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I was not clear no my point. Of course one should have an AC charger at
home. The car charger might not be needed.

But I thought you wanted to be able to charge a spare battery in a separate
battery stand, without the phone at all.
This was common in the early days when the battery hardly lasted for a day,
even if the phone was not used for calls. The second battery could be
charged while the phone was used with another battery. Now with modern
phones it should be quite sufficient even if the battery can only be charged
when it is installed on the phone.

A table stand for the phone may be handy too, but this is not what I was
assuming you were after. Perhaps I misunderstood your interest for a
standalone battery charger (one that would be independent of the phone).