Originally Posted by MrFurious
I was thinking about the iPod solution myself and was looking at getting both accessories as recommended. The only question I have is does the Belkin battery pack recharge the internal battery of the iPod?
Here's what I'm thinking: What does the iPod use first when it's connected, the internal battery or the external battery? And does it actually charge the internal battery? Since the battery pack and that adapter use the same docking port on the bottom of the iPod, I don't want to end up where the iPod's battery is dead and it's running off of the external battery pack and when I try to plug in my reader it won't work.
The CDR solution does make sense though. I've still got some time to look around, however. Thanks for everyone's input because it's helping me think this out.
Well, according to the Belkin manual, it is not supposed to charge the internal ipod battery! Furthermore, upon some investigation on my part, you cannot plug in both accessories simultaneously! My bad!
However, when reading through the comments after a review of the product at
iPod Lounge it seems that if you put the iPod into disk mode, then the external battery pack may charge the internal batteries, though I'm not absolutely certain.
For this solution to work, either Belkin needs to get their act together and make a splitter cable/adapter for the dock connector so that you can connect an external battery pack and the digital camera link simultaneously to the iPod, or hope that there is a way to charge the iPod through the external battery pack (there is a
home made solution here for 1st or 2nd generation ipods that could be adapted through a
pocketdock combo adapter for 3rd and 4th generation iPods). There is also a
solar charger that is available for the iPod, though you will need 8 hours of sunlight to be able to fully charge up an iPod (or so they say). Keep in mind that a data transfer of 500 MB over the digital camera link will take some time, so don't consume too much battery life listening to tunes!